BoingBoing is hosting Charles Platt (the MAKE Magazine editor, novelist, and Wired contributor) as a guest blogger beginning today. Platt starts his first post with the declaration that he will be asking questions about climate and climate change "[a]t the risk of stimulating outrage". He is most certainly going to do that.

Many feel that recent warming is just a cyclical recovery from a “little ice age” and may have little to do with human activity. Some conjecture that we are already starting to descend into a new cooling period which will be far more difficult to deal with than warming. Whether they’re right or wrong is debatable; the point is that a debate does exist, and those on the skeptical side should not be ignored, ridiculed, smeared, or threatened with career damage.

Platt does at least one thing here that surprises me: he establishes that there is a significant number of credible scientific authorities who continue to question whether or not the global increase in temperature is man-made. I like seeing sacred cows challenged, even when they're my own. Platt's posts so far:

• Climatic Heresey: 1

• Climatic Heresey: 2

• Climatic Heresey: 3

• Climatic Heresey: 4

Shortly after these posts, regular BoingBoing blogger Cory Doctorow posted a series of rebuttals.

• Top independent, peer-reviewed research indicating that climate change is real, deadly, and caused by humans
  

• Does the Medieval Warm Period mean that climate change isn't real, dangerous and caused by humans? (no)

• Understanding the economics of climate change mitigation

• American Institute of Physics' history of the science of climate change

I'm very curious to see where this goes.

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