A tale of two interviews

This has been an open tab in Firefox for a long time now, so I figure I had better just point people to it and be done with it...

James Hrynyshyn (love that last name, but only because computers have copy and paste!) has an interesting comparison of two interviews on Island of Doubt (note to self: add this to the blogroll). The first is Gavin Schmidt of RealClimate fame (oh yeah, he also works for some outfit called NASA GISS or something) being interviewed at Salon a few weeks ago. The second is an interview with Freeman Dyson on Yale's Environment 360.

Go have a look for some excerpts and commentary.

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