Monday, May 08, 2006

Myths of the History of Ozone Policy


One of the sites I monitor regularly is the Prometheus blog run by Roger Pielke and his colleagues at the Colorado Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. I quite often find myself in disagreement but the posts are always well written and provoke thought -- two admirable qualities for a blog. Often the postbacks (the discussion by readers) are a lot of fun and very illuminating. Sadly, a few readers seem to sit on the site and a lot of discussion ends up re-hashing old (personal) debates but within the rhetoric are the core features present in most "discussions" of ecomyths, and their genesis is in the 5 questions Pielke poses about ozone and the popular perception surrounding its "management", see:

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/
archives/environment/000810myths_of_the_history.html