Unfortunately, most of those who call themselves skeptics, espcially those who blather on and on about the end of global warming while swallowing the most ludicrous ideas hook line and sinker, would be better described
as fake skeptics.
Tamino has just now shown that RATPAC balloon thermometer data of the lower troposphere does not support a «pause» in warming over the past 18 years
as fake skeptics claim RSS data do.
The point is that focusing on temperatures over the past decade (
as the fake skeptics constantly do) is pointless to begin with, and that we should be examining longer, statistically significant trends.
Vaughn, instead of an EXTREME Warmist; you are starting to sound
as a Fake Skeptic (as inbedded Warmist in the Skeptic's camp) What did they do to you; did they promise you more rip - off money — or are you starting to run with one leg on each side of a barbed wire fence... will get even more painful!!!
Not exact matches
McCarthy,
as she always does, went big all night in the host's chair, whether mocking science deniers (and beating up Jennifer Aniston) in a
fake ad for gravity
skeptics, yelling at Kimmel's sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez for not dressing up in silly costumes with her
as had been supposedly decided, or dutifully greeting her three guests in a succession of said costumes.
The apparent great Arctic sea ice refreeze
as some «
fake skeptics» put it, is bunk.
Dad would come home from a conference reporting that yet another scientist was fuming about being misrepresented
as being a
fake skeptic, when they were nothing of the sort.
As a reminder, the study purported to link
skeptics with belief in odd conspiracy theories, particularly the theory that the Apollo 11 landings were
faked (a conclusion highlighted in the title of the press release).
All skeptical arguments are OK,
as long
as they are TRUE
skeptics, not the
fake skeptics that exists on a sliding scale such
as Myr *.
If this is the best today's climate
fake skeptics can do, perhaps,
as Patrick Michaels suggests, they are losing the battle.
AGW's present themselves
as «the
skeptics», but both groups have the same basic
fake fisics; AGW's say «we're not disputing that carbon dioxide heats the Earth, we're disputing the amount of warming this is causing».
The U.S. and the Saudis, to be sure, hold prominent positions, and just behind them are the rest of the usual suspects: ExxonMobil lobbyists, the American Enterprise Institute, The International Chamber of Commerce (whom journalists complain is so predictable
as to be boring, and therefore useless), the
skeptics - cum - denialists, the anonymous scum who distributed counterfeit editions of NGO newsletters (they weren't, actually, very funny) and
fake - byline flyers ridiculing the third - world victims of climate change (you have to see them to believe them).
The
skeptic world is all made up fantasy and the
skeptics living in it even go so far
as to describe everything else
fake.
As the former Editor of DeSmogBlog, most of the climate deniers and self - proclaimed skeptics I have encountered over the years have been paid by Exxon, the Koch brothers or other such industry interests, making a good living as fake experts for hir
As the former Editor of DeSmogBlog, most of the climate deniers and self - proclaimed
skeptics I have encountered over the years have been paid by Exxon, the Koch brothers or other such industry interests, making a good living
as fake experts for hir
as fake experts for hire.
It is
as nonsensical and unscientific
as the other kookie phrase from
fake -
skeptics - «the globe is cooling my friends.»
I haven't read the entire report, so perhaps discussion of these consequences is scattered all over the place (probably in WG II, I'm sure some
fake skeptic hero will leak that one too
as soon
as attention dies down).
One of the reasons I come here is to continue to educate myself, and I find that moderation is exactly
as stated — gentle, patient, and sticking to science until the commenter begins to be more obvious, if less genuine, in spouting the party line in the
fake skeptic movement.
This linguistic convention is very standard, and is why
fake «
skeptics» had no difficulty in interpreting the survey exactly
as I do until it became rhetorically convenient to suggest another (unwarranted) interpretation.