Skeptics have long cited Doran's research to show that global warming is a flawed theory motivated
by alarmist scientists more interested in scaring up huge research grants than in pursuing the evidence with honesty and integrity.
Not exact matches
Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers
by coming across as
alarmist.
Ebell has fought against climate policies for years, and he often suggests that climate
scientists are working to advance their careers
by promoting
alarmist research that exaggerates the pace of climbing temperatures.
That Stephen Schneider was a good friend and close colleague to Paul Ehrlich, the most outrageous, careless, and unrepentant
scientist -
alarmist in recent history only reinforces my opinion that Schneider was untrustworty, and, frankly
by contamination, any
scientists who rise to Schneider's defense on this point.
I am regularly questioned
by folks as to whether the
scientists leading the «
alarmist view» (as they call it) are hiding key data.
, a consensus branded «
alarmist»
by Dan H who considers the IPCC as being unrepresentitive of most
scientists.
Then it ends
by quoting Winston Churchill in a way that's meant to group the furthest - out global - warming
alarmist with the likes of RC and other responsible
scientists: «A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.»
Anyone interested in the present and recent RealClimate postings will likely want to visit the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com today, where there's a link to an op - ed
by MIT's Richard Lindzen that's headlined this way: «FREE INQUIRY: Climate of Fear: Global - warming
alarmists intimidate dissenting
scientists into silence.»
Despite his evident lack of skill to evaluate the multiple lines of evidence accumulated
by 2 centuries of climate science, DDS has made it clear he believes the lopsided consensus of working climate
scientists is «
alarmist».
However keen you may be to demonstrate my arguments are misleading, I am afraid to report I am simply a
scientist who feels stongly about protecting our natural environment, and who agrees global warming is a potential risk, but yet who remains unconvinced
by the generally
alarmist claims that the end of the world is nigh.
Note that the first few of the links below are to blog posts written
by concerned climate
scientists, whom the climate change denialists call «
alarmists.»
Matt Ridley has his book The Rational Optimist fact - checked
by five warmist
scientists, including our own
alarmist, Ove Hoegh - Guldberg.
The relationship is not perfect but it represents a significant improvement over the incredibly lame human - CO2 and global warming / climate change relationship claimed
by the IPCC's anti-CO2 Climategate
scientists and
alarmists.
The organization, which argues that the consequences of climate change have been exaggerated
by alarmists, is also defending itself in a defamation lawsuit brought
by a prominent climate
scientist.
This empirical science published
by NASA is undeniable, and most
alarmist scientists accept, although grudgingly - the relationship between changes in atmospheric CO2 levels and changes in temperature are, at best, significantly lame weak.
(
By the way, it is not at all unusual for mainstream
alarmist scientists to use this same feedback formula as a useful though imperfect abstraction, for example in Gerard H. Roe and Marcia B. Baker, «Why Is Climate Sensitivity So Unpredictable?»
After all, with little to no funding, virtually barred from science journals, unable to access the mountains of grant money enjoyed
by the
alarmists, and almost completely ignored
by the mainstream media, somehow we've gotten our skeptic ideation to actually seep into the minds of
scientists.
There are now several studies that highlight this tendency
by scientists to avoid highlighting risks, lest they be seen as «
alarmist.»
Thus, when
scientists are stereotyped as «
alarmists», a predicted response would be for them to try to avoid seeming
alarmist by downplaying the degree of threat.
The central idea of the article is a vicious feedback loop:
Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous statements = > Advocates and media translate statements into alarmist declarations = > Politicians respond to alarm by feeding scientists more money = > [a larger number of scientists and pseudo --RSB- Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] sta
Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous statements = > Advocates and media translate statements into
alarmist declarations = > Politicians respond to alarm
by feeding
scientists more money = > [a larger number of scientists and pseudo --RSB- Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] sta
scientists more money = > [a larger number of
scientists and pseudo --RSB- Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] sta
scientists and pseudo --RSB-
Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] sta
Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] statements...
A group of NAS members led
by Stanford Professor Stephen H. Schneider, who has long been the
alarmist scientists» chief political organizer and strategist, asked Cicerone for the study.
Alarmist bedwetting
by scientists over sea level rise proving to have been needless.
Yet because he rejects the
alarmist scenarios touted
by the media and
alarmist IPCC
scientists, the Swedish professor has long been the target of vicious attack campaigns aimed at discrediting him — yet to little effect.
Whatever one's position on the science, it's is indisputable that
by now there are plentiful inducements for
scientists to maintain an
alarmist bias.
Hopefully the majority of
scientists will at some point also realise that
by their silence, they endorse Climategate and the various other
alarmist frauds.
Their lack of understanding of the other essential skills has been demonstrated repeatedly
by the
alarmists (including the advocacy climate
scientists) who post on Climate Etc..
As the resident expert on losing the debate, and the most ideological commenter here
by far, I should remind joelshore that the only reason
alarmist scientists are colluding to exclude skeptics [and they certainly are, as shown in the Climategate emails], is due to the immense amounts of taxpayer loot handed out.
As a recent study from the University of Bristol documented, climate
scientists have been so distracted and intimidated
by the relentless campaign against them that they tend to avoid any statements that might get them labeled «
alarmists,» retreating into a world of charts and data.
Consensus is irrelevant as all
scientists should know however, it has been clearly assessed
by Von Storche etc, that the relationship between
alarmists, the media and consensus in the unqualified dogma of the masses, is a self perpetuating myth.
Meanwhile, the
scientists who could reveal the truth are all co-conspirators; they suppress results that don't support
alarmist conclusions because they, too, are part of the «politico - legal - media complex,» or «P.L.M.» The P.L.M. wants to control free - thinking Americans
by keeping them in a perpetual «state of fear.»
By Ed Caryl The Washington Post just published an
alarmist article titled: Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and
scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why.
That shock will be felt most especially
by the world's climate
alarmist Establishment, whose
scientists and learned institutions have staked their reputation on the idea that CO2, not solar activity, is the prime driver of climate and that the planet is on a warming trend not a cooling one.
Prior to speaking to the above chart, Bob points out a flagrant propaganda ploy used
by establishment climate -
alarmist scientists, and the IPCC, which is never challenged
by the MSM press (to paraphrase):»
In retrospect this is a little ironic — for it is guilty of the very crime it accuses the «
alarmists» of perpetrating — unsupported, biased views of climate change science which distort any kind of balanced analysis being undertaken
by focusing exclusively on the suggested polarity of existing climate change debate — «
scientists» v deniers.
[O] ne possible reason why
scientists may have underestimated the threat of anthropogenic warming is the fear that if they don't, they will be accused
by contrarians (as was Schneider) of being
alarmist fear - mongers.
Now compound this massive propaganda failure
by the anti-growth Democrats with this week's latest climate science news from the world's premier science journal and a leading global warming
alarmist scientist: natural ocean oscillations are responsible for Earth's modern temperature changes, not human CO2.
And so, over the decade,
alarmist climate
scientists tried to fool the public
by stonewalling («it's the warmest decade on record,» which doesn't mean the decade was warming), denying the facts («the allegation that annual global mean temperatures stopped increasing during the past decade has no basis in reality»), or outright lying («the world is warming even more quickly than we had thought»).
· Subject all such information to proper peer review
by independent
scientists, including the significant numbers of experts who are skeptical of
alarmist pollution and climate change claims;
Whatever their reasons, many if not most leading
alarmist scientists, like Jones, preferred the approach made notorious
by the late Stephen Schneider to get public support: «We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.»
In the absence of good knowledge, or the chance to acquire good knowledge within some «reasonable length of time» —
scientists (the
alarmists) present partial knowledge, supplemented
by belief as absolute knowledge, or as better knowledge than it actually is.
The plan
by climate
alarmists to have other
scientists imprisoned for their «global warming» skepticism is backfiring horribly, and the chief
alarmist is now facing a House investigation into what has been called «the largest science scandal in US history.»
It has since gone viral, endorsed
by scientists from numerous
alarmist institutions including the Royal Society, the IPCC and NOAA who coined it «climate change's evil twin» in a 2016 report.
Scientists who turned into activists and who used fear mongering to get their message across were then quickly labelled «
alarmists»
by the rational skeptics and the name - calling escalated.
No one likes to feel railroaded
by the «Trust me, I'm a
scientist» approach, which is why the
alarmists come across so badly and unbelievably to anyone who dares to question their «science».
Scientists Write Open Letter to Congress: «Earth has been cooling for ten years» — «Present cooling was NOT predicted
by the
alarmists» computer models, and has come as an embarrassment to them» — July 1, 2009
@Go Canucks, UBC, SFU and UVic activist
scientists are called upon
by their pals green councillors or bureaucrats to come over and deliver an
alarmist message to local governments who are obviously clueless and ready to buy anything.
Let's break down the
alarmist - activist - Leftist -
scientists» primary line of defense, helpfully parroted
by the formerly mainstream media: That «they've stolen personal emails.»
Scientists and environmentalists who point out the true extent of the crisis we face risk being attacked for being
alarmist, not least
by our Prime Minister and environment minister Malcolm Turnbull.
My response is we are being told
by Al Gore and James Hansen (NASA global warming
alarmist scientist) that the problem is worse than the IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the
scientists feared.
So who deserves more criticism, the poison apple salesperson posing with «
scientist» stapled to his forehead (say Schmidt) or the person facilitating more poisoned transactions
by essentially protecting the overall fake integrity of the
alarmist tools (Dr. Curry)??