I have been assailed in recent months by a range of superficially plausible arguments
by Global Warming Deniers, whose views on other issues I largely respect.
The claim of a pause is noise made
by global warming deniers who are misinforming themselves and others.
- Hurricane Sandy wasn't influenced
by global warming deniers!»
My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such as
those by global warming deniers.
It is no surprise that it comes up because it is one of the most popular claims made
by the global warming deniers.
FYI, this paper is already being widely cited on blogs
by global warming deniers as proof that all of the climate models are wrong, wrong, wrong and that the whole concept of anthropogenic GHG - caused warming has been refuted.
Perhaps sparked
by global warming denier Jim Inhofe's recent appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Baldwin launched a series of tweets attacking Inhofe: -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Trump,
by contrast, appears to have no engagement with science, has implicitly
denied the scientific consensus when it comes to
global warming, and he wasn't supported
by the tech industry during the election (the highly ideological, libertarian Thiel notwithstanding).
The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada
by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change -
denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that
global warming science is «not settled.»
Denying global warming is one prime example held
by extremists who seem to lean toward the religious right with respect to political ideology.
For instance when Clinton accused Trump of saying that the concept of
global warming was created
by China to relegate US manufacturing Trump
denied ever saying that's.
Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not believing in
global warming, but when faced
by such an overwhelming majority of scientist who believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to
deny it.
Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected
by the consequences of regulations to reduce
global warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to
deny global warming.
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.
Environmental groups have been frustrated
by the Bush administrations rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what Sohn describes as its tendency to
deny, deflect blame and delay when it comes to issues involving
global warming.
For years, we at Greenpeace have been working to make public the secret paper trails that show what everyone already knows: climate science
deniers - #Fakexperts - are few and far between, and most of them are paid
by companies most responsible for
global warming to downplay the problem.
Global warming deniers * pull similar dirty tricks with the comparison of global temperature with model projections — for example, by plotting only the tropical mid-troposphere, and by comparing observations with the projections of scenarios which are furthest from re
Global warming deniers * pull similar dirty tricks with the comparison of
global temperature with model projections — for example, by plotting only the tropical mid-troposphere, and by comparing observations with the projections of scenarios which are furthest from re
global temperature with model projections — for example,
by plotting only the tropical mid-troposphere, and
by comparing observations with the projections of scenarios which are furthest from reality.
For those who seek to curtail travel in a feeble attempt to fight
global warming: Given the non-emergency that climate change has thus far proven to be and the real and dire crises that presently plague the planet, should we also
deny transportation (
by aid organizations and concerned citizens) to regions, like the Darfur or Sierra Leone, that require our immediate attention?
I've been fascinated
by how, as the
global warming debate went on, the
deniers all suddenly began to attack windmills.
His indifference to the harm done to the public mind
by the AGW
deniers is perhaps why so many skeptics find comfort in Pielke's message, and why so many casual observers mistake him for a
global warming skeptic.
Getting sidetracked about discussions concerning how far they can swim is just sick obfuscation being propagated
by deniers who want to discredit any
global warming science.
As usual with any Post article that discusses
global warming and climate change, the comments are already dominated
by sneering, arrogant
deniers who ignore the actual content of the article and launch into their scripted, robotic, idiotic diatribes.
This is contributing to all of us going down the tubes together as a result of
global warming skeptics and
deniers who are playing around with the well known casino rule of «gambler's ruin»
by always betting against the house.
Global warming deniers however, as you have said, are obsessed
by water vapour and good information is needed to show them how they are fooling themselves.
I have no doubt that your blog entry will be followed
by the usual responses: those who
deny the existence of
global warming, those who
deny the link between greenhouse gases and
global warming, those who insist there still isn't enough evidence, and those who can not see beyond the rising prices of gasoline and heating oil.
I wonder those people
deny the
global warming whether see the one
by one phenomenon, whether they worry about these phenomena?
Since this blog has given considerable space to the discussions of the
global warming deniers (who have no real basis in serious academic literature), it would only seem fair to review this book
by Speth in the NY Times, and then have a discussion of it on this blog.
Below is a note sent to me
by Vic Svec, who you heard from here earlier in the year in relation to efforts
by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, a rising star in the Democratic Party, to
deny permits for two proposed coal - burning power plants because of their potential contribution to
global warming.
Stratospheric cooling accompanied
by surface
warming is actually PREDICTED
by GHG model yet GW
deniers present the stratospheric cooling part as «proof» that
global warming was NOT happening!!
When I read Dot Earth, I get irritated
by those who
deny the realities of
global warming or peak oil or overpopulation; who are unwilling to change in thinking or in attitude or in lifestyle.
Evidence for
global warming over the last 150 years or so is so widespread that it can be
denied only
by those either unwilling to look or pushing an agenda in denial of observable facts.
The letter portends to offer facts about «climate change
deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about skeptic climate scientists saying
global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and caused
by humans, but it's not so bad.»
a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade - long campaign
by Exxon - funded front groups — and the scientists they work with — to
deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on
global warming and delay action to fix the problem.
«Pete Ridley is a
global warming denier who argues that the «
global warming hoax» is being perpetrated
by the International Jewish Banking conspiracy led
by the Rothschilds.»
Consider, for example, Bjorn Lomborg, who has never «
denied»
global warming, climate change, nor that they represent serious problems which ought to be addressed, probably
by government intervention.
And if Skolnick is accurate in his claim that «Pete Ridley is a
global warming denier who argues that the «
global warming hoax» is being perpetrated
by the International Jewish Banking conspiracy led
by the Rothschilds», then you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself... however politically charged this issue, such anti-Semite views are disgusting.
My concern on this issue is two-fold: one consists of the actual
global consequences of the reality of
global warming, and the other is the blatant manipulation of that reality
by those who would
deny it.
To start, Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who is a
global warming denier,
by the way, is the head of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great Beyond Over 250 members of the US National Academy of Sciences have hit back at
global warming deniers, warning that attacks on climate science are being mainly driven not
by intellectual inquiry but
by special interest and dogma.
Warmists project their climate change denial very nicely and obviously on skeptics,
by calling them climate change (or
global warming)
deniers.
Global warming is a movement that has been taken over
by the liberal wing of the Democrat Party in America with its collectivist creed:
deny the existence of personal responsibility and employ any means to bring about the Left's imaginary Utopian ends.
We don't get any closer to science
by denying the significant possibility that we are causing significantly adverse changes in climate than we do
by the ridiculous assertion that we understand the chaotic complexity of climate well enough to say with certainty how many parts per millions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to how many degrees of
global warming.
You further presume that it is essential to «mitigate» climate change which
by default castigates as «
denier» all who accept your anthropogenic majority
global warming, yet who find the economics of «mitigation» incredibly bad and the concept morally reprehensible.
That study refuted gospel
by deniers that
global warming slowed between 1998 and 2012.
Of course several denizens on this board have
denied CO2 is a greenhouse gas (
by denying the greenhouse effect) and have
denied that Earth has
warmed (
by claiming
global temperature is meaningless concept) and
denied that rising CO2 has a
warming effect.
In his big speech on climate change today, President Obama mocked Republicans who
deny the existence of man - made
global warming by derisively referring to them as members of «the Flat Earth Society.»
'' In addition to critiques
by well - known
global warming deniers, the issue of hurricanes and
global warming has been debated intensely within the meteorological community, identifying clear differences in the prevailing views on this subject...............»
At the Northeast Public Power Association's annual conference in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month, what was billed as a «common sense» discussion on climate change was actually a talk
by Steve Goreham, an author of books that
deny that burning fossil fuels causes
global warming.
By your use of this term, you directly imply that I am a «denier», as I am highly skeptical of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (not just «anthropogenic global warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved by model or experiment
By your use of this term, you directly imply that I am a «
denier», as I am highly skeptical of Catastrophic Anthropogenic
Global Warming (not just «anthropogenic global warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved by model or experi
Global Warming (not just «anthropogenic global warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved by model or exper
Warming (not just «anthropogenic
global warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved by model or experi
global warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved by model or exper
warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved
by model or experiment
by model or experiment).
Virginia Attorney General and
global warming denier Ken Cuccinelli has been rebuffed
by a state Circuit Court judge who ruled today that Cuccinelli's politically - charged subpoena against the University of Virginia and climate scientist Michael Mann lacked an «objective basis.»