That is basically, the climate
change skeptics argument in a nutshell.
Not exact matches
Polman believes that naysayers are losing the
argument on climate
change — notwithstanding the climate
skeptics in President Trump's administration.
If your
argument has been disproved you don't get to keep on repeating it endlessly (like climate
change skeptics constantly do).
«The language style used by climate
change skeptics suggests that the
arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.
At the time, global warming
skeptics used it to support
arguments against climate
change.
Now, as Leslie Kaufman reports in The Times, there appears to be some overlap emerging between those pressing for equal time for non-evolutionary explanations for life's diversity and those demanding equal time for
skeptics»
arguments about the causes and significance of climate
change.
The results lead the authors to conclude that * *** «this experimental data should effectively end the
argument by
skeptics that no experimental evidence exists for the connection between greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere and Climate
Changes caused by global warming.».
A pause would, at least in part, discredit
arguments for global warming and lend credence to
skeptics who argue the climate goes through a natural cycle of
changes.
Joshua: «And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «
skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's»
arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and
change...»
And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «
skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's»
arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and
change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.
Since climates are always
changing anyway (another
skeptic argument) I think we should expect to see about half of the dozens of solar bodies showing signs of warming.
The
skeptics don't have to win the
argument, they just have to stay in the game, keep things stirred up and make sure the politicians don't pass any laws that have dangerous climate
change as a premise.
In recent years, climate
change skeptics have seized on one last
argument that can not be so readily dismissed.
Two, in response to
arguments from some climate
change skeptics, many scientific organizations with expertise relevant to climate
change have endorsed the consensus position that «most of the global warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities» including the following: • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Astronomical Society • American Chemical Society • American Geophysical Union • American Institute of Physics • American Meteorological Society • American Physical Society • Australian Coral Reef Society • Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO • British Antarctic Survey • Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences • Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Environmental Protection Agency • European Federation of Geologists • European Geosciences Union • European Physical Society • Federation of American Scientists • Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of Australia • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Royal Meteorological Society • Royal Society of the UK
He accuses
skeptics of peddling «straw man
arguments,» such as that «the earth's climate always
changes; it's been warmer in the past.»
In January, 2012, Levant featured Timothy Ball on his show and discussed Ball's belief that there has been no global warming since 1998, a debunked
argument that has long been popular with climate
change skeptics.
Skeptical Science:
Skeptic Argument: Climate is always
changing.
Mails where one scientist tries to cajole another to stick with the «party line», or to
change his wording so that
skeptics won't have a field day with the internal
argument.
In the meantime, climate
change proceeds apace, «
skeptics» make specious
arguments using glaring errors in the satellite data, and DSCOVR dozes in its storage box here on Earth waiting for 1 / 20th of the money required for a re-do the failed CERES experiment.
The
argument to «learn what else drives climate» is a complete red herring, as if scientists are not already figuring out everything they can (which in turn is then being repeatedly re shaped to use to try to refute Climate
Change by «
skeptic» websites, as is everything), and is just used as another false refutation of, or confusion on, the basic assessment and risk range that the at this point fairly well known and well substantiated general concept of Climate
Change represents.
Imagine for a moment that climate
change skeptics actually submitted their anti-science
arguments for publication in a credible peer - reviewed journal.
The excellent science and statistics blogger Tim Lambert has proposed a game called» global warming
skeptic bingo,» in which all of the various discredited
arguments that are repeatedly used to undermine the consensus view of human - caused climate
change are arranged in a series of squares.
DW: Climate
change skeptics argue that humans are not to blame for climate
change, and they often cherrypick scientific facts to support their
argument.
While the
argument rumbles on for some, with Exxon now accepting the existance of man - made climate
change, and with the climate
skeptic's favorite scientist actually being a vocal climate action proponent, I'm ready to move on until someone shows me convincing evidence of this elaborate hoax I keep hearing about.
Hank (216), No, I'm simply saying that the
argument that the supporters of AGW are just like the good guys from the tobacco studies, or that the
skeptics are just like the folks that didn't buy off on the tobacco studies is not a compelling
argument for or against, though for some reason it is viewed by some as a absolute proof of the validity of climate
change studies.
Skeptic Argument: Climate
change isn't bad.