If this is the best today's
climate fake skeptics can do, perhaps, as Patrick Michaels suggests, they are losing the battle.
Not exact matches
However, since a high proportion of misnamed «
skeptics» are in fact deliberate liars, who endlessly repeat assertions that they well know have been repeatedly shown to be false, it will probably have little effect on the
fake, phony, Exxon - Mobil sponsored «debate» about anthropogenic
climate change.
Most of the
Fake Skeptics believe that Amazon basin and Sahara have SAME
climate; because they are affected by the same sunspots.
This is simply untrue - in fact, the IPCC
climate predictions have been amongst the most accurate thus far, much better than Lindzen and his fellow
fake skeptics have done (Figure 2).
Just when we thought the op - ed letter couldn't get worse, these
fake skeptics have the gall to suggest that we «follow the money,» because
climate «alarmism» supposedly brings bountiful research funding, «an excuse for governments to raise taxes», «big donations» for environmental groups, and other similar tinfoil - hattery.
And it is this gibberish that allows the politically biased left in those university academic departments to create
fake interpretations to smear the
climate skeptics.
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).
Similar to the propositions that Princess Diana was murdered but
faked her own death, the quotations of Australian
climate «
skeptic» Ian Plimer at the outset of this article are incoherent and can not both be true.
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 hire.
It includes his bit about
fake letter - writers, his inconsistencies about whether he prompted a male or female Attorney General to question
skeptic scientists attending a 1995 government hearing, the plausibility problem of that AG tipping him — a private citizen at that time — about the impending appearance of
skeptic climate scientists there — plus more than a dozen other major problems.
DeSmogBlog's special 2012 report, «
Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax» (PDF), compiled by computer scientist John R. Mashey provides insight into Koch's funding of the
climate change
skeptic network at the time.
If it's not obvious, that's «The challenge for the genuine
skeptic who can't (or won't) make the effort to become an expert himself, is to achieve scientific meta - literacy adequate to distinguish genuine from
fake climate expertise».
Genuine scientific skepticism is not just the unmoving rejection of evolution or
climate change by
fake skeptics, called pseudoskeptics.
Oh please,
skeptics are people who question all sides of an issue (like most qualified
climate scientists), and
climate contrarians are rarely that, which is why many of us call them
fake skeptics.
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Even more troubling for the
fake «
skeptics», however, is that 78.92 % of
climate scientists are significantly convinced (> 4 reponse) that»...
climate change poses a very serious and dangerous threat to humanity» (question 22).