The vibrant, international
climate skeptic community owes its existence to the Internet.
He was never directly contacted or targeted by the anonymous hacker as a source to leak the emails since he was not prominent in
the climate skeptic community and it required no special «expertise» to read emails, nor special «influence» to contact people like Steve McIntyre.
It is no exaggeration to say that the vibrant, international
climate skeptic community owes its very existence to the Internet.
Mashable reached out to Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), who helped make Friday's announcement and has been a target of the vigorous pushback from
the climate skeptic community.
Not exact matches
The same plague of us - or - them absolutism that has infested the small
community of self - described «
climate skeptics,» wrecking any chance they could have played a positive role in critiquing mainstream climatology, now threatens to overwhelm the much larger «safe food» movement, too.
Attracted to fringe scientists like the small and vocal group of
climate skeptics, Republicans appear to be alienated from a mainstream scientific
community that by and large doesn't share their political beliefs.
I've had arguments with many a
climate skeptic, with and without scientific backgrounds alike (arguing with those from the Engineering
community can be especially difficult)
The same requirement applies to the
community of
climate skeptics / contrarians / deniers / realists (depending on who's doing the labeling) who have made a mantra out of the «global cooling» since the 1998 peak in global temperature.
But the
skeptic community seems determined to rely on this rather than describe, in an intellectually honest way, what this means for the hypothesized influence of anthropogenic CO2 on
climate.
I encourage you to read «In Kansas,
Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy,» Leslie Kaufman's excellent story on enthusiastic energy - saving initiatives in a community largely resistant to the «climate crisis.
Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy,» Leslie Kaufman's excellent story on enthusiastic energy - saving initiatives in a
community largely resistant to the «
climate crisis.
climate crisis.»
Wasn't the I.P.C.C. Assessment Report intended to be a scientific document that would merit solid backing from the
climate science
community — instead of forcing many
climate scientists into having to agree with greenhouse
skeptic criticisms that this is indeed a report with a clear and obvious political agenda.
Exaggeration only provides fodder to the dwindling
community of
climate skeptics and leads the audience to doubt the seriousness of
climate change and the immediacy of the need for action.
Mann and the scientific
community (including some
climate skeptics) viewed the investigation as a grave threat to scientific inquiry, and he is relieved to put it behind him.
What every
skeptic I am aware of, when allowed to speak in complete sentences and paragraphs says is that the
climate is not doing much, that
climate has always changed, and that it is not changing in the dangerous ways predicted by the AGW
community.
And that reality has been demonstrated over and over again, most recently in the work of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, led by Dr. Richard Muller, who began his comprehensive assessment as an avowed
climate skeptic and ended it convinced by the clear evidence that global warming is happening and is caused by human activity.This conclusion is emphatically shared by the best and brightest of the global scientific
community, including our own National Academy of Sciences.
The
climate science
community is going to very gradually reveal precisely what the
skeptics have been saying for 20 years.
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 capi
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 capi
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 capi
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 capi
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 capi
Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «
climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capi
climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.
Instead of discussing the uncertainties and seeking to reduce them, many in both the
community of
climate change advocates or the
community of
climate change
skeptics choose to defame each other with derogatory titles.
The study made Watts something of a star in the
climate -
skeptic community, earning him national press and television appearances.
It is the failure of the many in the
climate community to draw this distinction between deniers and
skeptics that has resulted in this problem.»
Believe it or not, there are liberal
skeptics in the
climate community, as there are also perfectly patriotic liberals in this nation.
Soon, one of few
skeptics in the
climate science
community, described the paper that was published in the journal Physical Geography as «fairly significant scientifically in that this is the first successful formulation of a sun -
climate connection.»
Curry has been engaging actively with the
climate change
skeptic community, largely by participating on outsider blogs... Alon...
Skeptics are winning because the AGW
community was wrong to claim that we are facing or will face some grave
climate crisis, and no matter how many studies believers come up with to claim otherwise, the
climate continues to fail to cooperate with the apocalypse.
What
skeptics are «skeptical» about is one or more of the bald assertions of the alarmist
community — usually that the current round of
climate changes are: abnormal, harmful, or (primarily) anthropogenic.
According to Roger Pielke Jr., the New York Times writer Andy Revkin was threatened with the «Big Cutoff» from the
climate science
community by Michael Schlesinger, a
climate scientist from the University of Illinois, for the sin of «gutter reportage» and for providing space in his Times blog for
skeptics.
Every time
climate science has another crack at misanthropy the cool headed
skeptics in the scientific
community become more determined to show the world just how much of a laughingstock they are, in my opinion, the «Man Made Global Warming» alarmists are kicking a sleeping giant!
In March 2010, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published a report finding that the
skeptics» criticisms of the CRU were misplaced, and that its actions «were in line with common practice in the
climate science
community.»
If you concede that
climate skeptics have not proven in peer - reviewed journals that human - induced warming is not a very serious threat to human health and ecological systems, given that human - induced warming could create catastrophic warming the longer the human
community waits to respond to reduce the threat of
climate change and the more difficult it will be to prevent dangerous warming, do you agree that those nations most responsible for rising atmospheric ghg concentrations have a duty to demonstrate that their ghg emissions are safe?
If you concede that
climate skeptics have not proven in peer - reviewed journals that human - induced warming is not a very serious threat to human health and ecological systems, given that human - induced warming could create catastrophic warming the longer the human
community waits to respond to reduce the threat of
climate change and the more difficult it will be to prevent dangerous warming, do you agree that those responsible for rising atmospheric ghg concentrations have a duty to demonstrate that their ghg emissions are safe?
By calling the science «still incomplete,» Bush also lent new credibility to the tiny handful of industry - sponsored «greenhouse
skeptics» who have been thoroughly discredited by the mainstream
community of
climate researchers — including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue - ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and o
climate researchers — including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue - ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and o
Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences and other blue - ribbon scientific groups that deem global warming to be real, immediate and ominous.
The vision of the
skeptic community denying that the world is warming at all is a straw man created by the
climate catastrophists to avoid arguing about the much more important point in her second paragraph.
There should be spaces in our
communities where
climate skeptics can speak freely.
So, on the one hand, some «
skeptics» (including Judith) paint the «
climate science
community» as a whole as being «asymmetrically» tribal and partisan, yet on the other hand, those same
skeptics seek to create distinctions within their own
community that they won't allow for in the «
climate science
community.»
When the «
climate science
community» takes steps to control for biases — and those steps are rejected by some «
skeptics,» it leaves me wondering what those «
skeptics» are really interested in.
Many
climate skeptics suspect that the
climate science
community is caught up in political conformity that leans toward alarmism, and that alternative ideas about the causes and risks of
climate change can not break through peer review.
Between a research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of
climate change
skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific
community.
Likewise, since before I ever became a
skeptic, the establishment
climate scientists and their supporters have been characterizing, ad infinitum, the skeptical
community as shills of the oil industry and other large industrial concerns, and especially as paid - off pawns of right - wing think tanks and right - wing concerns.
The accusations of tribalism among the «
climate community» have to do with funding, peer reviews, IPCC process etc. — something that the
skeptics don't have equivalent versions of — YET.
Within the
community of
climate scientists, the Mann activist group is vastly more egregious that Judith and most
skeptics within the
climate science
community.
If
skeptics within the
climate science
community are starved of funding how would we know if they have a strong case or whether the so - called consensus is merely an artifact of them getting all the research grants?
As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or
climate -
skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit language on the ways in which
climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one
community, the negative impacts to industry in another.
Attracted to fringe scientists like the small and vocal group of
climate skeptics, Republicans appear to be alienated from a mainstream scientific
community that by and large doesn't share their political beliefs.
In July 2009, the Business Insider's Green Sheet named him third in its list of the Ten Most - Respected Global Warming
Skeptics and commented that «Myron Ebell may be enemy # 1 to the current
climate change
community.»
IMO,
climate skeptic Rawls shot at the IPCC is the worst thing that's happened to the
climate contrarian
community in recent memory.
The «Vampire Memo» from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) draws on the work of such industry - funded
skeptics as Pat Michaels, Fred Singer, Robert Balling and Craig Idso — as well as such ideologues as Richard Lindzen and William Gray who have long been laughingstocks in the
community of mainstream
climate scientists.
For the
community of catastrophic global warming
skeptics, it is a very welcome and enjoyable «
climate change» schadenfreude with Trump's election...
Few here would dispute that we find plenty of bias in the
skeptic community where peer review quality is even more lacking than in the mainstream
climate community.
Within the
community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic
climate change, those whom Inhofe called
skeptics are more commonly termed contrarians, naysayers and denialists.