Not exact matches
Even though this series of blog posts
concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007 against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given accusation about
skeptic climate scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the accusation to bits no matter where the hammer strikes.
Concerning the role of active
scientists and
skeptics in the present
climate discussion, the paradoxical thing is that a very large part of
scientists subscribe the first model of thinking.
In the past few months,
climate scientists speaking out about the dangers of global warming have come under increased assault, largely because of
climate skeptics voicing
concerns over the information contained within certain
scientists» email messages.
As I detailed in my August 16 blog piece, Gelbspan said a major factor prompting him to become familiar with the
climate assessments of
skeptic scientists was a backlash of letters from readers of an article he co-authored with Harvard's Paul Epstein
concerning climate change and the spread of diseases.
In a curiosity venture to see if the Union of
Concerned Scientists regurgitation of the «reposition global warming» accusation narrative was getting any media traction, I instead stumbled across an unexpected example of outright either deliberate misinformation, or one of otherwise incompetent reporting from someone who is supposed to be an authority on the topic of «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientis
Scientists regurgitation of the «reposition global warming» accusation narrative was getting any media traction, I instead stumbled across an unexpected example of outright either deliberate misinformation, or one of otherwise incompetent reporting from someone who is supposed to be an authority on the topic of «industry - corrupted
skeptic climate scientistsscientists».
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
scientists are defending the UNFCCC and IPCC as part and parcel of the same thing, and a
climate scientist that is
concerned about
climate change but not supporting the UNFCCC policies (like myself) gets lumped into various categories like
skeptic, etc (see the doubt post).
In this «Connolley Problem» series of posts, I've already pointed out suspect detail omissions (parts 1 and 2) and the suspect time span (part 3), of a supposed
concerned citizen's official complaint over a 2007 UK global warming video featuring
skeptic climate scientists.
,:: Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC),:: BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER: The Scientific Consensus on
Climate Change,:: How To Talk to a
Climate Skeptic,:: NASA: Global Temperature Trends: 2005 Summation,:: DeSmogBlog,:: David Suzuki:
Climate Science,:: Global Warming 101: Human Fingerprints (Union of
Concerned Scientists)
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.
Pick any comment thread over the years of your blog, and no doubt you'll find a high % where
concern is expressed by «
skeptics» asserting a direct link between the source of funding and bias in the work of
climate scientists.
The bit in my A.T. piece was how Robert McClure (a Society of Environmental Journalists board member who had previously offered me the unsupported idea that Gelbspan's work was also documented by others) quoted Dykstra's
concern over
skeptic climate scientist Patrick Michaels getting too much «false» media balance.