The word
"denialist" refers to someone who refuses to accept or acknowledge certain facts or evidence, usually related to a controversial topic.
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I think people are being far too kind to climate
change denialists by assuming they're arguing in good faith.
There is a good article on the PR methods used
by denialists in Eur J Public Health vol 19 pp 2 - 4.
Here's a section in which he asserts that many climate campaigners and climate scientists are overly concerned about the impact of
denialists on public attitudes:
re» I fail to see what you find out of Cox & Senior's presentation that would be of any help
for denialists like Rose.»
This is a talking point I've been seeing quite a bit
from denialists who like to pretend to be scientific.
2) Steve Goddard, formerly associated
with denialist blog Watt's Up With That, cast a blogvote for global warming having stopped in 2002, since there is a flat linear trend from that date to present.
I found the notion that someone thinks it's profound that every two maxima are separated by a minimum to be pretty funny and on intellectual par with the vast majority of
denialist arguments.
A New York Times defence of its hiring of a climate
science denialist as a leading columnist is pushing high - profile climate scientists to cancel their subscriptions.
Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who believes that human influence on climate change must be a myth because the Bible says so, said in an interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins last night on «Washington Watch» that climate change
denialists like himself have won the debate.
Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming
denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries
You could also have mentioned the reception given by
denialist blogs like WaUWT when their «scientific authority» is questioned.
Indeed, it would probably be quicker to list Coalition politicians who have never publically made
denialist claims.
Further, labeling views
as denialist has the potential to inappropriately link such views with Holocaust denial.
Regardless of what one thinks of cap - and - trade as a policy approach, nothing looks likely to change in that arena in the near - foreseeable future, except for greater numbers on the no - compromise corporate and global warming
denialist side.
If you repeat current global climate change
denialist propaganda here, though, you should expect to be called a denier.
Anyone who has tried to discuss Climaticide with a climate change
denialist knows just how frustrating it can be.
Nobody will complain about not getting to read troll exchanges and meta - comments (such as this one) about the ongoing troll exchanges and
about Denialist trolls in general.
Didactylos, you call yourself a realist in this debate, isn't that
what denialists call themselves in the climate debate...?
I'll just say that I've seen
denialists pointing at some of this articles in The Guardian as a proof that climate science is under question (because EVEN The Guardian has now concerns) and I think people who don't pay much attention to it have actually been misled by the headlines and the comments from skeptics.
1) A paper was published in a peer reviewed journal with data that was viewed by
AGW denialists as proof of their viewpoint.
Scientific research constitutes a small but enduring portion of the climate
denialist community's work, which largely focuses on public relations campaigns, lobbying and public education.
So I was concerned that it was about allowing
denialist groups the ability to gum things up.
At least it has reminded me why
denialist websites ain't worth an single atom of Carbon and why I rarely if ever bother.
I also note for Anna Haynes that Greasemonkey issued a new [killfile] update (which shows up here), but your filter is much better — you can easily count the many
denialist fringe comments, but by a small percentage.
[I'm using Real Earth 2, a comment filter (requires Firefox and Greasemonkey add - on) to clear
denialist disinformation from Dot Earth comments.]
But when it comes to those physicists who do hold
denialist views on climate without having either done any research in the field or read the existing research, it's that lack of respect that angers me.
Plus the fact that the alarmist side of the debate is getting its butt kicked all over the shop, so they must invent a «vicious, well -
funded denialist machine» to somehow explain away their own failure.