Sentences with phrase «fake skeptics»

The phrase "fake skeptics" refers to people who pretend to be skeptical or doubtful about something, but their skepticism is not genuine. They may pretend to question or doubt ideas or evidence, but their real intention could be to mislead or manipulate others instead of genuinely seeking the truth. Full definition
Providing talking points for fake skeptics to use to prevent real conversation is very big business.
Many times, however, you see fake skeptics abusing questions.
Tamino has just now shown that RATPAC balloon thermometer data of the lower troposphere does not support a «pause» in warming over the past 18 years as fake skeptics claim RSS data do.
On her blog, Curry complains that the article misrepresented her to some degree (while standing behind some of her worst comments, and acknowledging that the quotes attributed to her in the article are correct), but frankly when dealing with fake skeptics like those at The Daily Mail, most of us know that misrepresentation is the norm.
Let's start with the original to provide some context: «If one could harness the energy spent by fake skeptics bolstering their prejudices, it would provide a great deal of «clean» energy, though the pollution of time wasted doing so might not be offset.»
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).
I know we have the SkS calc, but I like to use WFT to avoid wading through a bunch of anti-SkS crap when the conditions include fake skeptics.
I was expecting fake skeptics to remain mostly silent in face of the ice massacre up north, but apparently they acutely sense how big this blow is to the remaining shred of their credibility, and so they upped the ante of misleading and distorting stupidity.
If this is the best today's climate fake skeptics can do, perhaps, as Patrick Michaels suggests, they are losing the battle.
Stay tuned for a summary and comparison of recent global warming attribution studies, including Gillett et al., and a blog post on the distortion of their results by certain fake skeptics.
That's not real skepticism, it's the kind of wishful thinking that only suits fake skeptics.
Nope fake skeptics, it is simply called consilience.
Real information about what's going on is being presented by one of the best, the messenger fake skeptics are fond of killing over and over, on the «no smoke without fire» principle of successful disinformation PR:
Unfortunately, most of those who call themselves skeptics, espcially those who blather on and on about the end of global warming while swallowing the most ludicrous ideas hook line and sinker, would be better described as fake skeptics.
Besides, warmists can perfectly debunk that claim about no increase in the nonsensical «global temperature» fake skeptics like so much.
In the email, John suggested that the graphic had gained so much popularity, it would likely soon be the target of attacks from fake skeptics.
For now Lewis lies squarely in the climate «hobbyist» desgnation, and his fellow fake skeptics are bending over backwards to try and boost his impact.
Every time they bring up a subject all half baked and dumbed up, a response would be a readily available science lecture contradicting said misinformation all without vaunting the prowess of the fake skeptic.
Not very nice but seems to be acceptable behaviour at WUWT, but only if the attacks are against someone who could be taken as a genuine rather than fake skeptic.
Fake skeptics and deniers won't do the combination of factors that I have laid out because they realize it won't give the answers that they want to see.
The fake skeptics then repeat one of Lindzen's favorite myths, that the Earth has warmed less than predicted by the IPCC.
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