Hi
from a sceptic in NZ.Thanks to the team for their magnificent work.Just one request, could you put our NIWA on the right track to monitor our temps please?They seem to be struggling at the moment.
In the 21 years since arXiv began, Ginsparg has seen astrophysicists, computer scientists and others
go from sceptics to devotees.
Saying that Lewandowsky's attempts to get
responses from sceptics was inadequate is nothing like saying that the CIA killed Martin Luther King.
The climate scientist Michael Mann, who has been under relentless
attack from sceptics since the exposure of emails at East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, was cleared of research misconduct by a university investigation yesterday.
That has not deterred the climate Gnostics, sustained by their mystical insight into inner truths
hidden from sceptics («deniers» in their language of anathema) and, increasingly, from scientists who have not taken the IPCC shilling.
«but one big part of the critique
from from the sceptics (scientists and public) is that the results / descriptions from establishment science do not stand apart from the efforts to publicize and to confirm AGW.»
It would probably help if you actually read instead of pulling some
verse from a sceptic source on the internet.
The shadow Climate Change Secretary is winning some plaudits for his «positive environmentalism»
from sceptics such as Mr Montgomerie, raising hopes that the Tories can square the circle and remain broadly united.
The BBC has frequently sacrificed accuracy in favour of a muddled notion of impartiality by broadcasting inaccurate and misleading
statements from sceptics.
The Big
question from sceptics is:... That crops for bio-fuel takes away the ability of the world to feed it's growing population, this is answered in a couple of ways in the film.
There are many interesting comments from proponents of human caused climate change (AGW or anthropogenic global warming) and
from sceptics which show an astonishing range of differing interpretations and understandings of the so called Greenhouse Effect none of which bear much relation to the actuality.
James actually received a lot of
criticism from sceptics for somehow «failing» to get across the sceptical arguments in this program.
Is his complaint that some Exxon money ended up as a site that directs people to the latest stories about climate change
written from a sceptic's perspective?
An example of an own
goal from the sceptic side was this article by Tim Ball in which he talked about «the Big Lie», which angered Professor Richard Betts, one of the few professional climate scientists who will talk to us, who responded with this.
They especially urged older, more established scientists to take the lead because the
backlash from sceptics can be damaging to younger colleagues» careers.
A clear
message from sceptics is that the effect of CO2 and other global warming gases has been greatly exaggerated and it does not make economic sense to solve the problem by reducing emissions.
For example, I have never argued that the satellite record somehow refutes global warming claims, nor supported the «urban heat island» arguments, nor any of a number of other dubious
claims from the sceptics.
Due to intensive reading since January I've
gone from sceptic, to being staggered at the pace of change.
It is my view that by erring on the side of least drama, scientists are cowing under the fear of
attacks from sceptics (which we have to recognise will come no matter what we say) and are failing to give policy makers an accurate picture of low probability but high hazard events.