In this overheated environment do I detect the hand
of global warming sceptics in business and the media at work, gleefully sowing the seeds of confusion?
It would appear that Schwartz has put out an article for discussion and thought, nothing wrong with this, but perhaps, knowing how such a paper would be seized on
by global warming sceptics, deniers and contrarians, the caveats should have come at the beginning and in large print?
Add the fact that France's most
prominent global warming sceptic is an eminent vulcanologist, who also happens to be a much - hated socialist ex-minister of education, and you can see how attitudes can be affected by trivial considerations of national politics.
«A Greenpeace investigation has identified a little - known, privately owned US oil company as the paymaster of
global warming sceptics in the US and Europe.
While Stott's describes himself as being a «mildly left -
wing global warming sceptic» he dismisses the Kyoto Protocol as unrealistic «command and control» economics.
What is much more important is the fact that
global warming sceptics rightly claimed in the 80s that 10 years of warming wasn't long enough to prove that the change was significant.
But their popularity has attracted the attention of
global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry, who have started to attack polar bear science.
The US Congress's most
ardent global warming sceptic is being accused of turning the row over climate science into a McCarthyite witch - hunt by calling for a criminal investigation of scientists.
Labelling the coal mine owner «England's most
prominent global warming sceptic,» Brian Palmer of the NRDC's onEarth magazine writes: «Ridley is one of the most capable spokesmen for climate change denial 2.0.»
He manages to publish articles by every biased organisation under the sun
from global warming sceptics, real science poo pooers, ideological nutcases, one eyed fossil fuel lobbyists, sycophants of large business politicos, and the would be destroyers of public services and regulation.
It is (as far as I can tell) named after Theodor Landscheidt, a solar scientist who worked on the relationship between planetary cycles and solar cycles has been basically ignored by the scientific community (he had an H - index of 3 — which is pretty poor) but taken up enthusiastically
by global warming sceptics and astrologers.
Via a series of foundations, Koch and his brother, David, have also given millions of dollars to
global warming sceptics, according to Greenpeace.
However, Bellamy has become a prominent
global warming sceptic and has made a number of notable claims in the media.
The global warming sceptics often quoted the less responsible and more sensationalistic journalists.
Reading and listening to
global warming sceptics can get a little tedious because they keep trotting out the same discredited arguments.
When I find myself in a heated argument with
a global warming sceptic, and tire of being criticized as naive for believing in climate models, or of underestimating the complexity of nature, etc, I find it useful to just interject «But summer IS warmer than winter!».
Dr Iain Stewart investigates the counter attack that was launched by
the global warming sceptics in the 1990s.
Iain examines the scientific arguments that developed as
the global warming sceptics took on the climate change consensus.
It is not just the creationists but also
the global warming sceptics who have tried to systematically undermine the credibility of a mass of scientific research.
Some global warming sceptics say these figures disprove the basic hypothesis of global warming, that rising greenhouse gas emissions automatically produce rising temperatures.
Mimicking the post-modernists in their critique of the social sciences and humanities,
the global warming sceptics have characterised climate science as a social construction of scientists motivated by career advancement and prospects of research funding.
The hottest year on record was 1998, and the relatively cool years since have led to
some global warming sceptics claiming that temperatures have levelled off or started to decline.
Some of the leaked emails reveal the climate researchers» unhappiness with the publication of certain scientific papers questioning the global warming consensus, and discuss removing journal editors they perceived as being sympathetic to
global warming sceptics.
«I am not
a global warming sceptic.
His proposition that
the Global Warming sceptics «cherry - pick» the data to suit their needs is the opposite of the truth.
I'm not
a global warming sceptic, but I find this single issue to be the hardest one to answer.
: Scientists at a leading British climate research centre had a culture of withholding information from
global warming sceptics but did not deliberately manipulate data to support their case, politicians said today
As for
the global warming sceptics they must live in cloud cuckoo land.
Now: Ebell is the director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and continues to be a prominent
global warming sceptic, appearing as a pundit on US television networks and writing media columns.
It does however, confirm my theory, that
global warming sceptics are no different to creationists.
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