Sentences with phrase «known climate contrarians»

At the time, I posted that the hacker uploaded the personal details of every SkS user account, but I've since discovered that he omitted the personal details of any known climate contrarians in our user database.

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Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

I'm saying that it definitely * has * happened in the case of climate contrarians, and that so far it is only * known * to have happened in the case of climate contrarians.

Some of you that follow my twitter account will have already seen this, but there was a particularly amusing episode of Q&A on Australian TV that pitted Prof. Brian Cox against a newly - elected politician who is known for his somewhat fringe climate «contrarian» views.

In this piece, Broad attempts to discredit Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» by exaggerating the legitimate, but minor, criticisms of his treatment of the science by experts on climate science, and presenting specious or unsubstantiated criticisms by a small number of the usual, well - known contrarians who wouldn't agree even if Gore read aloud from the latest IPCC report.

So a «newly - elected politician who is known for his somewhat fringe climate «contrarian» views» may have a very low ability in math.

I'm saying that it definitely * has * happened in the case of climate contrarians, and that so far it is only * known * to have happened in the case of climate contrarians.

G&T managed to get their work out there; publishing it in Nature or Science would not have changed the fact that they're arguments just don't hold any water (they didn't do any new science, they just took what was already known, and then tried to use that to argue against what is already known — a search for logical inconsistency, which might have been worthwhile if they'd known what they were doing and if they'd gone after contrarian «theory»)-- unless it were edited, removing all the errors and non-sequitors, after which it would be no different than a physics book such as the kind a climate scientist would use...

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

We knew that our paper would be unpopular among climate contrarians, but we were taken aback by the ferocity of the attack and the obsessiveness of some of our critics.

Vincent acknowledges that hard - core climate contrarians aren't likely to change their minds no matter how many articles Climate Feedback rclimate contrarians aren't likely to change their minds no matter how many articles Climate Feedback rClimate Feedback reviews.

A contrarian stance is always seriously flawed in one way or another, and knowing this error is just as good as being taught about climate reality in some topical way... Keep up the good work RC!

«It is becoming increasingly difficult for climate contrarians to deny that something is happening, because the impacts of climate change are no longer subtle,» he said.

The cases make the claim that the «Global Climate Coalition» was a front group operating in tobacco industry - like fashion with the fossil fuel company defendants to misinform the public while supposedly knowing their «contrarian» views were unfounded.

But for some reason every contrarian out there feels that climate science is fair game and that they somehow know better.

No, Edim, I am a friend of science, but I'm not a friend of climate science contrarians, who I believe are largely ideologues whose ideologies are at odds with the science.

Doc Martyn — an argument from incredulity no doubt passes as rational assessment on the contrarian blogs, but this is a blog run by climate scientists.

This is the final instalment in a series of posts documenting dubious scholarship and unattributed sources in the background chapter of the touchstone of climate contrarians known as the Wegman Report.

It is hard to know which is greater: contrarians» overstatement of the flaws in the historical temperature reconstruction from 1998 by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues or the ultimate insignificance of their argument to the case for climate change.

We had a look at the piece and it turns out that it is another strange example of someone well - known over many years for their contrarian views on climate change (among other things) attempting to claim some kind of «middle ground».