Mostly from
lukewarmers like Bjorn Lomborg — not well received by alarmists.
The problem with being a climate skeptic, or
a lukewarmer like me, is the company you have to keep.
Not exact matches
He described his position as a «
lukewarmer», which sounds to me
like someone who believes you can get a little bit pregnant.
Steve is an admitted
lukewarmer (as Jan says a better description is required) and adamant anti-AGW catastrophist who believes the Miscolczian -
like - ve feedback of blooms in their various configurations not only mitigate CO2 effect but have causal correlation with ENSO.
Labels
like «
Lukewarmer» are pre-scientific gibberish.
Like most
Lukewarmers my view of the physics tells me the pause will end.
I
like your use of «linearist» for warmist, however, it seems the
Lukewarmers & # 0153 (& # 0169 S. Mosher, 2006) are fixated on straight lines as well.
Don't underestimate
lukewarmers as they may be professionals
like Lindzen, Spencer, or Motl.
Cato's Pat Michaels is certainly qualified to run the Red Team, but he is a
lukewarmer so I might
like a true skeptic to co-chair.
Even people
like Steve Mosher (who I pick as an archetypal
lukewarmer) who doesn't question the basics of the science at all, but doesn't think there is much evidence for high CO2 sensitivity and that the catastrophe is overblown.
Looks
like the NAS SCC panel includes no skeptics or
lukewarmers.
Now it's from Ross Douthat, who declares for lukewarmerism:
LIKE a lot of conservatives who write about public policy, my views on climate change place me in the ranks of what the British writer Matt Ridley once dubbed the «
lukewarmers.»
Sorry for overthinking, but if a scenario
like that occurred the temperature would likely be higher that today but not by 3C but it would still be a fit for
lukewarmer ideology of AGW.
From what I have read about his position over the years, he sounds
like a typical
lukewarmer.
But the skeptics and
lukewarmers do themselves no favors by making it harder for them to ever do so by attaching emotionally - loaded words
like «dishonest» in describing them.
Perhaps we all just
like being a «
lukewarmer»; it reminds us of Star Wars.
I come into contact with a wide variety of applied science practitioners of many disciplines including biologists, engineers of several flavors, chemists, etc. etc. and I only know one that is not basically what I believe is termed a «
lukewarmer» and the one person (professional) that's not skeptical is a environmental scientist (and he debates
like a wet noodle, all he'll say is most climatologists agree.....
I think this is where the
likes of Mosher have been going with the «
lukewarmer» meme from the beginning, DC's digging out the old Ravetz posts at WUWT and various other things makes it clear that this has been an ongoing process for quite a long time.
Of course as a full blown denier I expect once they get done with the
likes of you
lukewarmer's they will be looking for me next.
The whole thing reads
like a
lukewarmer manifesto.