Some of our earlier posts on the global warming denial machine and ExxonMobil: «The Denial Machine» — Canadian TV to air investigative documentary
on global warming denialists (October 26)(Includes interview with CSW Director Rick Piltz.
Not exact matches
The less data you collect
on global warming, the more room there is for a handful of
denialists to claim that it isn't really happening — that's been the story
on ocean
warming for the past decade, hasn't it?
In fact, I was by default not doubting the
global warming classic interpretation till I started reading multiple sources
on the net, and as my self - confession as a recent skeptic shows, the argument from the
denialist camp are not only convincing to petrol gulping rednecks, but also to a very scientifically minded, atheist european (although, I must admit, I like motor sports; — RRB --RRB-.
We've seen a bizarre (well, if you know the climate
denialist scene, not so bizarre) misreporting about Millar et al., focusing
on the claim that climate models have supposedly overestimated
global warming.
I have no idea what you are referring to, except perhaps that the rote regurgitation of long - since and many - times - over debunked
denialist nonsense is mercifully (and no doubt laboriously) deleted by the RC moderators — unlike every other open blog
on the Internet where any attempt to discuss the science of anthropogenic
global warming is quickly drowned out by a torrent of pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, blatant falsehoods, and hate speech against climate scientists.
But despite the onslaught from the influential
denialists, the fact remains that — according to Oreskes» own figures — 62 % of the US public «believe that life
on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce
global warming».
He maunders
on to accuse «climate
denialists» of drawing inconvenient conclusions from the recent temperature record about the rate of
global warming.
It is always good to keep an eye
on our
denialists, learn their tricks, whether it is nicotine, evolution or
global warming...
The investigative blogger Deep Climate has been working to set the record straight
on how an orchestrated campaign by members of Congress, industry - funded
global warming denialist groups and PR operatives, and professional «skeptics» has spread misleading information about the paleoclimate... Continue reading →
The explanation for this, though, rests
on an understanding of wider political and economic interests — could it be, perhaps, that this is the result of the billions of pounds pumped into the economy by professional
denialist foundations such as Nigel Lawson's
Global Warming Policy Foundation and the legions of right wing Tory backers (not to mention the combined, and substantial efforts, of the global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream
Global Warming Policy Foundation and the legions of right wing Tory backers (not to mention the combined, and substantial efforts, of the
global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream
global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream media?
With the IPCC increasingly in the spotlight, the
denialists can trivialize the entire environmental crisis simply by casting doubt
on the scientific consensus
on global warming.
Regardless of what one thinks of cap - and - trade as a policy approach, nothing looks likely to change in that arena in the near - foreseeable future, except for greater numbers
on the no - compromise corporate and
global warming denialist side.
Yet, as Festinger would have predicted, instead of falling silent, perhaps even admitting error, the
denialists have become more vehement in their attacks
on climate scientists, environmentalists and anyone who accepts the evidence for
global warming.
Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican
on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has gone a step beyond promoting his long - notorious
global warming denialist propaganda.
So
global -
warming -
denialist brochures are printed
on glossy paper.
For years, the more dimwitted of the climate
denialists have been yammering
on about a pause in
global warming.
First, let me comment
on the ABC's decision to screen the
denialist documentary The Great
Global Warming Swindle.
«Since Day 1 of this I have been calling it a non-event, a manufactured controversy by
global warming denialists trying to make enough noise to drown out any real talk
on this topic.»
This, of course, is why the
denialist community harps
on «CAGW» — catastrophic anthropogenic
global warming — despite the fact that this is not a scientific term (i.e. commonly used by scientists).
Looks like the
denialist claim that
global warming peaked in 1998 is clearly shot down (as if it had any legs to stand
on in the first place): http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece
The «hockey stick» may be a cause celebre among
denialists, but it's only a secondary part of the mainstream case for
global warming, which is based
on the physics of the greenhouse effect and the observed
warming of recent decades.
on Misrepresentation of leaked review draft IPCC climate assessment report shows intellectual bankruptcy of
global warming denialists
From ClimateScienceWatch: «Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican
on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has gone a step beyond promoting his long - notorious
global warming denialist propaganda.