Responding to
other climate change contrarian myths from some of my fellow Toastmasters Since that Addressing the Opposition speech in March 2015, I have given three more Toastmaster speeches trying to respond to arguments from dismissive and doubtful Toastmasters in my club why they can not accept climate change.
Not exact matches
Trump may see some pushback from the
other heads of state, however, for his
contrarian views on
climate change and free trade.
So, since it is so important for the diversity of scientific thought (as well as the cold hard scrutiny of all ostensibly scientific thought — but despite the clamor for diversity and challenge, this leading site, for laying out the myriad errors of
climate change skepticism arguments, is nevertheless, among many
other similar ones, decried, denigrated, and dismissed as unworthy and worse)-- what, exactly, is the «
contrarian» position?
It is, and is thus in good company with the
other climate change myths that the
contrarians like to put out.
In March 2016, I gave this speech, My Winning proposal for you (for
climate contrarians looking to
change my mind), for Jim and
other Toastmasters who kept asking me that question.
Within the community of scientists and
others concerned about anthropogenic
climate change, those whom Inhofe called skeptics are more commonly termed
contrarians, naysayers and denialists.
«We show that the expertise and prominence, two integral components of overall expert credibility, of
climate researchers convinced by the evidence» of human - induced
climate change «vastly overshadows that of the
climate change skeptics and
contrarians,» Mr. Anderegg and the
other authors write in their paper.
It is probably inevitable that, as dealing with
climate change becomes an established concern, those who make a habit of reflexively being anti-establishment will start to deny there is a problem at all, coincidentally just as the original
contrarians are mostly moving in the
other direction (i.e. there is a problem but it's too expensive to do anything about it).
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».