Steps 1 - 3 can be very time consuming, so many users just don't bother checking out their ideas, rather, they may
rely on climate blog comments or guesswork.
Not exact matches
As posted yesterday
on our
blog and detailed in another great Guardian article, several
climate denial organizations
rely on Donors Trust for a large share of their budgets.
Yet even if we
relied solely
on NASA, NASA GISS already agreed with McIntyre even before McIntyre decided to audit
climate (i.e. before his
blog)-- in 2001.
A striking 80 percent of the
climate - denying
blogs that were analyzed
relied on one
blog in particular written by Susan Crockford — a source that the authors said «had neither conducted any original research nor published any articles in the peer - reviewed literature
on polar bears.»
This explains why Nobel Prize Winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says «I trust Joe Romm,» Thomas Friedman calls ClimateProgress.org «the indispensable
blog,» Al Gore
relies on him for technical analysis, and the Center for American Progress makes him the organization's chief spokesperson
on climate and energy issues.
My perception is that the blogosphere can be very useful if you already have a good grasp of
climate fundamentals, but if you don't, and
rely on blogs for most of your understanding of
climate, you are very likely to emerge with a distorted perspective.
«If Neil
relies on contrarian
blogs for his
climate information, that may explain why he is woefully misinformed
on the subject.»
I am an engineer and not a
climate scientist or «scientist» but I have been an active
blog reader and have been educating myself and my friends
relying on the likes of McIntyre, Watts, and, more recently, yourself.