There are a bunch of particularly nasty serial second law abusers hanging around climate
sceptic blogs at the moment spouting nonsense about the greenhouse effect being impossible because a cold object can not heat a hot one.
Not exact matches
At very least the publicity was so poor that it got very little uptake from the many readers of climate
sceptic blogs... of which there are much more than of consensus
blogs.
In this second exchange (1st here) between Adam Corner (Talking Climate
blog) and Geoff Chambers --(a regular and prominent commenter
at several climate
sceptic blogs), they continue to discuss research on the psychology of scepticism.
Whether Maurizio is right or wrong about the source of the error, the essential point is that he raised the possibility on a
sceptic blog, and it was discussed
at length by
sceptics.
`... the essential point is that [Maurizio] raised the possibility on a
sceptic blog, and it was discussed
at length by
sceptics.»
The How to Talk to a Climate
Sceptic guide comes up in
blogs in
at least 5 languages!
At this stage it is probably limited to the
sceptic blog community world wide (not a small number) and a few other outlets but I'd say the twitter brigade will not be far behind.
And, how ever Gavin is trying to phrase it, when I look
at the climategate, «hide the decline», MM vs. Mann, Steig vs. O'Donnell, the behavior and attitudes
at Real Climate and Tamino (the «scientists»
blogs), the issues of Nature and WMO report covers (the question, that you did not answer, by the way), I have to say I'm understanding where the perception is coming from... That is not to say that the
sceptic blogs are nice and tidy.
Along with the sheer unpleasantness of the moderators
at Real Climate and other alarmist
blogs, the Guardian's practice of summarily banning anyone who does not follow exactly the party line as laid down by the Klimatariat has driven more people to become
sceptics than any deep study of the science ever has.
Take a look
at the UK's most active climate
sceptic blog, Bishop Hill.
Prof Lewadowsky's
blog posts as one example (more to follow) taunting the 5 sceptical
blog owner he had «contacted» on his
blog and giving interviews about it —
at places like Desmogblog (a website, that has a number of those
sceptic blog owners photographed, named and shamed tagged denier, misinformed, disinformation, denial industry, amongst other derogatory labels, in it's Denier Disinformation Database online --
I commented here, politely on his first article: (pointing out thatonly antis -
sceptic blogs surveyed in LOG12) http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/conspircism-and-climate-scepticism-empirical-research-confrims-what-we-all-know-and-some-predictions/#comments August 31, 2012
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