Not exact matches
There are a few «
skeptic»
sites, but most of them are not run by scientists, and the «
science» presented there is only of value in terms of entertainment.
As a lay person (albeit with a
Science degree) I find it interesting that the last 7 posts on this
site have been disputing claims by Climate Change
skeptics or data / studies that may / may not support their case.
Please, please, please, quit going to the
skeptic sites until you have enough of an understanding of the actual
science to avoid being fooled.
A key
site for addressing a wide range of questions raised by climate change «
skeptics» is Skeptical
Science (www.skepticalscience.com)-- in particular the questions discussed with references to the scientific literature at http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php.
Ironically, Rado's complaint relied on information from a web
site who's own co-founder expressed exactly the same lack of
science expertise combined with a zeal to expose «lying
skeptics» via what amounts to a never - ending complaint — a spooky parallel that's hard to miss in the fourth paragraph in my March 27, 2015 post about that co-founder.
Yes, they were interesting (and educational) times, before Climategate I didn't think much about the reasons for the great big new taxes but when Climategate occurred I took an interest and since then have become a
skeptic or denialist or whatever the current word is Perhaps what Politicisation has done in the name of
science is demonstrate that there are inquiring and courageous scientific and other minds that do not close And where's Bulldust (I think he is Australian as I am) and the coiner of the phrase «Climategate» Happy anniversary everyone, thank you Anthony for a wonderful
site
It is by climate scientists, and most
skeptics think they themselves are better expert on climate
science than climate scientists, so they find all kinds of ways to denigrate and convince themselves it is a bad
site, etc..
As to «ambush
site» — you can certainly disagree with the conclusions reached on
skeptic science; the moderators do have their own points of view (as do Jo and Watt — should I avoid them and their
sites?!).
I myself have been (temporarily) persuaded of some things by
skeptic web
sites only to find that when I look up the same topics on AGW
sites, I realize I've been swayed by rhetoric and glitzy presentation and not
science.
I've already detailed the way Desmog's founder James Hoggan essentially torpedoes his
site's entire existence with the way he first admits he knows nothing about climate
science, but is certain that
skeptic climate scientists are liars, the latter of which he derives entirely from Ross Gelbspan, the «Pulitzer - winning investigator» who Al Gore says discovered the supposedly leaked Western Fuels Association «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) PR campaign's sinister strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
I did not say that Abelson was necessarily a global warming
skeptic, though many web
sites seem anxious to debunk the idea (or at least so I found out in the last couple of days), my point was that under his editorship
Science was open to publishing articles whose findings were not supportive of the theory.
Much of this
science malfeasance has been tracked / reported by a growing legion of
skeptic sites.