There are many
skeptics blogs out there, but I didn't see enough science on them for my tastes.
Not exact matches
Ah, yes but on
skeptic blogs you'll find these seemingly reasonable people who think it's legitimate to debate whether or not it's cold enough in Antarctica ot make CO2 snow
out of the air.
Blogs of those variously called climate realists /
skeptics / deniers are hammering on the chilly conditions, presumably in hopes of fending off a new push to close
out the climate bill in the Senate.
That
blog was pointed
out by a friend as being a
skeptic blog worth watching.
It is somehow unsurprising that your sources for «climategate» are a series of cherry - picked,
out of context quotes from one of the British tabloids that hyped the faux scandal in the first place, and a «
skeptic»
blog.
I've seen
skeptics both on and off the
blogs make some pretty ridiculous statements as well, but that doesn't lead me to believe anyone questioning the IPCC does so
out of fear of a One World Government.
Then we can also assume that you would expect every «
skeptic»
blog out there to make similar qualifications every single time they mention the «pause.»
Reporters need to actively ferret
out these problems on a weekly basis rather than waiting until climate
skeptics and
blogs discover them and blow their significance
out of proportion.
I've already detailed critical problems with Gelbspan's narratives about his «discovery of
skeptic corruption odyssey» in my January 22, 2014 and May 9, 2014
blog posts, regarding the way he supposedly found
out that
skeptic climate scientists were «paid industry money to lie», and regarding the questionably short time frame in which this took place.
One of the first «
out» climate
skeptics was an Australian named John Daly — who believed, probably correctly, that climate change has a lot more to do with solar activity and multi-decadal cycles than with CO2 — and maintained a
blog which became a magnet for the climate resistance.
Amusingly the
blog denizens who are in the habit of contradicting climate
skeptics get just as dismissive when ocean oscillations are pointed
out to them as the
skeptics do when the big rise in CO2 and temperature over the past half century is pointed
out to them.
You can see the general idea of BEST laid
out in a
blog comment made by me (at Lucias) to a question asked by Judith; What do
skeptics want to see.
On AGW skeptical
blogs, however, just as is the case on conspiracy theory
blogs of any kind (e.g. vaccination, moon landing, 9/11), it seems like there is a tacit agreement between fellow
skeptics, and also the
blog host, never to point
out that an idea is flat
out wrong or an argument flat
out illogical so long as it purports to refute the «official» account.
Yes, it's true — skeptical, legitimate climate scientists like the ones who run this site have been very frustrated by the deliberately deceitful pseudoscience, outright lies — and most recently vicious personal attacks against them — that have been cranked
out for the last couple of decades by fossil fuel industry - funded frauds and cranks and given unwarranted legitimacy by the mass media, and regurgitated ad nauseum on
blogs everywhere by Ditto - Heads who unquestioningly believe whatever drivel is spoon - fed to them by the phony «conservative» media, and call themselves «
skeptics» for doing so.
Not that this post has anything to do with the various ad hominems tossed at the
skeptics, but it seems that comparing climate skepticism to other forms of anti-science cranks and medical quacks seems to be the [not so subtle] M.O. of one
blog over at Science
Blogs [even if they don't go
out of their way to actually make that comparison, having it on their list is enough to give one that impression]: http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/
9/15/16: Although seemingly
out - of - sight -
out - of - mind from this fellow's
blog for months at the time of November 2015, I still was living rent - free in his mind so much that he felt compelled to mention my name while offering some spin on what constitutes «evidence» proving
skeptic climate scientists were corrupted by industry money.
And whereas Jones made his remark in a «private» e-mail, this «
skeptic» did so on a
blog that anyone could read,
out in the open, with the explicit goal that people would be able to see this.