[1] Global
warming conspiracy theorists typically allege that, through worldwide acts of professional and criminal misconduct, the science behind global warming has been invented or distorted for ideological or financial reasons, or both.
The biggest danger represented by Brulle and other Great Global
Warming Conspiracy theorists is that, as they work to discredit their adversaries and ban them from the public debate, they attack science itself.
Not exact matches
The critical responses I have received can largely be categorized into two camps: those who feel that the article labels every
conspiracy theorist as mentally ill and those who feel that it is unfair to group skepticism toward global
warming with other «crazy»
conspiracy theories such as aliens and Area 51.
The only real hoax here is that van der Linden is throwing global
warming skeptics under the bus with
conspiracy theorists who believe that nasa faked the moon landing, the government holds aliens hostage in Area 51, and the Boston Marathon bombings were an inside job.
The article is almost completely geared to «proving» that global
warming skeptics are
conspiracy theorists.
My only real beef is that, while they are satirizing
conspiracy theorists and global
warming deniers, they probably reinforce the myths more than dispel them.
«What kind of deranged
conspiracy theorist would you have to be to suggest that all these different groups with different interests would be working together to lie about global
warming?»
I think the appeal in engaging with SebastianH is that he actually believes that CO2 functions like a «blanket» in the atmosphere and thus
warms the oceans, melts glaciers at their base, raises sea levels to catastrophic heights, acidifies the oceans, kills off 30,000 species per year, browns the Earth (desertification), etc., and that he is so convinced of the «rightness» of his beliefs that he thinks anyone who disagrees must be insane, stupid, mathematically challenged, a
conspiracy theorist, etc..
«Climate Denier Jim Inhofe Goes Full
Conspiracy Theorist In Unhinged Rant About Global
Warming,» Desmog, August 2, 2016.
So, just to update Michael E Mann's «heroes» and villains: He'll have no truck with #antiscience Judith Curry, Lennart Bengtsson, Mike Hulme, etc, etc, but he's got major - league bromance going with the inventor of the Percentigrade scale of global
warming, a
conspiracy theorist who thinks al - Qaeda is a western intelligence operation, and a celebrity activist who's happy to take $ 9 million for an anti-fracking documentary from - what does Mann call it?
I'm sure temperature changes, weather changes... speaking of, why don't we ever hear of the apparent but controversial weather manipulation from such things as geoengineering (supposedly to combat global
warming but dismissed as
conspiracy theory) or HAARP which has often been the subject of the same
theorists that think it's possible to alter the weather..
2 April: SMH: Peter Hannam: «Conspiracist» climate change study withdrawn amid legal threats Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between
conspiracy theorists and denial of global
warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research... «Sadly, it has turned into a routine for outsiders with no scientific standing to approach, bully, or intimidate journals, editors, and academics,» said Professor Lewandowsky, now at the UK's University of Bristol.
Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between
conspiracy theorists and denial of global
warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research.»