The whole global
warming debate reminds me of the rule that if you say something enough times to enough people it becomes accepted as fact for no other reason that everybody is saying it.
Not exact matches
Gavin, I agree with what you say above, but differ from you only to
remind ourselves that, in the larger
debate, well outside the paleoclimatology community, the hockey stick has supported important «tenets» (as Anderegg et al say) of the anthropogenic
warming concept.
My recent Twitter
debate with John Stauber, co-author of the «Trust Us, We're Experts» book,
reminded me of a particularly embarrassing embellishment error that pops up elsewhere among efforts to portray experts on man - caused global
warming as authoritarians above reproach.