Readers will know that as a lukewarmer, I have as little patience with outright CO2
warming deniers as I do with those declaring a catastrophe (for my views read this and this).
FYI, this paper is already being widely cited on blogs by global
warming deniers as proof that all of the climate models are wrong, wrong, wrong and that the whole concept of anthropogenic GHG - caused warming has been refuted.
Under this sort of rule, environmentalist groups would have to accept global
warming deniers as members / officers, and African - American groups would have to accept neo-nazis, etc..
With record temperatures the past seven months; with 2016 almost certainly going to be the hottest year globally on record (beating out 2015 and 2014); with the Great Barrier Reef sustaining massive (perhaps irreversible) damage due to global warming induced coral bleaching; and with Donald Trump bloviating about droughts and picking a global
warming denier as his energy advisor, the sooner the deniers like Smith are out of power, the better our planet — the better all of us, every human on Earth — will be.
Not exact matches
The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks
as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits
as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change -
denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global
warming science is «not settled.»
«It's akin to those who don't believe in man - made global
warming being labeled
as «
deniers»» What WOULD you call them, then?
But Tevez
denied the allegation and blamed a misunderstanding, insisting he had merely refused to
warm up — something he felt unnecessary
as he had already done so.
LONDON: Lorenzo Insigne's penalty three minutes from time
denied England another impressive World Cup
warm - up friendly result
as the video assistant referee (VAR) helped Italy salvage a 1 - 1 draw at Wembley on Tuesday.
Reaction: De Bruyne is my Man City blueprint — Guardiola (Premier League) Report: De Bruyne makes it sweet 16 for awesome Man City (Premier League) Report: Otamendi wins derby to fire Man City 11 points clear (Premier League) Reaction: Klopp calls for Liverpool focus after Euro spree (Champions League) Report: «Fab Four» fire seven - goal Liverpool into last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho pledges only «the truth» on injuries (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Rashford send Man United into last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho wants new shooting boots for Lukaku (Premier League) Report: Old boy Young downs Watford to lift Man United (Premier League) Reaction: Klopp looks on bright side after Chelsea draw (Premier League) Report: Willian
denies Liverpool morale - boosting win (Premier League) Reaction: Guardiola targets Champions League milestone (Champions League) Report: Sterling strikes late to earn Man City top spot (Champions League) Report: Young England stifle Neymar's Brazil (friendly) Reaction: Loftus - Cheek showed he can cut it — Southgate (friendly) Report: New boys impress
as England hold Germany (friendly) Reaction: Mourinho defends lack of Lukaku charity (Champions League) Report: Hapless Svilar helps Man Utd to brink of last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: «Stand up and be counted», Klopp tells Liverpool (Premier League) Report: Spurs» Kane rips sorry Liverpool to shreds (Premier League) Reaction: Guardiola proud to beat «best opponents» Napoli (Champions League) Report: Jesus earns Man City narrow win over Napoli (Champions League) Reaction: Mourinho and Klopp at odds over Anfield stalemate (Premier League) Report: Man Utd held at Liverpool
as Mourinho parks the bus (Premier League) Report: McClean breaks Welsh hearts
as Ireland reach play - offs (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Southgate admits England have long way to go (2018 World Cup) Report: Kane sends lacklustre England to World Cup (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Man City's show of force thrills Guardiola (Champions League) Report: Chelsea old boy De Bruyne gives Man City crucial win (Champions League) Reaction: «Amazing» Lukaku won't lose focus — Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Martial lead Man United in CSKA rout (Champions League) Reaction: Klopp says Liverpool on track despite stalemate (Champions League) Report: Coutinho scores
as Liverpool held in Moscow (Champions League) Reaction: Man United part of «second level», says Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Fix - it Fellaini gets Man United off the mark (Champions League) Reaction: De Bruyne masterclass leaves Guardiola purring (Premier League) Report: Mané sent off
as five - star Man City crush Liverpool (Premier League) Reaction: Alli gesture takes shine off England win (2018 World Cup) Report: Rashford redemption sends England closer to Russia (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Klopp hopes Euro progress yields transfer lift (Champions League) Report: Can brace gets Liverpool back into big time (Champions League) Report: Sterling rescue act spares 10 - man Man City (Premier League) Reaction: Conte happy for Chelsea to play the hunters (Premier League) Report: Alonso ruins Spurs» Wembley house -
warming (Premier League) Report: Lukaku double fires Man United to winning start (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger lauds Giroud after Arsenal edge Leicester (Premier League) Report: Giroud earns Arsenal madcap opening win (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger fearful of another slow Arsenal start (Community Shield) Report: Courtois and Morata gift Arsenal victory at Wembley (Community Shield)
As for pundits the Merson types are like climate scientists who
deny global
warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.
And before you label me
as a «
denier», my reference above is to AGW (what you term man - made global
warming).
That said, in general - in the United States, at least - the issue isn't so much about
denying global
warming as much
as it is about protecting and favoring the major fossil fuel industries:
Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global
warming without making people feel helpless or fueling
deniers by coming across
as alarmist.
Christopher Miles What bothers me is that there is still so much waste in the system
as the
deniers continue to say how Global
Warming cult will kill economy.
Environmental groups have been frustrated by the Bush administrations rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what Sohn describes
as its tendency to
deny, deflect blame and delay when it comes to issues involving global
warming.
In so far
as some sceptics and
deniers are proclaiming that carbon dioxide - induced anthropogenic global
warming may be «the scientific fraud of the century» then surely the issues surrounding it must be the scientific debate of the century.
Climate - change -
denying politicians like to point to the cold snaps
as some sort of proof global
warming is not happening.
Although some correspondents seemed eager to jump to the exact global
warming —
denying conclusions Keppler and Röckmann had cautioned against, others expressed a more thoughtful attitude
as to how this discovery might affect our understanding of global climate change.
As I understand it, the GCR - idea does not
deny human influences on global
warming and does not really provide a good estimate of what the magnitude of GCR influences might be.
He is clearly not
denying that
warming is taking place insofar
as he specifically endorses temperature records showing that
warming is taking place, and he is also concerned about human contributions to these changes.
But
as far
as I can tell, most sceptics don't flat out
deny greenhouse gas
warming, but they incorporate their «extra» forcing by assuming a lower climate sensitivity.
I had thought there was a legitimate scientific debate about the role of global
warming and hurricanes, but it appears that the
deniers, although they are legitimate scientists, seem to have fallen in with the think tank ideologues and PR lobbyists who masquerade
as scientists.
Global Climate Coalition dissolves
as many corporations grapple with threat of
warming, but oil lobby convinces US administration to
deny problem.
Wolford 200
denier tights to keep me
warm,
as well
as the layering with a Maison Martin Margiela x H&M turtle neck, and Pauw leather biker jacket (similar low budget, or high end).
As a huge Batman nerd, I'm a bit biased to this film, but how can you
deny that powerful stories about a marathon runner, a boy with cancer, a cop, and wealthy guy who dresses up and visits sick kids at hospitals isn't heart -
warming and inspiring.
And, adding insult to injury,
as the years go on and global
warming becomes harder to
deny, BIG CO2 will have the regulatory / legal costs
as well.
As the world gets
warmer (which no one is
denying) you are going to see more instances of high temperatures, including more record - setting highs and less record - setting lows.
2000 The Global Climate Coalition dissolves
as many corporations grapple with the threat of
warming, but the oil lobby convinces the U.S. administration to
deny a problem exists.
Numerous
denier arguments involving slight fluctuations in the global distribution of
warmer vs cooler sea surface areas
as supposed explanations of climate change neglect all the energy that goes into ocean heat content, melting large ice deposits and so forth.
The claims of global
warming deniers that public opinion is on their side are
as bogus
as their pseudo-science, pseudo-economics and pseudo-ideology.
I've been fascinated by how,
as the global
warming debate went on, the
deniers all suddenly began to attack windmills.
I find the distinction just
as useless
as «
warmer» or «
denier.»
While RealClimate has called into question the soundness of the paper's quite narrow conclusions of discrepancy between model predictions and measurements of the relative rate of
warming of different levels of the atmosphere over the tropics, this paper is being touted by the
deniers as showing that the models are wrong to predict any
warming at all, and that predictions of future
warming and climate change can be entirely discounted.
As usual with any Post article that discusses global
warming and climate change, the comments are already dominated by sneering, arrogant
deniers who ignore the actual content of the article and launch into their scripted, robotic, idiotic diatribes.
This is contributing to all of us going down the tubes together
as a result of global
warming skeptics and
deniers who are playing around with the well known casino rule of «gambler's ruin» by always betting against the house.
And, Radge, I don't
deny the realities of global
warming, I don't assume that scientists (
as a body) don't practice what they preach, nor do I intend to imply that they are hypocrites.
Of course,
deniers will immediately recognize that Gavin's choice of smooth versus chunky peanut butter, and red versus black ants, and odd versus even numbered dominoes, all biased the model towards a preplanned
warming trend,
as later confirmed by his personal text messages, to be released on WikiLeaks in coming months.
Global
warming deniers however,
as you have said, are obsessed by water vapour and good information is needed to show them how they are fooling themselves.
I don't know squat about other planets (& not much about Earth), but it seems contrarians are using «
warming of other planets»
as a reason to
deny AGW here on Earth.
I don't
deny that currently we might be in a
warming trend, but I also understand that the geologic period we are in is referred to
as an interglacial period.
The global
warming denier blogs, where this issue first came up, seem to think that I was being critical of the I.P.C.C. report in the same way
as seen from their perspective, and,
as a result, I have received e-mails from the
denier crowd hailing my remarks and commending me for «speaking up» on this important topic.
Those who
deny global
warming are for me in the same class
as Holocaust
deniers and have more of an ulterior motive than critically thinking about the reality humanity is facing.
You might argue that e.g. global -
warming deniers are not ignorant,
as they are typically well aware of the body of scientific knowledge that they choose to actively disbelieve, so they are not a proper subject of agnotology
as I understand it.
Stratospheric cooling accompanied by surface
warming is actually PREDICTED by GHG model yet GW
deniers present the stratospheric cooling part
as «proof» that global
warming was NOT happening!!
As I understand it, the GCR - idea does not
deny human influences on global
warming and does not really provide a good estimate of what the magnitude of GCR influences might be.
As a «rate this comment» feature, you should have a thermometer graphic, that ranges on the scale of frigid (
denier) to cold (skeptic) to
warm (believer) to hot (alarmist).
Any speculation (or better, refutation, $ 1000 paid,
as posted this site earlier) re why not just
warming «
deniers» but supposed doomsayers don't stress this?
My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such
as those by global
warming deniers.
(infamous
DENIER David Evans) * The line of Empirical Evidence (peer reviewed, published, replicated) that humans are causing global
warming is
as follows:.
But what is surprising is that notorious global
warming denier S. Fred Singer was described at a skeptic conference today
as a Nobel prize winner, a flat out lie.