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.
Not exact matches
Therefore, IMHO, it would be closer to the truth to call WUWT a «
skeptic» site that calls into question exactly how much the mean temperature has increased since the advent of the thermometer record in the late 1880's, how much of that is due to human activities and how much to natural cycles not
under our control, what dangers rising temperatures may pose to human life and civilization, and what technologically and politically doable actions may be taken to reduce human - caused
warming, and our dependence on foreign sources of fossil energy.
The majority of internet references I initially found credited the accusation to ex-Boston Globe reporter / book author / «Pulitzer - winner» Ross Gelbspan, and his «discovery» that the fossil fuel industry was paying
skeptic scientists «
under the table» to «reposition global
warming as theory rather than fact» — according to a leaked coal association memo he supposedly found.
But there is a consistent theme to all of them: Davies is cited just for the accusation that illicit funding has gone to
skeptic climate scientists and organizations skeptical of catastrophic human - induced global
warming; when will he finally provide actual evidence proving the funding was done
under arrangements where all parties agreed on what, when, where, and how the lies would be spread??
Ross Gelbspan, as a self - described reporter who was angered by the discovery of
skeptic climate scientists being «paid sort of
under the table by the coal industry» to spread «false information,» has had entire second career promoting the idea that we could be making better headway in stopping man - caused global
warming it it weren't for the industry funded coordinated misinformation campaign.
So again — seems to me that debates about the magnitude of sensitivity are consistent with skepticism (as opposed to «skepticism»), and debates about the physics of AGW are consistent with skepticism (as opposed to «skepticism» — and despite the attempts of some to throw those who doubt basic AGW physics
under a bus)-- but to say that you don't doubt the basic physics yet assert that global
warming has stopped is either illogical or the view of a «
skeptic» (as opposed to a
skeptic).
In the past few months, climate scientists speaking out about the dangers of global
warming have come
under increased assault, largely because of climate
skeptics voicing concerns over the information contained within certain scientists» email messages.
There's ego there, there's scathing criticism of climate change
skeptics, and there's a growing sense of themselves being
under siege by vitriolic personal attacks, by global
warming denialism, by harassment, by frivolous Freedom of Information Act requests, and so forth.
If your position is that global
warming skeptic scientists operate
under guidance from industries opposing CO2 regulation, are you prepared to provide specific proof of improper payments to those scientists, and specific proof of faults in the scientists» resulting reports that are obvious indications of industry - guided science errors?
Apparently in the same manner that he glommed onto the notion that
skeptic climate scientists are paid illicit industry money
under instructions to «reposition global
warming as theory rather than fact», it seems he didn't check the veracity of the more recently repeated «3000 IPCC scientists» figure.
Basic point being, these are people collectively operate in the realm of «climate change sociology»
under the unsupportable premise that man - caused global
warming is settled science, thus it is up to them to explain to the rest of us what's wrong with the mindset of
skeptic climate scientists....
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.
The
skeptic arguments seem to all reside
under a claim that the signature is not unique, not that it is unique to something other than GHG
warming.
Al Gore and his followers have tried to prevent this «immersion» from happening by steering the public into believing
skeptic scientists were paid to lie, and they found their best success with that tactic
under the guidance of Ross Gelbspan and his exploitation of the «reposition global
warming» phrase as a sinister «big coal & oil» industry directive.