This helps keep track of
which skeptic arguments are being used.
If you press the Menu button while looking at a skeptic argument, you get the options to copy the URL, share the URL with others (which I encourage everyone to do), open it in a browser or report this argument so we can keep track of
which skeptic arguments are the most popular.
Not exact matches
In response to a post by a Twitter user
which said Musk should provide «some very strong
arguments in a well written blog piece to win over the (myself included)
skeptics,» the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote: «Movie on the subject coming soon...» Now, why hasn't anyone thought of that before?
Then, when the
skeptic disbelieves in the space ship because of the Chad's poor argumentation and the invisible, undetectable nature of the space ship, Chad asks, «What investigation have you done to disbelieve in my invisible and undetectable spaceship
which I can not offer any good
arguments for?»
Thacker's «Viewpoint» piece spends more time questioning the motives (aka «sliming»)
skeptics by innuendo rather than discussing the substance of their
arguments (
which realclimate does better).
Another might be my earlier «climate class» suggestion, where true
skeptics are confronted with the same type of
arguments that are regularly produced here at RealClimate and
which fall into the general category of «plenty, but way too late», rather than the commonplace «too little and too late».
For the past 3 years, I have been trying to figure out how to engage
skeptics effectively in the context of # 3,
which I think is a method that can be effective in countering the
arguments of
skeptics, while at the same time being consistent with our core research values.
What lags what might seem like a good debate to have and one that has to be answered to as the
skeptics for good scientists to set up sites like this to argue the cause but come on the evidence is clear, it is not the SUN that has caused the current warming and we have a perfectly robust
argument for stating that it is greenhouse gases (all of
which has increased).
Robert, you are correct that there are many kinds of
skeptics, specifically as many as there are steps in the AGW
argument,
which is a lot.
A few weeks ago Kevin Drum argued that global warming added 3 inches to Sandy's 14 - foot storm surge,
which he said was an
argument that totally refuted
skeptics and justified massive government restrictions on energy consumption (or whatever).
I have a history with Andy Revkin's DotEarth,
which is prone to provide fuel for sloppy thinking about weather and climate, as well as a hangout for the worst kind of clever - looking phony
skeptic arguments.
My judgment is on
which side of the
argument has the experts that impress me more, and I'll let you in on some bad news — its not the
skeptics.
For «
skeptics» to make a convincing
argument that humans are not causing global warming, they must both explain where this large greenhouse gas radiative forcing has gone, and find an even larger «natural» radiative forcing
which nobody has yet identified.
«It is my experience
which guides my firm support of the proposition that
skeptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right... They do not, as some improperly suggest, «obfuscate» the issue: They assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the «consensus»
argument, and they compel necessary corrections,» he said.
The result was all the
skeptic arguments and a paragraph rebuttal on a single page
which I thought was a fairly useful and concise summary.
The
argument to «learn what else drives climate» is a complete red herring, as if scientists are not already figuring out everything they can (
which in turn is then being repeatedly re shaped to use to try to refute Climate Change by «
skeptic» websites, as is everything), and is just used as another false refutation of, or confusion on, the basic assessment and risk range that the at this point fairly well known and well substantiated general concept of Climate Change represents.
The hacked e-mails,
which were then used to support the
arguments of global - warming
skeptics, appeared to have been distributed through a server in the Siberian oil town of Tomsk, raising suspicion among some environmental activists of Russia's involvement in the leak....»
The phony
skeptic argument is that cold is not part of the rollercoaster,
which to me looks like obvious nonsense.
The excellent science and statistics blogger Tim Lambert has proposed a game called» global warming
skeptic bingo,» in
which all of the various discredited
arguments that are repeatedly used to undermine the consensus view of human - caused climate change are arranged in a series of squares.
The use of labels such as «warmist» and «
skeptic,» is symptomatic of the kind of heuristic in
which the correct inference is identified by argumentum ad vericundium (
argument from authority).
It's just a trivial possibility
which Roger Sr. and other
skeptics dismiss without
argument — and seemingly don't even think of — when they claim that heat can't be gained by deep layers without there first occurring some commensurate net heat gain in the mixed layer.
Jon wrote a very interesting paper in
which he argued that even if the
skeptic narratives are correct, the old narratives I was telling wasn't an
argument against climate action.
Girma, when I use the UAH sattelite - based temperature anomalies,
which skeptics believe are more reliable than HadCrut anomalies, your
argument disappears.
Skeptics, however, have told me the antitrust
argument may not work because patents are, essentially, official monopolies granted by the government —
which makes it hard to accuse a patent holder of being anticompetitive.