The sad thing is the average person really doesn’t understand the science, and so they just have to go along with what the media tells them. And when the media doesn’t very publicly admit mistakes, most people go on believing what they originally heard.
susie
Susie, you are so right! All the global warming con men have to do is to issue falsehood after falsehood, let it be reported by the media, and then sit back, confident that corrections will not be forthcoming. Global warming (aka Abrupt Climate Change) is, so far, the best con of the new millenium. It has appealed to all of those with no intellectual life whatsoever and given them a cause with which they can ‘define’ themselves and feel important and relevent.
the sad thing is that the average scientist doesn't really understand the science, much less the statistics...and much of this is a statistical exercise by people who are not statisticians.