Posted on 03/11/2010 2:24:42 PM PST by DrDavid
Climate scientists are on the defensive, knocked off balance by a re-energized community of global-warming deniers who, by dominating the media agenda, are sowing doubts about the fundamental science. Most researchers find themselves completely out of their league in this kind of battle because it's only superficially about the science. The real goal is to stoke the angry fires of talk radio, cable news, the blogosphere and the like, all of which feed off of contrarian story lines and seldom make the time to assess facts and weigh evidence. Civility, honesty, fact and perspective are irrelevant.
Worse, the onslaught seems to be working: some polls in the United States and abroad suggest that it is eroding public confidence in climate science at a time when the fundamental understanding of the climate system, although far from complete, is stronger than ever. Ecologist Paul Ehrlich at Stanford University in California says that his climate colleagues are at a loss about how to counter the attacks. “Everyone is scared shitless, but they don't know what to do,” he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Produce the data idiot!! Prove your stupid theory or go home!!
Yep, the AGW proponents certainly taught us that. Nature is citing Paul Erlich? How apppropriate......
It must suck to be so monumentally, completely wrong.
Not too surprising he's hitched his wagon to another monumentally wrong cause.
AL BORE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!
Every single sentence in the first paragraph is, at the minimum, incorrect. More likely each of these sentences is an intentional lie. That’s as far as I got.
Big G panics--The higher-ups of the AGW movement, aka Goliath, sense that something is amiss.
Said Vince Foster.
They can't. They destroyed all the original data and only kept tainted stuff that they manipulated.
This ridiculous article states the argument against AGW is "superficially about the science." What hubris! They have no REAL scientific and verifiable facts and figures to back up AGW so they just attack using words without facts to back them up.
Boy, that is real scientific, Nature.com.
You bet....FR Thread:
Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop ( global warming is exaggerated )
Gallup says....
Try admitting the truth, instead of trying to defraud us for grant money!
Dear Paul:
1. Take a deep relaxing breath.
2. Repeat slowly:
"Nothing more tragic than the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact."
“deniers who, by dominating the media agenda,”
Dominating what media?
Absolutely correct. A politically driven theory. No science at all!!
I was actually considering re-subscribing to NATURE, but the first sentence of pure, arrogant, name-calling propaganda put to rest those thoughts.
Thanks! I just finally finished ready all the comments at the “Data” link. A lot of very informed people comment there.
Note to media warmists: when the first guy you quote in your AGW defense is a complete joke with a 30-year record of predicting nonexistent disasters, it doesn't do much for your "defending science" pose.
Did you see any detail about some possible issues with ice core analysis or the ice core...whatever?
The Horror of Denial!!! This is another fun thread:
“cimate change debate grows heated (LA Times Denials...Again)”
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