The conservative blogs lit up with "news" yesterday that non-climate scientists from NASA "signed a letter" against climate change. This is the latest weird media plant by climate change deniers who wear the cloak of respectability but lack both credentials and science to support their opinions. Climate change deniers are a minority shrinking faster than glaciers. What's to account for the phenomenon? Most likely: the pile-up of extreme weather events -- the non-winter that affected much of the nation and March tornado madness -- has big polluters and conservative foundations they fund all knotted in a bunch.
The blog, Skeptical Science, quickly responded to the latest, "NASA Climate 'Skeptics' Respond with Science! Just Kidding". Calling them out as another in a line of "fake experts", here is the response, posted on 12 April 2012 by dana1981
"Almost exactly two years ago, John Cook wrote about the 5 characteristics of science denialism. The second point on the list involved fake experts. These are individuals purporting to be experts but whose views are inconsistent with established knowledge. Fake experts have been used extensively by the tobacco industry who developed a strategy to recruit scientists who would counteract the growing evidence on the harmful effects of second-hand smoke."
We have seen many examples of climate denialists producing long lists of fake experts, for example the Oregon Petition and the Wall Street Journal 16. Now we have yet another of these lists of fake experts. 49 former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) employees (led by Harrison Schmitt, who was also one of the Wall Street Journal 16) have registered their objection to mainstream climate science through the most popular medium of expressing climate contrarianism - a letter. As is usually the case in these climate contrarian letters, this one has no scientific content, and is written by individuals with not an ounce of climate science expertise, but who nevertheless have the audacity to tell climate scientists what they should think about climate science..."
People are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts. For facts: read here, on the denialists.
The blog, Skeptical Science, quickly responded to the latest, "NASA Climate 'Skeptics' Respond with Science! Just Kidding". Calling them out as another in a line of "fake experts", here is the response, posted on 12 April 2012 by dana1981
"Almost exactly two years ago, John Cook wrote about the 5 characteristics of science denialism. The second point on the list involved fake experts. These are individuals purporting to be experts but whose views are inconsistent with established knowledge. Fake experts have been used extensively by the tobacco industry who developed a strategy to recruit scientists who would counteract the growing evidence on the harmful effects of second-hand smoke."
We have seen many examples of climate denialists producing long lists of fake experts, for example the Oregon Petition and the Wall Street Journal 16. Now we have yet another of these lists of fake experts. 49 former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) employees (led by Harrison Schmitt, who was also one of the Wall Street Journal 16) have registered their objection to mainstream climate science through the most popular medium of expressing climate contrarianism - a letter. As is usually the case in these climate contrarian letters, this one has no scientific content, and is written by individuals with not an ounce of climate science expertise, but who nevertheless have the audacity to tell climate scientists what they should think about climate science..."
People are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts. For facts: read here, on the denialists.
2 comments:
All religious fundamentalists among us beLIEve they need to speed up all calamities to smooth the path for the coming of messiah. They are thrilled about meeting their violent maker.
Is there any possibility of acknowledging that the Climactic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (just the preeminent and most respected global warming and climate research center in the world) was caught cooking the books and their data in support of global warming and discussing how to freeze other climatologists out of professional journals and publications. These are the very people whose research is cited and used by the UN as incontrovertible evidence of anthropogenic global warming. This revelation rendered serious consideration of anthropogenic global warming laughable. To state that the matter is settled is akin to asserting Mr. Obama is a good President.
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