Addressing the "skeptics" of global warming

Someone has asked me why scientists don't go on global warming denier forums: in his words, "What are they scared of?" The answer is that they are not scared. They don't go to these forums for the same reason that scientists aren't usually seen addressing ridiculous...

Deniers of global warming harm us

AS THE WORLD'S scientists near consensus on human causes of climate change, even Exxon is cutting contributions and distancing itself from the global warming denial industry. The deniers haven't conceded defeat, and lately have found a substitute for the "sound science"...

Scientists plan to challenge deniers of global warming

On Monday, the American Geophysical Union, the country's largest association of climate scientists, plans to announce that 700 climate scientists have agreed to speak out as experts on questions about global warming and the role of man-made air pollution. John Abraham of...

How to talk to a global warming denier

Having dealt with deniers of global warming, who have in many cases been highly aggressive and unprincipled, I have come up with a quick checklist of what one needs to say if faced with a denier of global warming. The following are responses to some of the claims I have...

Fistfights and Credibility of Science

Recently a global warming scientist stated in a news interview that he felt like punching a scientist who was denying global warming. While this may appear to be undermining reputabiliy of science with American voters, there is  in fact significant scientific...

Climate Change Deniers Harassing and Threatening Scientists

"A few years ago, Ben Santer, a climate scientist with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, answered a 10 p.m. doorbell ring at his home. After opening the door, he found a dead rat on his doorstep and a man in yellow Hummer speeding away while "shouting curses at me."Santer shared...

Real Climate Change Deniers Discovered

Who Are The Real Deniers? They are: snowmobilers, skiers, snowshoers, snow shovelers, furnace repairmen, people who use or sell snow tires, doctors who treat frostbite, the countless mourners of those who have...

Bush: don't mention the genocide

"Between 1915 and 1917, the Ottoman Empire murdered up to 1.5 million Armenians in the twentieth century's first act of genocide. It's successor, the Turkish government, has been in denial ever since, but there is a growing movement around the world to recognise the crime,...

Skeptics, This Way Please

For as long as global warming has been at the forefront of the media, there has been climate change deniers muddying the public discourse and slowing progress towards solutions.The truth is nobody would spend a decade debating bed time with a 5 year old. It's now long...

US Faces the Real Global Warming Hoax

This week's cover story in Newsweek is leveled squarely at global warming deniers, outlining the concerted and well funded plan by certain industries to mislead the public and derail efforts to fight global...

Exposed: Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine

    There is an excellent article in Newsweek on-line that  traces what one hopes will ultimately be the unsuccessful tactics of global warming deniers. "This summer, Texas was hit by exactly the kind of downpours and flooding expected in a greenhouse world,...

POV Point, Counterpoint – Global Warming Opinion Intentions :: MAXINE

"Usually, it is easy to just discount the views as coming from a very liberal, journalistic, and socialist camp. That is, until her [Ellen Goodman] latest attempt to place people who want to deny that the...

HOLOCAUST DENIERS AND CLIMATE ALARMISTS

There's another war going on but this time it doesn't employ the use of bullets and bombs. Even so, it's a war, the outcome of which will have just as profound an effect on our planet as the current shooting war.It's the war between scientists for and against the global...

Canadian prof at Tehran Holocaust Conference.

"ONDON — Gathered in a Tehran auditorium yesterday were some of the world's most notorious figures: Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. And among them, somewhat incongruously, was a soft-spoken political science professor from Nova Scotia. The...

Holocaust deniers gather in Iran for conference

"An international cast of established Holocaust deniers and implacable foes of Israel were given an open forum by Iran yesterday to support Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contention that the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis was a "myth"."Now from Tehran comes a state sponsored...

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