tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post645571493597336050..comments2024-03-26T15:37:57.556-07:00Comments on Idiot Tracker: Climate deniers losing the argumentTheTrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-4525452099928454732012-10-22T07:08:53.508-07:002012-10-22T07:08:53.508-07:00There were two reasons why I started a blog.
1) T...There were two reasons why I started a blog.<br /><br />1) To spare others on the messageboard where I posted from my long posts on AGW.<br /><br />2) And... This is the more important... I've been sick for some years of the denialists clogging up Google with their guff. So I concluded the only way we can oppose this is by starting off our own blogs telling the science as it is without the lies, distortion and spin.<br /><br />I still think 2 is vital. More people should start blogs. They don't need to do novel stuff, merely linking to news and other realist blogs that they find interesting / alarming, is enough.<br /><br />The denialists have given the impression that they own the blogo-sphere. I think the tide is turning on that. But we need more voices crying out the alarm.<br /><br />We live in serious times, silence is complicity.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843133350978717556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-18672489098028696052012-10-21T09:26:40.402-07:002012-10-21T09:26:40.402-07:00Exactly, and I think gently helping that process a...Exactly, and I think gently helping that process along is one of the positive contributions we can make. Some people say "Why pick on them?" And I answer: "Did you convince the hardcore racists they were wrong about blacks voting? Did you convince the vocal sexists that women belonged in the workplace? You didn't: but the public discourse ultimately shifted to the point where those people were embarrassed to express their prejudice." And that is how these bitter social and political debates finally get (relatively) settled.TheTrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-39375570123663367372012-10-21T03:20:33.060-07:002012-10-21T03:20:33.060-07:00...and climate change denial is a feature of mainl......and climate change denial is a feature of mainly UK and US media.<br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121004200933.htm<br /><br />Reality will attend to the denialist jerks. But Tracker, you're correct, the denialists are a minority, and a losing one at that. Having the same psychological pathology as pub-bores and internet trolls they won't shut up, no matter how the evidence stacks up against them. We're already seeing what they will revert to - paranoid conspiracy theories. As a former sceptic I know that the time for honest scepticism is long gone, what remains are the dregs who are either too ideologically driven or too stupid to grasp reality.<br /><br />The world is moving on, both in terms of public mood and the physical process, and the denialists are left ever more isolated in their own fantasies. By 2020 when a denialist opens their mouth most people will be making excuses and moving away from 'that loony'.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843133350978717556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-43551868116747061982012-10-19T11:43:28.529-07:002012-10-19T11:43:28.529-07:00BCC,
I know Nate Silver did a couple posts on th...BCC, <br /><br />I know Nate Silver did a couple posts on that. I believe one of them included reference to recent peer reviewed work.<br /><br />-blueshiftAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-31384326183408415842012-10-19T10:06:35.154-07:002012-10-19T10:06:35.154-07:00It's also been observed- can't find the li...It's also been observed- can't find the link/reference- that peoples' concerns about global warming increase when the weather is hot. So, "skeptics" hold a losing hand; the issue is how long they can continue to bluff.<br /><br />I'm glad to see the trends reverse here.BCChttp://epiphron.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.com