Global warming and grumpy scientists

Al Gore, self-appointed spokesperson for global warming, certainly should have understood this, and he should have sold his energy guzzling house and his private jet the day he decided to get into this. I can understand having the first climate change summit in Rio, but the conference in Bali should have instead been a massive Internet teleconference.

The behaviour of many of the scientists has been pretty miserable, but the bar is set lower for them as they can't be expected to understand how modern politics works. They have shot themselves in the foot numerous times by withholding data and code, cherry-picking data and creating scary hockey sticks, by sounding arrogant and dismissive of skeptics, and quite often by letting politicians make outlandish statements without offering corrections. They have been tonedeaf and deeply ignorant of process. Meanwhile, the eclectic and open nature of the Internet has proven ideal for skeptics, who after all only need to point at flaws in the science--it really is a lot easier to criticise than to propose a new theory.

Twitter / James

Laughing at the intellectually bereft church of global warming fundies online. Debating them is same as debating any other religious fundie

Twitter / Michael Withers

Listening to Wheels with Ed Wallace... He says that global warming isn't as bad as politicians make it out to be.

Twitter / Corey Hickmann

Comfortable 39 degrees this morning in northern minnesota, global warming is great

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