Monday, November 30, 2009

The perverse skills of climate change deniers - Eureka Street
A well orchestrated campaign by the fossil fuel industry has fed denial of climate change.
Who, specifically, is "orchestrating" the worldwide response to ClimateGate?

[Why can't you just make low guesses about natural variation, then blame SUVs for the rest?]: Caltech scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan
"We may have found an example of present-day climate change, analogous to Milankovitch climate cycles on Earth, on another object in the solar system," he says.
[Snicker-worthy: Yet another AGW believer seems prepared to throw in the towel] : Respectful Insolence
Even if the fantasies of AGW denialists dreamed in their wettest dreams about these leaked e-mails were 100% true and AGW was found not to be valid science, it would say nothing--absolutely nothing--about whether or not evolution is valid as a theory, and vice-versa. Ditto AGW and HIV/AIDS denial or vaccines. If AGW were to fall, it would say absolutely nothing about the science behind HIV or the science showing that vaccines do not cause autism and that they are safe and effective. They are all independent scientific problems, and in the exceedingly unlikely event that the denialist cranks who rail against any of these areas of science were every somehow vindicated to the point where the scientific paradigm had to move in their direction, it would say nothing about the other areas of science. As the Sensuous Curmudgeon observed, even if AGW were revealed as a scam, it shouldn't affect the rest of science and most assuredly would not lend credence to creationism, HIV/AIDS denialism, or anti-vaccine beliefs. We already know that "intelligent design" creationism is pseudoscience. Even if we were to find that AGW or any other science were pseudoscience, it would not lend any credence whatsoever to ID.
Climategate: Science Museum’s green propaganda backfires – Telegraph Blogs
Expect to see a great deal more public disgust at this kind of officially-sanctioned eco-bullying over the next few weeks. Climategate was a game changer. We’ve had enough.

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