Are the wackos wacko enough? : Stoat

A while ago I reported Watching the Deniers say that "There will be no US Congressional investigation into "Climategate": or how global warming sceptics got duped" and commented that Even the wackos aren't really wacko enough to take on the science. But! Maybe I'm wrong.

Chris Mooney | Criticism Intensifies of New Mexico’s Climate Denying Energy Secretary, Harrison Schmitt

It’s bad enough to have someone who thinks this way about environmentalists heading an agency whose mandate includes environmental conservation. But in some ways still worse is what we might call Schmitt’s hyper-wrong technical arguments used to support his climate denialist position.

Moon walker, climate change denier | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

...sea ice extent is not a good measure of warming; instead, volume is a much better indicator.
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This isn’t exactly, pardon the expression, rocket science. The graphs are pretty clear. Whether you think global warming is manmade or not, the fact of the matter is it’s occurring. We’re experiencing it right now, and all this noise and distraction and, frankly, distortion of the data won’t change that fact. Walking on the Moon is a magnificent achievement, but it doesn’t make you any more likely to be right when it comes to the climate.