Climate Skeptic's Debunked Report Exposes How the Denial Industry Works : TreeHugger
For those who lob around the allegation that climate scientists are engaged in groupthink, just consider the degree of conformity demanded by the parties who oppose those scientists -- and the lengths they go to uphold it. There's only one important attribute you've got to have to join the club: You've got to be willing to say climate change isn't real.
The denial industry, by its nature, begets this conformity, as it is ultimately fed by corporate interests pursuing a single goal: ensuring they never have to pay for their carbon pollution. So, we get plagiarism, manipulation, even borderline coercion from various parties involved -- all in an effort to achieve that goal. That's not just groupthink -- that's corporate-sponsored, balls-to-the-wall, greed-driven groupthink right there. When such synchronized efforts are exposed in major media outlets as being baseless attacks on the scientific process, the public will hopefully begin to see through the workings of the climate change-denying industry.
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The trick was to start using the phrase "climate change " - something which happens naturally all the time but to make it mean "man made global warming" - for which the evidence is remarkably slender outside the virtual world of computer models.
It was about the same time when "carbon" replaced "carbon dioxide". "Carbon" gives an impression of sooty pollution whereas carbon dioxide is a colourless, odourless, life-essential gas. Its present level in the atmosphere is low by the standards of previous ages. Whether by design or carelessness Al Gore got it wrong. Rising temperatures are FOLLOWED by rising carbon dioxide levels after some centuries.
Obviously nobody can deny that climate change happens. The climate is cooler now than it was 1000 years ago. The 1995 IPCC report was shown to have been comprehensively doctored in the policy makers' section - to promote alarmism and to give justification for high taxes, inflated research budgets and supra national institutions of world government. That was what President Chirac said Kyoto was about. The remarkable thing is that anybody still believes a word of it. Most don't, of course but it suits big government, publicly funded science and big corporate interests to appear to continue to do so.
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