Singing the global warming blues « The Daily Bayonet

after extensive research The Daily Bayonet can reveal another reason for climate skeptic’s success and warmist failure.

It’s the songs, stupid.

Skeptics just have better minstrels. Compare and contrast two warmist efforts with a skeptic song, if you dare.

The PJ Tatler » Another food fight breaks out in climate science.

In 200 CE there were wine grapes being grown in northern England, and about 1000 CE bread grains were being grown successfully in Greenland: it is really warmer than it was then? Doesn’t look like it — but that makes trouble for the idea that we’re warming unusually.

Chris Mooney | Is There a Bias Asymmetry Between Democrats and Republicans?

Weiler further asserts that we’re seeing this right now because the Republican party is full of authoritarians—people who think they’re 100 percent right and everyone who disagrees with them is 100 percent wrong, and who have little tolerance for ambiguity or complexity.

All my research on ideology points to this conclusion as well—but I’m not sure Weiler fully articulates how authoritarians can be so factually wrong, and also sure of themselves and unable to admit correction.

To me, what seems to occur in authoritarian reasoning is that you firmly define in your mind an outgroup (liberals, environmentalists), and you then automatically take any claim that denigrates that outgroup (socialists, traitors) to be true. And then, if this claim is refuted, you’re outraged and you come to believe the false claim even more strongly than before. You double down. (This, of course, would explain why Tea Party climate deniers are so sure of themselves.)

Last Day for Feedback on climate.gov | Planet3.0

One wonders how it will survive in the present political climate, but the US government has made a very nice effort to convey climate information.

I wonder how much traffic climate.gov is actually getting. When I attempt to graph its traffic vs Watts Up With That, I can't see the climate.gov line.