Dessler: "Well, it makes me delete my emails when I get them a lot faster..."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/andrew-dessler-science-and-the-politics-of-climate-change/
Well, it makes me delete my emails when I get them a lot faster and makes me not communicate via email as much...
The bigger story is how there is this machine out there that's designed to try to create uncertainty about climate science. And it goes from a very small number of legitimate climate scientists — I would number them half a dozen or a dozen skeptical climate scientists — writing a very small number of papers, maybe one or two a year, and then that gets amplified by blogs and that gets picked up by policymakers, presidential candidates.
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The writing team of the NIPCC has three or four, maybe five, credentialed climate scientists. And the IPCC, on the other hand, has thousands of scientists on it, and they are experts in what they're writing on. And so, you know, it's really when you look at the details you can see how the bizarro universe is frayed and fake. It's like a New York soundstage where all the buildings are cardboard. They kind of look real from a distance, but they are not real. They are just these fake facades, and that's what the alternative universe of climate skepticism is. …
...Over that time, you get three or four skeptical papers a year. Over that same time, you probably get 10,000 papers that aren't skeptical, that either explicitly or implicitly endorse the mainstream view of climate science.