Thursday, April 11, 2013

Cherry-pickin' English major Chris Mooney argues that climate skeptics are obsessed by Al Gore by using 2007-2010 data from one website where Gore was not even mentioned in 54% of climate change op-eds

Al Gore Is Fat, Therefore Global Warming Doesn't Exist | Mother Jones
Ever notice that when conservatives want to attack the science of global warming—or the idea that we ought to do something about it—they almost always find a way to rope in Al Gore?
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Elsasser and Dunlap demonstrate as much based upon analyzing the content of the website Townhall.com, a widely trafficked repository of conservative punditry. The scholars found 203 conservative op-eds about climate change published between 2007-2010...they were utterly obsessed with Al Gore: 93 of the 203 columns discussed him.

1 comment:

Bike Bubba said...

Um, a correlation of less than 50% does not equal "almost always." Maybe skeptics make fun of proponents because the proponents are so often--well yes like Mr. Gore, but also like Mr. Mooney--innumerate.