Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Groupthink or . . . Beware of Climate Labels

Over the weekend I was on an email list of prominent environmental journalists, bloggers, academics and activists in which one blogger raised the question of what terminology to use to describe those folks, you know, the skeptics or deniers. I watched in disbelief as people that I respect entertained the question in all seriousness. A climate scientist helpfully made the political connection explicit by recommending the term "inactivists." Several of the people on the list had in the past used such terms to try to delegitimize my work.