Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Remember when warmist Revkin was all cautious about "single-study syndrome" when he didn't like a certain study, but then wanted us to get all excited about a single study that he did like?

“Single-study syndrome” epidemic among fossil...
[Revkin, Sept 2011] “Single-study syndrome” epidemic among fossil fuelers: Larry Bell, James “It’s the Sun, Stupid” Delingpole, Lawrence Solomon. Keep in mind this condition can afflict the green end of the climate-science spectrum, as well.
Cosmic Breitbart Climate Blunder - NYTimes.com
[Sept 2011] According to Revkin, the Big Government piece is a classic example of what could be called “single-study syndrome,” which tends to turn up whenever a political agenda is threatened or supported by a specific line of scientific inquiry. “Some new finding, however tentative, gets highlighted while the broader suite of research on a tough subject is downplayed or ignored,” Revkin told me in an email. “And few questions are tougher than clarifying the role of clouds in climate change.” The appetite for headline-grabbing conclusions, he said, gives rise to fast-and-loose science coverage that torques public discourse until it’s mainly hyperbole.
Skeptic Talking Point Melts Away as an Inconvenient Physicist Confirms Warming - NYTimes.com
[Revkin, Oct 2011]...Muller’s work doesn’t get into the “attribution” question (how much recent warming is from human or other causes), but appears to completely undercut efforts to raise doubts about the extent of recent warming.
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I encourage you to read the rest, and forward it to the temperature skeptics in your circles.

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