Friday, April 2, 2010

Climate Change Denial

While there exists an overwhelming consensus among climatologists, there exists an ongoing and well-funded campaign to perpetuate the notion that an ongoing debate ensues. Since climatology is a subject few people know much about, it's rather easy to confuse laymen or even scientists in fields unrelated to climatology about the science. Here is an example of such a campaign, as well as an example of how such examples are fallacious.

Conservative pundits and media outlets often mistakenly cite local and/or temporary cooling trends (which predictably exist well within the overall heating trend) as ammo for deniers.



Another example is the recently hacked emails by climatologists. Climate change deniers, much like creation scientists, have quote mined these emails as alleged proof of an existing conspiracy to falsify data in support for climate change.

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