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Greg Laden: suggests James Hansen is “a Moron”

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:42

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Reblogged from the ever wakeful TomNelson’s site:
Delightfully stupid Daily Kos piece from warmist Greg Laden: He suggests that James Hansen is “a moron” for admitting that global temperature has been flat for the last decade; also “there is more money going into climate science denial than any political counter movement that has ever existed”

Daily Kos: Dollars for Deniers: Big Oil Funds Climate Science Denialism

To state, with a straight face, that the jury is still out, or that we can’t separate natural variation from human caused changes, or that the earth has stopped warming for the last decade, or any of the other things we constantly hear from climate change denialists isexactly the same thing as standing there with a big sign that reads “I am a moron.”

…Most times, though, the science-denialism comes from a handful of very active blogs, from those charismatic lecture circuit denizens such as “Lord” Christopher Monkton, and a very large number of commenters and their probable sock puppets who show up at every on line newspaper and blog to spew the same exact lines again and again even though every single remark they make … without exception … has long ago been discredited with science and reason.

It turns out that there is a fairly straight forward explanation for this continued craziness. $500,000,000 dollars.
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So, at this point there seems to be two likely answers to the question, “Why are you a climate science denialist?” One, is that you are getting paid to do so. The other, is that you really think you know better than the entire scientific community, and you are not personally getting any of of the payola even though there is more money going into climate science denial than any political counter movement that has ever existed.

Flashback: NASA’s James Hansen’s finally concedes ‘flat’ global temps: Hansen’s ‘remarkable’ comments on global warming standstill: ‘The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade…’ | Climate Depot

And for a bonus, here’s a counterblast to Greg’s ….. labelling tendencies:

Contra O’ Reilly says:

On the Idiotic Notion that the Global Warming Skeptics are Anti-Science

It’s absurd. They’re not the ones who’ve a) ignored the geological record, b) constantly mistaken cause with effect, c) ignored the satellite data, d) ignored the radiosonde balloon data, e) failed to understand the basic law of inverse solubility, f) played with and hid the data, g) utilized climate models which violated the basic principles of forecasting AND WHICH PROVED WRONG, g) failed to even entertain the notion of alternative causes (plate tectonics, underwater volcanoes, cosmic rays, sunspot cycles, the Pacific Decodal Oscillation, lunar cycles, increases in the solar field, cloud cover, etc.), h) conspired and thoroughly corrupted the entire peer-review process, i) failed to understand the logarithmic nature of the CO2/warming relationship, j) failed to understand that the earth’s climate is a nonlinear, dynamic, and chaotic system which cannot be readily reduced to the workings of A theory…………………………………………………………….And the fact that skepticism is itself such an integral part of science, that alone should have set off firecrackers. “The science is settled/the debate is over.” LMFAO

2013-01-30 12:33:11

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