First, the press release on this new opinion hit-piece masquerading as peer-reviewed science that smacks of desperation, especially in light of the fact that “climate change” seems to be disappearing from grant applications.
Science community considers approaches to climate disinformation
Despite overwhelming scientific agreement on the question of human-caused global warming, a major gap exists between this consensus and the public’s understanding of the issue. Writing in BioScience, Jeffrey A. Harvey, of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and his colleagues examine the causes of the consensus gap, focusing on climate-denier Internet blogs and the ways in which they use topics such as Arctic sea ice extent and polar bear well-being to foment misapprehensions about climate change among the public.
Harvey and his colleagues performed an analysis of 45 climate-denier blogs, noting that 80% relied primarily on a single denier blog for their evidence, which itself had a single author who “has neither conducted any original research nor published any articles in the peer-reviewed literature on polar bears.” This paucity of expertise and evidence is common among such blogs, say the authors, as are personal attacks against researchers and attempts to misstate the extent of scientific uncertainty about crucial issues. Such narrowly framed attacks are designed to generate “keystone dominoes,” say the authors, which deniers can then use as proxies for climate science as a whole. “By appearing to knock over the keystone domino, audiences targeted by the communication may assume all other dominoes are toppled in a form of ‘dismissal by association.'”
Such misinformation poses a particular problem, because “among users, trust for blogs has been reported to exceed that of other traditional news or information sources.” To counteract the blogs’ pernicious effects, the authors argue that scientists must now engage in the “trench warfare” of public debate: “We strongly believe that scientists have a professional and moral obligation not only to inform the public about the findings and implications of their research but also to counter misinformation.” This fight, the authors caution, may require an adaptation of tactics: “Many scientists mistakenly believe that debates with deniers over the causes and consequences of climate change are purely science driven, when in reality the situation with deniers is probably more akin to a street fight.”
To this end, the authors close with a call to action: “Scientists need to more effectively use Internet-based social media to their full advantage in order to turn the tide in the battle for public opinion.” By taking the fight to blogs, YouTube, and other social media, say the authors, scientists themselves may close the consensus gap, an effort they urgently encourage. They further argue that a failure to influence public attitudes may create acute problems for numerous ecosystems; in the absence of greenhouse-gas mitigation, “the prognosis for polar bears and other Arctic biota… is bleak.”
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Link to the paper: open access, I suggest you read it: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/bix133/4644513
One thing about the paper, they claim they surveyed “45 climate-denier blogs”, yet offer no supporting data or methodology I can find. There’s no Supplemental Information (SI), and nothing in the paper that shows any data whatsoever. This relegates the paper to being an opinion piece (or rather a hit piece given the open vendetta against climate skeptics that has been displayed by Lewandowsky and Mann). Plus, for a science journal to use the word “denier” is quite troubling. It is mind-blowing to me that a journal would publish “denier” used as a pejorative label with a broad brush. They expose themselves to legal issues of defamation in doing so.
From the opinion piece: “Scientists need to more effectively use Internet-based social media to their full advantage in order to turn the tide in the battle for public opinion.”
Remember that poll about social media I conducted a couple of weeks ago? Here is the results. It suggests that we should be more engaged, especially after the call to action by the Lew-Mann syndicate.
Today, here is a response by Dr. Susan Crockford, who was named in the opinion piece. WUWT was also named, but of course, I was never contacted by any of the “researchers” to ascertain my opinion or my “denial” status.
Polar bears refused to die as predicted and this is how the propheseers respond
The polar bear experts who predicted tens of thousands of polar bears would be dead by now (given the ice conditions since 2007) have found my well-documented criticisms of their failed prophesies have caused them to [lose face] and credibility with the public.
Although the gullible media still pretends to believe the doomsday stories offered by these researchers, the polar bear has fallen as a useful icon for those trying to sell a looming global warming catastrophe to the public.
Here’s what happened: I published my professional criticisms on the failed predictions of the polar bear conservation community in a professional online scientific preprint journal to which any colleague can make a comment, write a review, or ask a question (Crockford 2017). Since its publication in February 2017, not one of the people whose work is referred to in my paper bothered to counter my arguments or write a review.
They ignored me, perhaps hoping the veracity of my arguments would not have to be addressed. But it has not turned out that way. Now, too late, they have chosen a personal attack in the journal BioScience(Harvey et al. 2018 in press).
Harvey et al. (“Internet blogs, polar bears, and climate-change denial by proxy”) pretends to be a scientific analysis on internet blog posts about polar bears, climate change, and Arctic sea ice but single me out for their peculiar brand of “scientific” smearing because most of the polar bear content on the blogs they examined (80%, they estimate) came from me.
You wouldn’t know from the paper, for example, that I am a professional zoologist with a Ph.D. in evolution (with polar bears in my dissertation), only that the GWPF describes me as “an expert on polar bear evolution” (as if this is probably a lie).
The authors state: “Crockford vigorously criticize, without supporting evidence, the findings of several leading researchers who have studied polar bears in the field for decades.”
Anyone who reads my blog or has read my paper knows this is the opposite of what I do.
The fact that I criticize with supporting evidence is precisely why these “leading researchers” feel so threatened and why the paper had to be written.
These misrepresentations alone tell you all you need to know about the motive behind the paper and the accuracy of the rest of their statements about me and others.
The long list of co-authors joining in on this attack includes several psychologists, one of whom has written similar papers before, as well as serial-litagator/climate change champion Michael Mann:
BioScience is an interesting choice for this “Forum” paper: I counted only 4 polar bear research papers in this journal since 2004 but 11 papers on “climate change denial” since 2010 (not including this one). In other words, few polar bear scientists would usually read this journal but many people interested in the “problem” of “climate change denial” would seek it out.
You can read it here (open access).
REFERENCES
Crockford, S.J. 2017. Testing the hypothesis that routine sea ice coverage of 3-5 mkm2 results in a greater than 30% decline in population size of polar bears (Ursus maritimus). PeerJ Preprints 2 March 2017. Doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2737v3 Open access. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2737v3
UPDATE: Dr. Judith Curry weighs in.
This is absolutely the stupidest paper I have ever seen published https://t.co/jBSiJ1DMlL pic.twitter.com/XnuRZDrsUt
— Judith Curry (@curryja) November 29, 2017
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Hilarious- the public knows they got it wrong on polar bears, repeatedly pointing that out unfairly prompts questions about what else they got wrong…
So what did they get right?
Some of the grammar. Probably. The date, perhaps?
Definitely a shorter list, perhaps countable on one finger
“they claim they surveyed “45 climate-denier blogs”, yet offer no supporting data or methodology…”
They provide a number, perhaps pulled out of a hat – perhaps not – but provide no support or backup for their claim by providing links to those blogs, resources, or quoting any of them.
So am I supposed to believe anything The They Team (Lex/Mann) say? How can I?
In any debate, the subject is presented, positions declared, and resources/references are quoted and backup provided, if needed. This is sloppy work by Lex/Mann. They know better but do not appear to care to do this rebuttal business properly.
In my opinion, this arrogant, pusillanimous, and lazy behavior marks them as amateurs, not as REAL scientists. I’m having serous doubts about both their credentials and their credibility.
The middle finger, perhaps?
80% relied primarily on a single denier blog for their evidence
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I relied on realclimate.org. every time they censored me for asking a question I knew they were full of crap. They couldn’t answer my questions without contradicting themselves so they disappeared them. And these are the “top” climate scientists.
Anytime someone can ask a question in science that leads to a contradiction, you can be sure the science is wrong. Somewhere there is an assumption in error. An important piece of the puzzle is missing.
debates with deniers
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didn’t schmuck run away with his tail between his legs to avoid a debate with spencer?
What Sara, said!
With a tiny quibble.
Since amateurs are more professional than these authors have proven themselves to be, repeatedly; just list them as empty hollow scientists, or perhaps the honorific “Quack” is best.
Sara, you’re only starting to have those doubts *now*? 🙂
Sara, given the fact that they rarely provide any background or supporting data for their claims in the rest of their “climate science” papers, why should this one be any different?
Anything by Lewandowsky and Mann is left-wing political garbage, by definition. So let them bring it on.
The issue is the make of the grants committees, not what the grants finance. Without addressing the people problem this will just move onto the next scam. Simply put they give each other grants. This suffocates real progress and forces government research departments, trying to do real work, to bring in vast numbers of PhD students who have no loyalty to the country or institution where the research happens. On the face of it they pay to attend the research institution. However, this payment source is often indirectly from a communist government, such as China or North Korea or a religious source, such as found in the Middle East.
The Climate Change research scam has consequences.
But, but, but … I SAW the photo of a sad-looking P.Bear clinging precariously to an obviously melted fragment of ice in the red-hot ocean. Barely clinging to life as if he were waiting for Al Gore to rescue him from the denial that caused his predicament. Tom Steyer is right. We MUST act NOW. We MUST impeach 45 now ! We must all take action. Tom told me this in a hushed, NPR-voice, with sad-eyes. Tom wouldn’t lie. He carrrreeeess about the planet … unlike Trump-voting deniers who want to wreck the world.
There. I’ve taken the fight to your blog … to help close the consensus gap. Impeach 45! Impeach 45! Impeach 45! (spoken in a South-Central LA accent).
obvious sarc. and stupidity
Better check kenji’s diet. Such vituperation is evidence of a shortage of some essential mineral. Or something.
“ By taking the fight to blogs, YouTube, and other social media, say the authors, scientists themselves may close the consensus gap, an effort they urgently encourage.”
Bring it on, I say.
Anthony’s WUWT is the top-ranked climate blog in the entire world. Where else should they come to bring the fight to us?
Here we are, Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Ben Santer, Kevin Trenberth, Phil Jones and all the rest of you.
Come and get us.
I dare you.
I can’t wait.
Farking incompetents.
Oh boy yes that is just too funny. The concept of the halfwit alarmists coming to do battle with us on the internet is sort of like CNN doing battle with the dank meme creators on the internet. If they care to turn up those guys will have their arses carved into the finest wafer-thin pastrami and handed to them on a solid silver platter.
They took the argument to RealClimate and it completely failed! RC has probably converted more neutrals to skeptics than any other website.
Plonkers, the lot of them.
“Farking incompetents”….not at fleecing us taxpayers. These folks are just evil. All they do is planned and on purpose, do not underestimate them. I hope every drop of their funding evaporates, heh.
Bloody amateurs.
Actually, while I was going to say no more than that,and referring to the tribe of Alarmists mentioned, perhaps, ” Bloody Lightweights or Bedwetters” would be more correct. Lew/ Mann etc. may be the ones exclaiming ”Bloody Amateurs” It’s a bit like ” if it weren’t for those meddling kids…” Being professional, just means getting paid for your efforts. Sure, there is an expectation of a high standard attached, but, as we can see, it doesn’t necessarily follow.
All that aside, isn’t their article a clear case of defamation? I have already had ”conversation” with a loonie tune who specifically referred to Dr. Crockford in the derogatory terms of this article. Truth be known, I’d say he never even heard of her prior to this. I do hope that she, and the others defamed by this, are able to take further action.
Eamon.
They still don’t get the problem do they, that the trust is gone because they mix politics with science. Climate Science and it’s “leading” scientists aren’t just reporting facts and data they are trying to dictate actions and the bring in other factors like world social justice, renewable energy and green agendas.
The big standout is world social justice and how and why that ever got involved. For most areas of science the process of how that gets translated into the wider world is up to individual governments, economics and companies and entrepreneurs. Our entire human history is built on inequality and the inclusion of that into a science field created a situation the field is doomed to fail until it is reformed. We have seen religious groups trying to put themselves at the centre of science and they fail for the same reason.
The fact they don’t understand why they are failing is actually very funny and I think sums up those in the activist group.
oh, they get it, all right
and they know there is no defense of their lies so they are bludgeoning with stupid because reason can not prevail against stupid.
and, indeed, that’s why the appropriate response, really, is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g1Z3V0QBpg
Those pushing climate alarmism and pseudo climate science went over the cliff of no return about 2 to 4 years ago. What we are seeing now is an attempt to defy factual physics using an explosive mix of hot air, politics, voodoo science and hand waving – they don’t seem to realize such a mix has a guaranteed tendency to keep blowing up in your face and just accelerates the fall into the abyss. I, almost, feel sorry for them..
WTF is a climate-denier?
It’s essentially denigrating (“denier” in the same vein as a WWII Holocaust denier) anyone that rightfully questions whether mankind’s industrial output of CO2 is causing catastrophic Gorebal Warming.
I have a rather different take on the term “denier.” While most people would associate the term with “Holocaust denier”, I don’t think that was the original intent.
The left is generally indifferent (or in many cases, hostile) to the welfare of Jews, anywhere, at any time. They are universally, actively hostile to Israel and Israeli Jews. It doesn’t strike me that any of them would have thought the term “Holocaust denier” was particularly offensive, and thus a useful barb against skeptics.
This line of thinking actually occurred to me while I was touring the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The exhibit in question was an amazingly well done timeline portrayal, showing how Jews in Germany were gradually subjected to Saul Alinsky’s Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” That’s what Germany did to the Jews.
I think that the term “denier” isn’t equivalent to “Holocaust denier.” In the mind of the leftist, it’s equivalent to “Jew.”
Madness isn’t it. In fact the moment somebody even brings up the word “Denier”, I know they’ve lost whatever argument they had. To link being sceptical with Holocaust Denial really is scraping the bottom and is extremely offensive.
Yes, I should have put a /sarc tag on my post. I know exactly why they use this odious nomenclature, i.e., “denier”, but as I’ve mentioned to the complete idiots I discuss climate change with, NOBODY “denies climate”.
That the term “climate-denier” has actually made it to a “real” “scientific” “paper” is reaching depths of stupidity I didn’t think even the warmest of warmism could dredge.
Again: NOBODY denies climate. Most people with a third digit to their IQ don’t deny this climate changes. Even most CAGW skeptics don’t deny that there is a component to this climate change that is partially due to humans.
So my point (other than the disgusting reference to the Holocaust) is that the term “climate-denier” is not something anyone serious about science would ever use.
Hence Lewandowsky and Mann, I guess.
Michael S. Kelly,
You pointed out a fact that has been bothering me a long time. When Stephan ‘slime it’ Lewandowsky says ‘denier’, it means about the same as ‘Jew’ in Germany in 1935.
This is a serious thing. The paper is meant to be a referrable blunt object for use of SJWs that edit the Wikipedia. This means the fight of the left to remove dissident voice becomes ever stronger.
You know, Carteret ‘sank’, polar bears died, Himalyan ice melted. They just make their spin the truth left wing believes. They don’t really care what is true, because it is a war. It is a slime war.
Michael S. Kelly
With respect, it absolutely was their original intent. Please take a look at the quotes in this article, notably the quote by Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe in 2007 (first quote):
http://www.populartechnology.net/2014/02/skeptics-smeared-as-holocaust-deniers.html
Phil R. November 30, 2017 at 12:18 pm
Thank you for that link, and I stand corrected about the original intent. I still think, however, that “denier” is the modern equivalent of 1935 Germany’s “Jew.”
Er … anyone who disagrees with their crazy religion.
Bingo!
No, no, no – it is a person who denies that there is a climate.
If you’re curious about Lewandowsky and willing to waste 5 minutes of your life:
VIEWER WARNING! – MAY CAUSE INTESTINAL DISCOMFORT!
Or anyone who disbelieves that the climate was unchanging and stable prior to Manns influence.
True it is an irony that Mann’s hockey stick requires the ‘denial ‘ of past climate change for it to be true .
Caligula Jones,
Obviously, if taken literally, it is someone who de-Nyes the existance of climate. I suppose the implication is that only weather is real and any statistical summaries of weather are not to be believed. Maybe there is something to that conclusion, considering the sloppiness of the handling of significant figures and filtering of diurnal temperatures.
WTF is a climate-denier?
Anyone who ever disagreed with or criticised Michael Mann…
Isn’t he a Nobel laureate and tree diviner and not someone who should be ever criticised 🙂
At least that’s what he says.
He may also have a cycling proficiency certificate.
And, for all I know, certificates for gallantry and rising in the morning.
A veritable polymath [I think that is the word].
Auto – not an acolyte at the Only Proven and Triumphant Church of Man [one ‘N’ only, note] Always in the Wrong, and Global Let’s Kill [or prevent from reproducing] all the Non-believers. ( No ‘d’ word here, Inspector!)
–anyone who denies the existence of climate. Not very many in other words. When I am in a position to comment I politely point out that I do not deny climate, I do not know anyone that denies climate and neither do you.
Of course what it means is someone that denies the certainty of imminent doom based on catastrophic climate change. I don’t even deny the slight possibility of it, just the certainty, as if you could put a date on it.
“Despite overwhelming scientific agreement on the question of human-caused global warming”….there is no evidence that human activity causes ‘Global Warming’ and there is no discernible sign of dangerous ‘Global Warming’.
Wrong on both counts and restating it doesn’t change that. Even Anthony and the A-team will disagree with you on your first claim.
There is “this chasm between public opinion and scientific agreement”. From the op’s link.
Make it your goal to bridge the chasm ntesdorf.
No CO2 warming signal in the satellite temperature data.
Only El Nino and ocean effects.
No CO2 warming signal ANYWHERE. !!
You are yet to produce one tiny bit of empirical evidence.
You remain EMPTY…,
and firmly nailed to your perch.
Andy… Yawn… learn to read a graph.
chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://static.berkeleyearth.org/pdf/annual-with-forcing.pdf
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BEST.. roflmao.
Massively paid AGW operatives.
Propaganda pap… regional expectations and all. !
UHI effect judged from lights at night.. so funny. !
Look at real data…. UAH, or pre-mears-folding RSS.
And its an assumption driven FANTASY.. that shows that 2005 may not be any warmer than 1750
Well done , petal. 🙂
Andy
Oh dear… maybe you would have understood the graph it is came with colouring pencils.
You seem to have lost yours.
Now nothing to do but play with yourself.
“tony mcleod November 29, 2017 at 3:36 pm
Wrong on both counts and restating it doesn’t change that.”
If the claim is wrong, on both counts, then show the evidence that proves it, otherwise it’s just another opinion.
Surely the onus is on the person making the claim?
Otherwise I could claim anything and send you off on a fools errand to find evidence to refute it.
“tony mcleod November 30, 2017 at 7:02 pm
Surely the onus is on the person making the claim?”
Such as the claims that ~4% of 0.04% CO2 *CAUSES* warming globally, and that is bad for the planet.
“Otherwise I could claim anything and send you off on a fools errand to find evidence to refute it.”
Better people than you have tried me, and failed. It is also rather difficult to refute something effect that isn’t even proven.
Causes SOME global warming, but not THE global warming. But if you ask GISS, AGW is 110% ± bignumber of all GW. But that is less than in models was predicted. So uncertainty rules over sure CAGW.
Uh-oh, does this mean no more Mr.-nice-guy from the Warmunists? We’re doomed. Might as well surrender now and get it over with.
It means skeptics are winning and warmunists are panicking. No other way to explain a paper this stupidly bad, so easily refuted by Susan’s books. They think she is unqualified and only has a blog?!?
“It means skeptics are winning and warmunists are panicking.”
Exactly!
Trump-Pence, 2020.
That has nice ring to it.
Let’s give Mikey and Co. another 4 years of soiling themselves on top of the next 3.
I think this is not panic, more a revenge and an attempt to marginalize. This is pretty much declaring Crockford shall never publish in papers that want to be friends with the authors.
“no more Mr.-nice-guy from the Warmunists”
I’m waiting……. bring it on. 😉
Judith got it right. And to single out Susan Crockford on polar bears was just dumb, when you look at the information in her blog and books. The old WW2 saying applies. You know you are over the target from the amount of flak. Another sign skeptics are winning and warmunists know it.
yeah, but now a lot of people that didn’t know Susan…will seek her out….and find out she’s right! LOL
Amazing isn’t it…after 150 years…they still can’t prove global warming is real
Yes, the Streisand Effect.
“Despite overwhelming scientific agreement on the question of human-caused global warming, a major gap exists between this consensus and”……….reality
Plus many. Exactly.
First rule of climate ‘science’ , when the models and reality differ in value , it is always realty which is error.
Until winter arrives.
Then even our friends in watermelon costumes will seek extra layers.
And, very likely, some source of indoor heating.
We had a few snowflakes [weather, not millennials] here in South London today.
None settled, and it’s a modest 2C now.
Auto, well wrapped and with the heating on!
It is the “realty” which is in error? Perhaps so — as with temperature stations, the 3 most important things are …
Being attacked directly in a hack piece like this may be slightly better than receiving the “if we ignore her she will go away” treatment (at least you know your accuser). Lynn Margulis suffered both types of attacks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis and triumphed in the end. Take hope- their screeching grows more strident with each diminished grant.
As if Dr Crockford is not someone who fits the definition of a polar bear expert? Who, pray tell, do they rely on who contradicts her methodology or conclusions?
Griff.
Heh, that made me laugh. Thanks.
“Griffe” in French means claws, generally from nasty creatures. So very convincing evidence Griff is a polar bear experts (among so many of his other expertises).
There’s also a hippogriff, a mythical creature, front half eagle, back half horse. (Make your own jokes)
I thought the back half was a lion.
“Nigel S November 30, 2017 at 5:07 am
There’s also a hippogriff…”
Two back ends of an ass more like.
Someone who SQUAWKS loudly ?
The only evidence of ‘human caused’ anything in this ‘Bioscience’ piece is the article itself is evidence of human caused denigration of real scientists.
Maybe their defence is that the CO2 level causes smear tactics!
Looks like the data molesters are getting very nervous.
The fact that this thing got published in a so called ‘peer reviewed scientific journal’ says everything about the depth of the corruption. And that they use the term “denier blogs” says everything about how hopelessly politicized it is.
If only Trump had time to tweet about this. But cutting off the funding from these sleazy extortionists is a good start.
There is no consensus on the AGW conjecture. Scientists never registered and voted on the matter. Besides science is not a democracy. The laws of science are not some sort of legislation. Scientific theories are not validated via a voting process.
AGW is just a conjecture, a conjecture based on only partial science. The AGW conjecture is full of flaws. The AGW conjecture depends upon the existance of a radiant greenhouse effect in the Earth’s atmosphere caused by trace gases with LWIR absorption bands. Such a radiant greenhouse effect has not been observed on any planet ifn the solar system with a thick atmosphere. The radiant greenhouse effect is science fiction hence the AGW conjecture is science fiction as well.
I think they were citing the scientists that are paid by the Anthropogenic Warming believers to find data based on what the ministers of climate science want them to believe. I was disappointed in the article because I was hoping to find a link to something substantial but there’s just another hit piece here. We should continue to give them a chance to prove their science is based on honest observations with all the variables accounted for. I continue to have extreme difficulty understanding how they’re right, but I try to remain without prejudice.
It just cracks me up when liberals proclaim that they don’t like the way the public is responding to their alarmism, so they must do more of the same to get a different result.
Resembles Einstein’s definition of insanity. Old Albert figured out a thing or three.
Ristvan,
“Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”
The source of this insight is not an ancient Chinese proverb, Benjamin Franklin, or Albert Einstein. People like those sources for the quote because they flatter us. As in “it takes an Einstein to see how I am wrong. ”
The truth is much harsher. This is an aphorism of Alcoholics Anonymous, its origin lost in the past. These people know everything about dysfuncationality — which is what that quote describes.
I have traced it back to Step 2: A Promise of Hope by James Jensen, a pamphlet published by the Hazelden Foundation (1980). Available here at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=DxR-WzCKfk0C&pg=PA10&dq=jensen+%22insanity+is+doing+the+same%22&lr=&num=50&as_brr=0#v=snippet&q=doing%20the%20same&f=false
“This is an aphorism of Alcoholics Anonymous”
lol, thank you LK. The “Einstein said” meme is used ad nauseam to the point its has the credibility of the “climate science consensus”.
Right, Hoyt. In the same way the liberals freak if their candidate loses an election. “It’s an attack on democracy!”
In the paper we can read the following statement.
«Pimm and Harvey (2000) provided three criteria with which to evaluate the credibility of scientific studies. First and most importantly, follow the data. They emphasized that the data trails of skeptics generally go cold very quickly.»
At the same time this paper offer no supporting data or methodology.
And these people call themselves scientists!
Science or Fiction
Dr Crockford (Crockford 2017) Science
Pimm and Harvey (2000) Fiction
Harvey et al (2018) Fiction
“First and most importantly, follow the data. They emphasized that the data trails of skeptics generally go cold very quickly.”
Well, skeptics don’t need data trails, it is the advocates of CAGW who need data trails.
The job of a skeptic is to evaluate these data trails created by alarmists. Most of the alarmists data trails are seriously lacking in honest data. That’s their major problem. They don’t have the evidence, but claim they do, and the skeptics just point out that they don’t have the evidence.
If they had the evidence, a true skeptic would acknowldege it. They don’t have it. And the data trails they do have are looking less accurate, not more accurate, as time goes along.
Yes, the Alarmists are losing the battle, and they are starting to understand it now. Before Trump, they had smooth sailing, but not anymore and the flawed data trails they have won’t help them one bit.
All Alarmists are invited to come on over here to WUWT and give us your best argument.
Tis sadly true…
When a Climate Scientist lacks credible data to support their predictions they simply model some up
I feel particularly annoyed and puzzled by this statement :
-” They emphasized that the data trails of skeptics generally go cold very quickly.»-”
because so many of the sceptic sites provide more information in the form of scientific literature than can be assessed thoroughly unless one has no other demands on one’s time .
To take just one example : the well known “notrickszone” . In November they ran numerous articles , but taking just 5 of these on subjects ranging from changes in scientific consensus to polar ice melting , the various authors amassed more than 200 references , with abstracts , numerous figures , and mainly from mainstream journals of unimpeachable reputation.
To say that sceptic sites provide no hard information is so , well basically silly , it is difficult to believe that the authors have any credibility at all in the wider world.
What matters is the quality of the info not the quantity aka, the scientific method.
This is why it stays stuck in skeptic sites, come back to reality and submit something for peer review without the usual weak excuses.
“notrickszone” is hosted by Pierre L. Gosselin
who translates and makes postings of German reports.
The ‘many references’ posts are by “Kenneth Richard”, a person that apparently never sleeps.
I am, and we all should, be grateful to these two people.
WTF… This is in response to a study of blogs?
Fascinating how the trolls assume that anything ignored by the insider sites must be of low quality.
Here’s a hint- they don’t reply to you because (a) you’re a nutter, (b) you’ve got no training whatsoever and frankly engaging you is a waste of everyone’s time, (c) they’re busy people with better things to do. It’s the same reason they don’t engage with anti-vaxxers, creationists etc. These forums are just a place for sad, lonely, overweight rapidly aging middle aged men to come together and feel slightly less down about not doing anything worthwhile with their lives.
Well thanks for explaining why you’re commenting on here then Bruce.
Bruce, there are two possibilities for thinking about your comment. 1.You forgot the sarc tag thinking it obvious. 2. You need to seek psychiatric help immediately for delusional thinking. Lets hope its 1.
A zoologist with a Ph.D in evolution, focusing on polar bears, is “no training whatsoever”? Citation needed on your claims of ‘overweight rapidly aging middle aged men’ as well, please.
Clair, I am guessing from your (hopefully real) name with an American bias, but think you just made a very nice double play on ‘Bruce’. Well done.
Citation? Pointless. I’m certain Broocie-Poo is engaging in psychological projection.
I’m giggling here on the prejudice Bruce has. Sexism, ageism, sad-ism, and weightism combined with the prejudice that Lewandowsky actually produces science. Geez! It got published, it has to be true, right? Lolz.
Say, brucie, open the basement window already. You are soaking up too much radon.
Are we sure Bruce isn’t Griff?
(Nope) MOD
Bruce is just making one of the standard arguments Alarmist make by denigrating the Website and the people who comment here.
He offers no argument in favor of CAGW. That’s because he doesn’t have a good argument to offer, otherwise he would have used that instead of doing his personal attack.
This is what you do when you don’t have an argument and you feel like lashing out in frustration.
Poor bwuce.
Your DESPERATION and total lack of any science is vivid in your every post.
You SAD, LONELY little man-child.
Bruce,
Do you think Mikey Mann has training in sociology or psychology to be an author on this paper?
The guy is a fruitcake fraud. And everyone around him are complete jokes. They’re simpletons who get triggered and retreat to university-sanctioned safe spaces if actually intellectually confronted.
“These forums are just a place for sad, lonely, overweight rapidly aging middle aged men”
Well, Bruce, out of 6 labels, you pegged me with 1 – I am indeed male. Otherwise – continuing in reverse order – I am recently retired, able to do so just before the SSA full retirement age (not middle aged); in excellent health – Wt. 170 LB, Ht 5’10”, BP <120/65, HR <65, zero meds (not rapidly aging); visited this last summer by my brother & wife, my step-daughter (from previous marriage) and her family, my son and his family. My wife and I also visited her son and family, and just spent Thanksgiving at my sons house (so not lonely); Everyone calls me fortunate for my life situation (not sad).
Bruce, were you perhaps projecting? Where would you get your ideas what readers here would be like?
SR
I’m guessing bwuce is a pimply faced, scrawny 15 year old low IQ wannabe nerd…(but not bright enough to be one)
…… living in his granny’s basement, sponging off her old age pension.
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I was right…. low IQ 15 year old.
Thanks for the proof, bwuce. !!
“These forums are just a place for sad, lonely, overweight rapidly aging middle aged men”
Bruce, certainly you forgot to add the word “white” in your inane comment.
Dern it Bruce. You are frustrating. I just now got used to saying “Caitlyn”
“Bruce here teaches logical positivism and is also in charge of the sheep dip.”
h/t Monty Python
https://youtu.be/eyVX3uJpqxc
Your average so-called creationist has far more respect for science than you or these quacks you seem to uncritically adore.
This embarrassing ‘paper’ shows they’re really getting desperate that people are seeing through their junk science. What next a paper linking anyone skeptical of their view to the fossil fuel industry, ‘flat Earthers’ and Moon landing conspiracies? ….. oh wait a minute …
Lew Paper is already readily available
Good I will print it up and use it in the loo. Lew for Loo. 🙂
So the denier blogs all rely on a single denier blog..? I wonder who they can be thinking of Anthony? Of course I have no doubt you and anyone with any sense would know that there are many well qualified people who think the consensus is absurd religious quackery, but WUWT clearly is getting so deeply under their skin. More power to your elbow
The claim of a single blog is like most climate science claims …. nonsense. What research could the authors have done to claim there is a single blog? There is at least a dozen primary blogs that continually cover different subjects at different levels of detail and probably more.
The authors have shown they are completely clueless with this one claim. They now look like they can’t even read.
Getting deeply under their skin – what the heck was spellchecker doing
From the article: “Despite overwhelming scientific agreement on the question of human-caused global warming”
This article starts out with a lie. There is no overwhelming scientific agreement on the question of human-caused global warming. This is wishful thinking or delusional thinking or deceptive thinking.
AW, my special thanks to you for giving higher visibility to Dr. Susan Crockford, her blogs, and books. BTW, I personally recommend her novel about cuddly polar bears, EATEN. A fun speed read. And I seldom read fiction, which this sort of is and sort of isn’t.
Even Coke pulled their white cans with the “Save the polar bear” scam
You know you (Alarmists) are losing when Coke pulls the Polar Bear cans! 🙂
TA,
Would you like to head the Coke PR team in this era when much of your corporate income depends on selling water artificially pepped up with CO2, the evil gas of our present times?
I wonder why Coca Copa Corp is not one of the first to research and publicise the best science about global warming to the depth required to see how fragile AGW theory is. Geoff.
Bundaberg Rum still use it though.
But Bundy Bear is a tropical polar bear, showing that warm is no problem to them. 🙂
From the article: “To counteract the blogs’ pernicious effects, the authors argue that scientists must now engage in the “trench warfare” of public debate”
If only they would!
Instead, the Alarmists will do like they always do and run and hide and refuse to make their case for CAGW in front of skeptics. They do this because they know the skeptics will destroy their arguments and make them look like fools. That’s why you don’t see any of them on WUWT. They hide over on their own Alarmist websites where they can censor anyone who disagrees with them. A bunch of cowards who can’t stand the light of day.
well, like there’s no blogs for the believers…right?
Piling on from the article, these two sentences appear in the conclusion, separated by only one paragraph. Both apparently are describing ordinary citizens:
“… ‘experts’ on denier blogs in fact typically have little in the way of relevant expertise, and their expertise is often self-manufactured to serve alternative agendas.”
“[Scientists] can also begin to encourage initiatives that empower citizen participation in scientific research, such as citizen science …”
Thus, citizens challenging AGW should be shunned, but citizens helping to affirm AGW are very much appreciated. Yep, that’ll boost the devastating punch this paper was already packing ……
Looks as though the poison gas is drifting back over their own trench.
The pea that needs to be followed closely here is the integrity of science, which in the good-old-days was just people doing experiments and constructing/testing theories, but is now being morphed into political activism. Not only are some scientivists regularly “taking-a-knee” for their pet causes, but are starting to insinuate that all scientists should do the same. It won’t be long before those who decline are name-called and forced-out of the business.
For me this paper lost all credibility when it cited the thoroughly debunked arguments of Parmesan as evidence that climate changes has been deleterious to the biosphere.
http://landscapesandcycles.net/American_Meterological_Society_half-truth.html
http://landscapesandcycles.net/climate-doom–parmesan-s-butterfly-effect.html
Does that include motorcade assaults like the ones that have already taken place?
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you. After that they attack you. Finally, you win.
But then they will not go away. They‘ll find some other cause and the process will start all over again.
The biggest problem with this saying is that it assumes that the progression is inevitable and will always move from step A to step D.
Most of the time, they never stop ignoring you.