From Al Gore’s Journal:
Denialists in Denial April 27, 2010 : 4:52 PM
Last week The Wall Street Journal published a ridiculous op-ed titled “Climate Science in Denial” claiming that “global warming alarmists have been discredited, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric this Earth Day.”
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic does an exceptional job dismantling this ridiculous claim:
“Actually, the subhead should be revised: “Global warming denialists have been re-discredited, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric in today’s Wall Street Journal.” Far be it from me, a non-scientist, to dispute the scientific expertise of an MIT professor of meteorology, Richard Lindzen, but then again, Lindzen’s selective recitation of the litany of arguments against global warming practically begs a rebuttal.”
“First, he mentions “Climate Gate” — those e-mails from the Climate Research Unit from the University of East Anglia. He suggests that the e-mails show “unambiguous evidence of the unethical suppression of information and opposing viewpoints, and even data manipulation.””
“The e-mails were actually quite ambiguous and contained evidence of churlishness and defensiveness from scientists whose data had long been under attack from climate denialists.”
Much of the media has done a particularly bad job covering the climate crisis. Instead of informing the public about the facts, they have treated the issue as if the same political divisions they exuberantly cover also exist in the scientific community. They don’t.
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Hmmm, well Al Baby, here’s something to deny:
Do you think many people are reading your message on algore.com?
UPDATE: Willis Eschenbach writes in comments:
Well, I took Anthony’s Alexa Rating graph forwards, viz:
WUWT is the top of the heap, twice as good as the one in second place. (Sc) means a sceptical site, (Mid) is middle of the road, and (AGW) is AGW supporters. And Al? Well, at least he beat Tamino …
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I would not buy those figures because a lot of those who think AGW is sound science read this blog, while few deniers read Climate Progress and Real Climate.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
April 28, 2010 at 7:43 am
Don’t know if this is a woosh or not, but if not, someone who hides behind the name “Tamino” runs a site laughably called “Open Mind”. He appears to be an excellent mathematician, but his mind is closed to anything but the party line. I’ve been banned from there for asking inconvenient scientific questions … which is a clear dividing line for me between science and propaganda. RealClimate does the same, as I have detailed in a peer reviewed paper here. You’d think they’d notice that Alexa site rank (how many people your message reaches) is related to whether they censor scientific questions and contributions at their site, but I’m glad they haven’t noticed … truth is, people like to hear both sides of a debate and make up their own minds.
You laugh at Gore,but I bet he laughs too….all the way to the bank.
He is lined up to make billions if the world goes along with trying to prevent global warming by doing cap and trade or carbon trading of any kind. Why don’t more people notice the conflict of interest?
It would be interesting to use the same sites to rank who is getting the most new visitors. Or can’t this be done?
Love the new look site Anthony. That thin line depicting our atmosphere is a reality check.
REPLY: glad you noticed that, it was one of the reasons I chose the image. Wait till you see the other images coming in the banner. -A
RobertT687 says:
April 28, 2010 at 10:14 am
I have no problem being called skeptical as to be otherwise is to be gullible.
I like that… Climate Skeptics vs. Gore-ist Gullibles.
Re: Willis Eschenbach
Hi Willis.
That is a very interesting paper you wrote on the problems of scientific papers subverting scrutiny. Where was it published?
Kind Regards
Michael
Al Gore should go back to banning KISS albums. He actually had more credibility then. And i like to think I share a small part of the credit (or blame) for traffic here since I posted my source as “WUWT” to u-tube so many times. I (they) have received a free education here. Many thanks Mr. Watts. I look fwd to the day when the articles are just interesting again instead of vitally important in stopping “the scientific elite” President Eisenhower warned us about. As for AlGore, is it okay Mr Gore if I have a fire in my fireplace to warm myself by today? And for God’s sake stop scaring the children you big creep!
Best powerpoint yet on why I, an admitted liberal (and last year a card carrying Democrat) denialist doesn’t believe in the CO2 god. The weather AND the climate is in the oceans.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/V1003/lectures/ENSO/ENSO.2100.part2.pdf
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
April 28, 2010 at 10:24 am
Re Icecap you said:
“Nah, presentation is too cold. Three columns of small text stacked two deep, plus sidebar, burr! ”
You’ve hit the nail on the head. Icecap is just too difficult to read. It has excellent content posted in a timely fashion, but it challenges my transition lenses. I used to go there daily, but have cut my visits to once-in-a-while. They could easily leap forward in the rankings with a reader friendly redesign!
ditto on Icecap. It is bookmarked but I can’t read it. Text too small for 50+ year old green eyes.
There was once a man who shorted a companies stock. Then flew around the world telling everybody who would listen to sell the companies stock because the sky was falling!
If Eschenbach’s hawk flies with the new format all the birds on my feeder happily join him as long as he promises not to eat them. Except for Fat Albert, of course.
I’m so glad a higher page-rank is an indicator of truth/reliability. As a member of the Flat Earth Society, this is very comforting news:
Alexa ranks:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/ – 453,402
http://theroundearthsociety.net/ – 20,503,375
Take that round earthers!!!
Re: Willis Eschenbach
Michael, the paper was published in the peer-reviewed journal that the AGW crowd loves to hate, Energy and Environment. With the irrepressible Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen as the Editor, it is a constant thorn in their sides.
w.
stan stendera says:
April 28, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Dang, that’s got to be a rare bird. I never heard of it, and Google can’t find it either … you have a reference somewhere?
w.
Here’s a rare bird for Willis…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCsiWL6gn0&feature=PlayList&p=4D789E8C3BC5DFE1&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=21
Jabba the Gore couldn’t argue facts with teens in Regina Saskatchewan when his tour ran into questions he was very uncomfortable addressing thereby dropping the Q&A altogether. Now he thinks to argue facts with Lindzen? He won’t enter a building with Moncton in chains in the basement yet he’d debate the issue with Lindzen? The panic stricken warmists have only ever had to reproduce replicable results to win the argument and I’m certain Jabba the Gore as their spokesperson gives them one and all nightmares. The man is a buffoon.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/al_gores_growing_carbon_footpr.html
Al Gore’s growing carbon footprint
Thomas Lifson
The environmental impact of Al Gore is growing faster than his waistline. The warmist con game has been very lucrative for the king of carbon credits. He and Tipper have just added to their collection of energy-gobbling homes with a nearly 9 million dollar 5 bedroom, 9 bath Italian-style villa in the celebrity-studded coastal enclave of Montecito, California, home to Oprah Winfry and many other celebrities. Al certainly likes living large. The home comes complete with 6 fireplaces. How are Al and Tip going to use them without generating carbon dioxide?
Way to go Al!