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Engaging With Climate Skeptics
In the wake of the CRU "climategate" leak, reader Geoffrey.landis sends along a New York Times blog profile of Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech. "Curry — unlike many climate scientists — does not simply dismiss the arguments of 'climate skeptics,' but attempts to engage them in dialogue. She can, as well, be rather pointed in criticizing her colleagues, as in a post on the skeptic site climateaudit where she argues for greater transparency for climate data and calculations (mirrored here). In this post she makes a point that tribalism in science is the main culprit here —- that when scientists 'circle the wagons' to defend against what they perceive to be unfair (and unscientific) attacks, the result can be damaging to the actual science being defended. Is it still possible to conduct a dialogue, or is there no possible common ground?"
The basement of the heritage foundation?
We have the best government that money can buy.
So obvious yet you apparently can't actually see it - the denialist industry has considerably more resources behind it than the academics and research scientists. A few piffly grant monies versus the vested interests of the current energy industry? Those avaricious scientists are clearly prepared to invent any kind of lie or distraction to maintain their current position of wealth and power eh?
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... I don't doubt that climate change can be human-affected but for fucks sake it's been decades now.
I don't doubt that _evolution_ but for fucks sake it's been decades now.
Wow, that argument works on a number of things.
My UID is prime. Hah!
A global conspiracy amongst scientists.... to what end?
Money? Nah, couldn't be!