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lefthandpalmhttp://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2008/04/climate-change-sceptics-versus-deniers.html [lefthandpalm] Sooner or later in any debate (sic) on climate change, something odd happens. Rather than actually talking about science and facts and stuff that might actually win them the argument (there is a reason for this lack, but we'll come to that later), the anti-anthropogenic global warming climate change start bemoaning the fact they get called mean things like 'deniers' for expressing scepticism about the 'new religion' of 'St Al Gore.' They complain that being called 'deniers' rather than sceptics is demeaning, as it is suggestive of Holocaust deniers like David Irving and his repulsive ilk.

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Climate Progresshttp://climateprogress.org/2008/04/04/sorry-deniers-new-research-finds-climate-change-is-not-caused-by-cosmic-rays/ [Climate Progress] Sorry deniers, research finds (once again) that climate change is ...: It’s hard to trust climate change enthusiasts who scare school children with stories about starving polar bears and compare climate change skeptics with holocaust deniers.Why don’t climate change enthusiasts evey say, “I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it?” Well, they don’t defend your right to say it because when push comes to shove they don’t think you have any right to say it.

Michael Greenwellhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/about-a-year-on/ [Michael Greenwell] ABOUT A YEAR ON: For nearly 25 years, The Heartland Institute, which has received significant funding from Exxon, was described by The New York Times as “a Chicago group whose antiregulatory philosophy has long been embraced by, and financially supported by, various industries and conservative donors,” has been in the forefront of the movement of corporate-sponsored conservative think tanks, public policy institute and academic researchers first denying global warming existed, more recently palming off climate change as a natural phenomenon, and all the while demonizing those bringing global warming to the attention of the public.

Rebelhttp://rebello.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/no-sun-link-to-climate-change/ [Rebel] ”˜No Sun link’ to climate change: Here’s one for all you wild-eyed climate change skeptics and global warming deniers. Quote from the BBC story:. “Presenting their findings in the Institute of Physics journal, Environmental Research Letters, the UK team explain that ...

Energy Smarthttp://energysmart.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/we-washpost-reporting-balanced-vs-objective/ [Energy Smart] WE ”¦ WashPost Reporting Balanced vs Objective: As I’ve mentioned, the most credible climate skeptics do not deny human-generated greenhouse gas emissions change the climate. There are controversial issues about climate change, such as how much sea level rise will occur in the decades and centuries to come, and how intense storms will be during this period, but the idea that human emissions are linked to global warming is not one of them.

Big Sky Cairnhttp://www.bigskycairn.com/?p=91 [Big Sky Cairn] Global Warming: Who Will Pay Most?: Ironically, I have been called all of these things - and none of them in a Church. Here are the Truths that I hold to be self-evident:.

Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farmshttp://windfarms.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/climate-change-the-deniers/ [Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms] Climate change: The deniers: The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science ”” The Deniers Part III Polar scientists on thin ice ”” The Deniers Part IV The original denier: into the cold ”” The Deniers Part V The sun moves climate change ”” The Deniers Part VI .

Millard Fillmore's Bathtubhttp://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/plants-refuse-to-listen-to-climate-change-skeptics/ [Millard Fillmore's Bathtub] Plants refuse to listen to climate change skeptics: Here’s the problem for climate change deniers: How can they convince the birds, bees, grizzlies, and especially the trees and flowers, that they shouldn’t be acting as if the climate were changing? How can the climate change skeptics get the Canadian thistles to stop invading, the Japanese blossoming cherry trees in the Tidal Basin to delay their blossoms, the bluegrass of Kentucky to delay its greening, the prairies of Kansas to delay the wildflowers and grasses?

Open Parachutehttp://openparachute.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/the-real-climate-change-swindle/ [Open Parachute] The real climate change swindle?: Global Warming is happening but it can’t be totally attributed to the human race, the human race is just speeding it up. Like the video points out, there have been various times where it’s been colder or hotter than other times and that might just be what’s happening and we’re just speeding everything up, say, every 40 million years, if I have the correct number on the most recent ice age, the earth warms up and then freezes.

Gristmillhttp://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/28/164544/751 [Gristmill] The adaptation trap and the nonskeptical delayers (like Roger ...: However, adaptation in the context of climate change is more complex than described in the posting. As Joseph shows in the heart attack analogy, if you knew you were likely to have a heart attack in the future and you changed you lifestyle to avoid having one, that is mitigation.

Azhmbitaandrew's Webloghttp://azhmbitaandrew.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/science-debates-and-dollars/ [Azhmbitaandrew's Weblog] Science debates and dollars: The environmental scientists surveyed by Bray and von Storch show increasing agreement—a consensus, as it were—that human activity is the culprit in global warming. Bray and von Storch asked, “To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic causes?” On a Leikert scale ranging from 1 (strongest agreement) to 7 (strongest disagreement), the mean response of scientists in the United States dropped between 1996 to 2003 from a mean response slightly on the disagreement side of neutral (4.22) to a mean response slightly on the agreement side of neutral (3.86).

Further thoughtshttp://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/climate-debate-daily/ [Further thoughts] Climate Debate Daily: It is an effective tool of rhetoric because it has unmistakable echoes of “Holocaust denier” and thus labels people with a larger brush than their skeptical arguments even attempted to canvas.

Climate Progresshttp://climateprogress.org/2008/03/06/the-upside-of-disinformation-unintentional-humor/ [Climate Progress] The upside of disinformation ”” unintentional humor: Since we are going to be recycling so called “reactor waste”, there will ne little need for long term repositories for spent reactor fuel. Assembly line production of reactors, which then can be shipped to on ships and barges to the power production sites around the world, will enable reactors to be manufactured for a fraction of their present costs.”

Responsible Nanotechnology[Responsible Nanotechnology] Nano & More Grab Bag: On his Climate Progress blog, Joseph Romm urges everyone, especially the media, to stop referring to those who oppose action on climate change as either 'skeptics' or 'deniers'. He suggests the term 'delayer-1000' instead.

Trent's Tiradeshttp://scorpiontmaxvic.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8035EB7FCAB195D1!468.entry [Trent's Tirades] A great article.: The old/new Left was quick to seize upon the potential of climate change at the huge Brundtland follow-up at Rio in 1992. Rio was organized by Brundtland commissioner Maurice Strong, a long-time committed Canadian socialist who was the strategic mastermind of the new environmental Left.

News Dissector Blog[News Dissector Blog] MEDIA: Government Investigating NY Times In Leak, FCC Intrigue: “Ignored, and often even censored and demonized” is how the promotional materials for the Heartland Institute’s recent conference “The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,”

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