David's comment made me think of what it is where I live in the Northeast
that has people taking climate change seriously.
If you can show how it affects a persona' pocket-book Americans will pay
attention..
Here in Vermont it's not the heatwaves we've had and odd dry spells that
have people thin
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The biggest problem with the deniers is that we waste much energy and
resources trying to argue with them.
Maybe this is simply the wrong strategy.
Whenever someone starts spouting off nonsense, blow them off.
ridicule it for what it is, nonsense. Ignore the false logic, or
again blow it off.
Re
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Malcolmyou make really interesting points. I wish, as you say, that at the end
the educated and intelligent will prevail.
Unfortunately, history gives us many examples of liars, idiots and morons in
charge of making decisions for the rest of us.
In a perverse twist of Darwin's natural selection,
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Paul,
Please read some credible writings on warming before throwing out
"incredible" claims about things you have no evidence for.
As a start, I suggest reading up on recent "lack of warming here:
http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2012/06/the-danger-of-looking-for-patterns-in-short-time-series
Paul,
Perhaps we are reading different literature. I have seen little to no
evidence anywhere indicating that the warming trend is leveling off except
by those who cherry-pick what data they would prefer to use to suit their
end arguments.
This conversation thread began with some questions about
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When I first saw the title of this posting, I was immediately drawn to the word
'confronting'... and not in a positive way. I do not believe that it is
necessary to 'confront' deniers. Confrontation breeds a defensive attitude,
and being forced into a corner on a issue does not lead to rationa
Paul:
Have a look at all of the indices by year and by decade, 1900-2012.
GIDTEMP, NOAA, HADCRUT3v, HADCRUT4, BEST, NOAA, RSS, UAH.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php
or
http://www.woodfortrees.org/
All indices show increases with wiggles corresponding to El Nino, La Nina
cycles.
Ocean h
John - you and I are each thinking of different 'consumers' of the data - in
your case managers, etc. who want specific spatial and/or temporal information;
in my case undergrads or other members of the voting public who (hopefully)
will cast their opinions at the ballot box. For my consumers, t
Paul,
The reason that global mean temperature appears flat since 1998 is that these
data have been cherry-picked specifically to deny climate change. 1998 was an
extraordinarily anomalous year and is a favorite arbitrary baseline for climate
deniers. Go back even to 1997 and the temperature l
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I remember that back in the day there were people who denied El Nino/La
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changing when a trader called me because he was interested in the relation
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This is for people who want to learn something other than the pundits
spouting off.
http://climate.nasa.gov/
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Ruhl, Nathan wrote:
> When I first saw the title of this posting, I was immediately drawn to the
> word 'confronting'... and not in a positive way. I do n
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When confronted with one of these self-appointed 'experts' on the street, I've
learned not to engage with them any more than I would a JW or other religious
proseletyzer, in that they have filters in their ears and an agenda in mind.
If I'm in a rush or not up to being patient with this sort, I
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The introductory statement of the quoted *Science Daily* item (these
typically are institutional press releases reproduced verbatim) leads with
unexceptional confused hyperbole but ends on a truly alarming claim:
"...until now, scientists had little reason to believe that native plants
could mount
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I did not say to ignore them, I said not to argue with their nonsense.
there is a gulf between those two different approaches.
malcolm
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Corbin, Jeffrey D. wrote:
> John - you and I are each thinking of different 'consumers' of the data - in
> your case managers, e
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Malcolm and all the rest,
I agree with Malcolm on this point. I have been engaged in evolution
education in the classroom and through public lectures for some years
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society has never been trusting of scientists.
However, the same could be said of business with identical survey mechanisms.
So what.
This isn't about a bunch of hocus pocus and its not about baseless opinions.
ITs about the facts that exist.
Period.
As for track records of academics, virtually a
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