Thursday, April 17, 2014

Heartland logic: if it hurts my financial interests, global warming must be false.

This morning I read Narahani's neat summation of the crazy-makers at Heartland Institute with their NON-IPCC Report created by their paid panel of a few scientific extreme outliers and non-climatologists, one and all unidirectional-science-skeptics who refuse to address the full scope of evidence out there.  

The NIPCC effort is an example of Science in a Vacuum where one can convince anyone of anything, so long as one can limit their audience's access to authoritative information.  

Beyond that Narahani says it quite well so with a tip of my hat to SkepticalScience.com I'll hand it over to her.  

As for the real IPCC report link: 

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Heartland logic: More people have heard of Fidel Castro than Michael Mann, therefore global warming is false. (via Skeptical Science)
Posted on 16 April 2014 by Guest Author 
This is a guest post from Narahani.   

Or is happening and is good for you, or has stopped happening, or is caused by CO2 but only a little, or is about to reverse due to lots of yet-to-be-discovered negative…


PS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgqv4yVyDw

The consequences of climate change (in our lifetimes)



Published on Apr 9, 2014
SOURCES:

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14:08 I backtracked this new "CAGW" label, and it seems to have started with author Michael Crichton in 2007, but was popularized in 2010 with an opinion piece in the Washington Post.

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