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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
| − | Due largely to the efforts of very powerful entities with an interest in maintaining the status quo in energy-production, i.e. the oil industry, there has been an ongoing and well-funded media campaign to discredit the idea of [[global warming]] and its implications. This has led to both a large number of easily-refutable objections being widely circulated and to many of the same long-refuted arguments being brought up again and again. | + | Due largely to the efforts of very powerful entities with an interest in maintaining the status quo in energy-production, i.e. the [[oil industry]], there has been an ongoing and well-funded media [[global warming denial|campaign to discredit]] the idea of [[global warming]] and its implications. This has led to both a large number of easily-refutable objections being widely circulated and to many of the same long-refuted arguments being brought up again and again. |
The definitive collection of responses so far appears to be Coby Beck's "How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic", linked in the Reference section below. | The definitive collection of responses so far appears to be Coby Beck's "How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic", linked in the Reference section below. | ||
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* [http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic] ([http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-talk-to-global-warming-sceptic.html archive]) by Coby Beck: an excellent collection of skeptical arguments-and-responses | * [http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic] ([http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-talk-to-global-warming-sceptic.html archive]) by Coby Beck: an excellent collection of skeptical arguments-and-responses | ||
** [http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics mirror] with American spelling and somewhat better formatting. Please note that it is missing a few of the latest articles. | ** [http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics mirror] with American spelling and somewhat better formatting. Please note that it is missing a few of the latest articles. | ||
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Revision as of 23:51, 12 December 2009
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Overview
Due largely to the efforts of very powerful entities with an interest in maintaining the status quo in energy-production, i.e. the oil industry, there has been an ongoing and well-funded media campaign to discredit the idea of global warming and its implications. This has led to both a large number of easily-refutable objections being widely circulated and to many of the same long-refuted arguments being brought up again and again.
The definitive collection of responses so far appears to be Coby Beck's "How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic", linked in the Reference section below.
Links
Reference
- How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic (archive) by Coby Beck: an excellent collection of skeptical arguments-and-responses
- mirror with American spelling and somewhat better formatting. Please note that it is missing a few of the latest articles.
News
News
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] Drought and Global Climate Change: An Analysis of Statements by Roger Pielke Jr I replied that the indicated comments by Dr. Pielke, and similar ones attributed by Senator Sessions to Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama, were not representative of main- stream views on this topic in the climate-science community; and I promised to provide for the record a more complete response with relevant scientific references.