Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Embarrassment for global warming denialists

When we talk about the importance of listening to credible science, we talk about things like reputable journals with peer review of their articles for a reason. The global warming denial industry has not bothered with such credentials, and this has mattered little to the press, which has used "evidence" from non peer-reviewed journals as counterpoint to the global warming argument more times than I can count. What better way to make the deniers and the lazy journalists look stoopid than to publish your own fake online journal (featuring non peer-reviewed articles by fake scientists) with an article claiming to prove that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, only to humiliate the people who promote it as the truth? And that is how the fake Japan-based "Journal of Geoclimatic Studies" and its headline article about how ocean bacteria cause global warming got featured on Rush Limbaugh. Says DeSmogBlog:

BlockquoteEven the most preliminary research by someone even slightly knowledgeable in climate science could figure out this hoax. Maybe Rush's "truth detector" was on the fritz.
See these links and laugh:
http://www.desmogblog.com/anatomy-of-a-dupe-the-john-locke-foundation
http://www.desmogblog.com/rush-limbaugh-falls-for-global-warming-hoax
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=45241

As they say at RealClimate,
BlockquoteIf science has one overriding principle, it is that you should adjust your thinking
in the light of new information and discoveries - the contrarians continued use of old, tired and discredited arguments demonstrates their divorce from the scientific process more clearly than any densely argued rebuttal.

1 comments:

BHUVAN CHAND JUYAL said...

Today global warming news is very danger news for earth life. Now this global warming issues takes big picture for this world. Now we are aware about this issue.