What About the Contrarians? A Guide

What About the Contrarians? A Guide
 

What about the Contrarians? A Guide

Fallacious claims of  climate contrarians /deniers /faux-skeptics and attacks by the right-wing media against climate risk management are exposed below: 

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ESSAYS

The Contrarians? Full essay with references

The Contrarians? Short essay

2010 Climate B.S. of the Year Award

Climate Science vs. Merchants of Denial Poison, by Al Gore

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REBUTTALS Of CONTRARIANS

Christopher Monckton refuted by the scientist John Abraham

Quick rebuttals to contrarian claims

Clearing up the "Climate Debate"

Contrarians Attack Scientist with Fabricated Quote

Scientific expertise lacking among 'doubters' of climate change: Stanford Research

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INVESTIGATIONS CLEARING SCIENTISTS ("Climategate")

Muir Russell report ends Climategate inquiry - scientists are innocent 

Michael Mann innocent of all "Climategate" charges: Penn State investigation complete

Inquiry says no malpractice by scientists - There is no "Climategate" II  

Pachauri cleared of financial irregularities

Phil Jones Exonerated by House of Commons - There is no "climategate" 

Michael Mann cleared by Penn State inquiry on three counts

National Science Foundation vindicates Michael Mann

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 ARTICLES AND NEWS

 

National Post: "Bad Science Global Warming Deniers are a Liability"

MIT Climatologist Kerry Emanuel Castigates Climategate Attacks

Republicans and anti-science ignorance: Nature editorial

 

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Where can I get More Information on Contrarians?

There are many references and links to get reliable information on contrarians. A longer list is HERE.

The most complete resource is RealClimate's Wiki, which is “an index for debunking of various popular media occurrences of climate-related nonsense”.  HERE is the list of responses to common contrarian arguments at RealClimate. RealClimate is the go-to scientifically accurate website run by professional climatologists. 

A great summary of climate change denial on Wikipedia is HERE.

Other excellent sites debunking contrarians include Coby Beck’s How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic and Skeptical Science; these have organized lists of contrarian arguments and responses, and HERE is the Skeptical Science iphone app. More useful information refuting contrarian claims is at the UK Met Office, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Deltoid, deSmogBlog (which has a LIST of contrarians with background information), Grist, Prof. Stephen Schneider's website, NERC, EDF, Island of Doubt, Climate Science Watch, and Climate Progress.

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What's the Picture? An instructive contrarian fallacy

The notorious contrarian comparison in the misleading picture above with two graphs exhibits confusion manufactured by contrarians and provides an instructive example of contrarian fallacy. Contrarians use an apples-and-oranges comparison of the two graphs, which correspond to entirely different geographical regions, in a fraudulent argument that the current global warming over the last 30 years is not caused by humans..

Current global average temperatures are actually the hottest in 1,000 years and the current temperature trend is UP. Besides, there was no pronounced global "medieval warming period", contrary to the implication of the bottom graph. HERE are relevant data. A great video is HERE

Actually this contrarian argument, besides being wrong, is a red herring.

Attribution of the observed global warming trend over the last 30 years to human activity is done completely differently and has nothing to do with irrelevant old data, as explained HERE.

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