Comments on: Tired of Arguing With Climate Change Skeptics? Describe the Company You Keep! http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Sat, 25 May 2013 11:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ethax http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-7755 Ethax Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:28:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=10940#comment-7755 Steve Pepalis: I think you’re missing the point, which is that there’s been an effort to scare people away from understanding the scientific arguments for global warming by labeling anyone who does as left-wing.

]]> By: Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 6th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-6523 Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 6th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:08:07 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=10940#comment-6523 [...] have found themselves friends at last – the CIA, the Joint Chiefs and CEO’s.  Wait, [...]

]]> By: Steve Pepalis http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-6494 Steve Pepalis Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:31:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=10940#comment-6494 Appeal to authority is not an argument, and without the Scientific Method, there is no Science. In simple terms, the Scientific Method consists of:
1. A documented, published (not necessarily in the politically-connected journals), testable hypothesis
2. A documented and published test, aka experiment, with fully documented and published supporting data and assumptions.
3. Third parties duplicate the published experiment and publish their results, data, etc.
4. Additional experiments are published with results, data, etc.
5. In many cases experiments (eventually) prove that the original hypothesis was invalid or just an approximation.
6. (In some cases, this process goes on long enough for us to label the hypothesis a Theory, or in rare cases, a Law)
7. See #5.

Steve Pepalis

ps: don’t get me started on climate models (GIGO)

]]> By: Caro Molkenthin http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-6487 Caro Molkenthin Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:11:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=10940#comment-6487 Hi Kevin Coyle,
my name is Carol and I’m with a german nature conservancy ngo called Naturefund e.V.
Our great vision is to buy 3,5 million squarekilometers of land to protect it for nature. Besides that we inform about our projekts and interesting themes concerning climate, nature and biodiversity. For our english Website, I’m always looking for interesting articles to publish and I would like to ask you If I might post this one on our page. look at http://www.naturefund.de to find the page.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you,
greetings from Germany,Wiesbaden
Caro Mokenthin

]]> By: Tdk http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-6462 Tdk Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:10:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=10940#comment-6462 Given that the standard argument is that all skeptics are bankrolled by big corporations, perhaps the second bullet point is not such a positive

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/tired-of-arguing-with-climate-change-skeptics-describe-the-company-you-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-6461 Anonymous Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:22:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=10940#comment-6461 Wow – this is the weakest argument I’ve heard yet for global warming. Let’s not debate the evidence and the science, let’s look at the reactions of other people to the evidence and the science. If I think the alarmists have overstated the sensitivity of climate to CO2 and have weak support for the belief that positive and not negative feedback will be the dominant factor, the fact that the chairman of the JCS had bought into it isn’t going to sway me.

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