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Welcome to Hacker News, where the conspiracy theories roam wild and free. There's something funny about GW deniers. They call themselves "skeptics". But, by de
by diego_moita 17y ago
Welcome to Hacker News, where the conspiracy theories roam wild and free.
There's something funny about GW deniers. They call themselves "skeptics". But, by definition, "skeptic" is someone that doesn't believe in something, not someone that strongly believes in its opposite. They're not "skeptics" in the sense of "not-yet-convinced" but rather deniers as in true-believer on the opposite.
- anamax 17y agoYup, skeptics like John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC. He now says "The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change" and "The story is the same for each one. The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article702... Meanwhile, Phil Jones has admitted that the hockey stick didn't happen and that the medieval warming period probably wasn't a local abberation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm However, Jones is simply wrong when he says "Solar influence was about flat over this period." (recent years).