{"id":6406,"date":"2010-08-31T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2010-08-31T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T08:00:22","slug":"in-this-corner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6406","title":{"rendered":"In This Corner\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate Skeptics v. Climate Deniers<\/a><\/p>\n

Excellent discussion of the difference between a global warming skeptic<\/em> and a denier<\/em>. I don’t think the author misses anything.<\/p>\n

Alas, a much larger number use the term “skeptic” as a re-labeling trick, while wallowing in the standard narratives of distraction and delay, exhibiting patterns described in Michael Shermer’s Why People Believe Weird Things<\/em> and Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World<\/em>. Only now, as more recently related in Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science<\/em> and in Denialism<\/em>, by Michael Specter, the trend toward dismissal of science has gone into overdrive, propelled by forces that are intensely political.<\/p>\n

So here is the problem: What discrete characteristics distinguish a rational, pro-science “climate skeptic” who has honest questions about the AGW consensus from members of a Denialist Movement that portrays all members of a scientific community as either fools or conspirators?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if you want to know a few of the shadowy ones behind the deniers, there’s a story in the New Yorker: Covert Operations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate Skeptics v. Climate Deniers Excellent discussion of the difference between a global warming skeptic and a denier. I don’t think the author misses anything. Alas, a much larger number use the term “skeptic” as a re-labeling trick, while wallowing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}