I think Naomi Oreskes is being charitable when she calls denialists "contrarians", but to each their own. Stranger Fruit has her response to the latest nonsense being spread by these liars.
They've tried this before, and it was swatted down rapidly, basically the only way they can show any significant disagreement with the consensus on global warming since 1990 is to lie and dissemble. This time appears no different.
Maybe that's why they're cranks. They just keep cranking out the same nonsense over, and over.
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A crank is defined as a man who cannot be turned.
- Nature, 8 Nov 1906
As a part of a longer post where I was, for the most part, serious albeit sarcastic, I asked one question that I considered a bit of a throwaway joke.
At Unscrewing the Inscrutable Brent Rasmussen brings us the 69th skeptics circle with a fun, old west feel.
I have to admit I'm somewhat surprised (even if Orac isn't).