Tim Lambert over at Deltoid has a great illustration of how denialists play the telephone game.
It basically goes like this:
- NASA: "New study confirms greenhouse gases, not the sun, are causing the current climate change"
- Denialist 1: "NASA confirms that the sun is causing the current climate change"
- Denialist 2: "NASA confirms that the sun is causing the current climate change and Al Gore is fat"
And then we get to read the cut and paste in the comments here and elsewhere around the blogosphere. But do go read a few more details at Deltoid, it is why the label "skeptic" is just about the least appropriate thing possible for those who traffic this crap.
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First, get a list of over a dozen things you want to say. They don't have to be true, and many, even most, of them can be versions of each other. Then, when you are in the debate, do this:
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I'm afraid I must reluctantly take fellow SB'er Mark Hoofnagle to task here, because he appears to have allowed himself to get a bit carried away when it comes to throwing around the label of "denialist."
Who are the global Warming Denialists?
A tougher question is, in a discipline as complex as climate science, how do you tell who the legitimate skeptics (those that ignore the reporting at the Independent for instance) are versus who are the denialists?