Official sc(k)eptics on AGW
Feb 14, 2012
Bishop Hill in Climate: Sceptics, Climate: other

Donald Prothero has an article on AGW in the organ of the official sceptics movement, eSkeptic. The official sceptics are, I understand, an organisation that promotes reason and logical thought. That being the case I was surprised to see just how many logical fallacies were packed into the first few sentences:

On January 27, 2012, the Wall Street Journal ran an Opinion Editorial written by 16 people who deny the evidence of human-induced climate change. Most of the authors of the editorial were not climate scientists; one of two actual climate scientists of the group, Richard Lindzen, is a notorious global warming denier who also denies that smoking causes cancer. Predictably, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Journal refused to run a statement by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences, although a “Letter to the Editor” by 38 of the world’s leading climate scientists1 did manage to get published there.

It doesn't improve further on.

H/T to reader Randy for this (I was actually sent this a week or so ago, but have been overwhelmed by things to write about - so sorry to Randy for the delay).

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