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Today is Blog Action Day where bloggers are writing something about climate change.
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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Category: Global Warming
Posted on: October 16, 2009 2:42 AM, by Tim Lambert
Today is blog action day where bloggers are writing something about climate change. The post I was going to do isn't finished yet, but fortunately there is lots of interesting posts you can read.
I recommend Jim Prall on how to engage with those sceptical of taking action and Kate of ClimateSight on how to judge the credibility of information sources.
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Posted by: Paul UK | October 16, 2009 4:31 AM
Sock.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 2:25 PM
Tim:
Thanks for the Jim Prall link. The study he's responding to is fascinating reading.
Frank, it seems like it might be a good candidate for the MLP. (The Prall link, not the sock puppet.)
Posted by: Brian D | October 16, 2009 3:31 PM
Brian D: Done!
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 3:41 PM
Sock.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 3:46 PM
Sock.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 3:50 PM
Nice to see the denial sock puppets here write short(er) posts, as opposed to the epic missives of Girma.
Posted by: Former Skeptic | October 16, 2009 3:55 PM
Sock.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 3:57 PM
FrankIsARetard:
Keep up with your science-free insults, sock.
Feel free to justify your scurrilous behaviour with "The Warmists Do It Too!" I'm sure that'll fly.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 4:04 PM
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 4:07 PM
Amusing that the denialists now are so scared of not being listened to any more they're going to all the effort of writing infantile insults on anyone who DARES say that the capitalism they adore so much has problems.
And that they are so lacking in intelligence they make up names like "MarkIsAWanker" and so on.
Mind you, they've been so long ignoring any learning that may tell them AGW is real, they've forgotten how to use their noggin.
Posted by: Mark | October 16, 2009 4:11 PM
Sock.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 4:15 PM
Had to snigger:
(that is post #18)
Now lets go up a little:
(that was post #6).
Funny how the denialist preteen here is complaining about global cooling then complains about a scare he made up about global cooling.
I tell you, with friends like this, Plimer needs no enemies.
Posted by: Mark | October 16, 2009 4:16 PM
I think the modus operandi of our nameless global warming denialist goes like this:
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 4:20 PM
Sorry, nameless denialist, it's too late for you to portray yourself as a reasoned and open-minded individual.
If you'd started out by asking honest questions instead of dishing out vulgarities, you might've had a fighting chance. Too bad you squandered that chance right from the start.
Too late.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 4:24 PM
Nameless denialist:
Now that is projection. :)
Again, it's too late for you now to portray yourself as an even-handed, open-minded truth seeker. You had the chance to ask honest questions, and you squandered it.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 16, 2009 4:30 PM
Hey, I see the British Lord Himself, the guy who claims to be Maggie Thatcher's biological warfare consultant, is telling crowds of Tory Patriots that the US government is illegitimate, and they're lapping it up like true believers.
Where is Eric Hoffer, now that we need him so badly? http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Nature-Movements/dp/0060916125#reader
Posted by: ankhank
| October 16, 2009 7:32 PM
I call poe on the 'Global warming=religion'.
Posted by: Alex | October 16, 2009 8:01 PM
Just one more thing - I find it extremely ironic that most denialists that shreak 'warming is a religion', are Libertarians; the most fanatical of all religious nuts.
Posted by: Alex | October 16, 2009 8:04 PM
Wow, so incessantly spamming blog threads with vulgarities = expressing a reasoned viewpoint just like Galileo.
Begone, foul troll.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 17, 2009 8:34 AM
Nameless denialist troll:
It's a bit late to suddenly decide -- once again -- to try to dress yourself up as a reasoned, open-minded truth seeker, isn't it?
Begone, foul troll.
Posted by: bi -- IJI | October 17, 2009 9:12 AM
What's ideal about flooding New York City, socky?
Is it you'd like to see all those Yankees drowned and the stock market of the US destroyed?
Posted by: Mark | October 17, 2009 9:18 AM
The standard nutjobs are doing their thing over at the BBC, but one of the nutjobs comes up with quite a good explanation of how broken they are:
Now, ignoring for a moment the first paragraph, just look at the conclusion they came to.
The appropriate attitude to such a lack of knowing is NOT skepticism. It's to FIND IT OUT.
If you don't know it's raining out, the response to that is not be skeptical of rain happening, but to open a bloody window and find out!
Posted by: Mark | October 17, 2009 10:31 AM
Thanks for the hat tip, Tim - you caused a nice little spike in my hits! :)
Posted by: Kate | October 18, 2009 2:32 PM
Re #24. And well deserved Kate. A well written piece and some useful guidance for sorting the wheat from the chaff.
The only problem is that the denialists love their chaff (and preferably GM chaff).
Posted by: Jimmy Nightingale | October 20, 2009 9:35 PM