We have discussed that persistent question here before: what word to use when talking about people who simply refuse to acknowledge in the slightest the rather solid case for the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
I was thinking it would be worth a very in depth and lengthy post. But I gratefully bow to Greenfyre's excellent essy on the subject which you can (and should IMO) read in full right here.
He makes all of the points I would have plus a good deal more.
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Thanks for that Coby :-)
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with the solid black line running right through the word "sceptic" :-)
It does that for me too since I switched to Firefox, IE gets it right on this one though. Not sure what to do about it, it is already smaller than I would like.
I will shake up the sidebar soon anyway, maybe it will fix itself...?
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That essay is a joke. One word should be enough - "wrong". That essay only has to be written because use of that word cannot be justified.
And the people listed here, are they all to be equated with those who beleive the moon-landings were fake (as Al Gore recently compared AGW deniers to these).
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&Conten…