Talk:Global warming skepticism

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Per the discussion in the merge discussion, I will work on the article and get it up to standard, since skepticism and denialism are not the same. Please feel free to jump in and help. GregJackP Boomer! 03:52, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you add or ues this? Peter Wood writing in Academic Questions has said scepticism over AGW has become respectable since the Climategate controversy.

Ref name="Peter Woods">Woods, Peter (10 February 2010). Academic Questions. 23. Springer Science+Business Media,: 1. doi:DOI: 10.1007/s12129-009-9150-6 http://www.springerlink.com/content/j641v84113pm62m5/. The release onto the web by a hacker or whistleblower of emails and 15,000 lines of computer code from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has changed the debate over global warming. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)</ref>

Resources

Jay Richards (March 16, 2010). "When to Doubt a Scientific 'Consensus'". Journal of American Enterprise Institute. Retrieved 13 August 2010. (1) When different claims get bundled together, (2) When ad hominem attacks against dissenters predominate, (3) When scientists are pressured to toe the party line, (4) When publishing and peer review in the discipline is cliquish, (5) When dissenting opinions are excluded from the relevant peer-reviewed literature not because of weak evidence or bad arguments but as part of a strategy to marginalize dissent, (6) When the actual peer-reviewed literature is misrepresented, (7) When consensus is declared hurriedly or before it even exists, (8) When the subject matter seems, by its nature, to resist consensus, (9) When "scientists say" or "science says" is a common locution, (10) When it is being used to justify dramatic political or economic policies, (11) When the "consensus" is maintained by an army of water-carrying journalists who defend it with uncritical and partisan zeal, and seem intent on helping certain scientists with their messaging rather than reporting on the field as objectively as possible, (12) When we keep being told that there's a scientific consensus
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Richard S. Lindzen (Spring 1992). "Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus". Regulation. v.15, No. 2. Retrieved 13 August 2010. It is still of interest to ask what we would expect a doubling of carbon dioxide to do. A large number of calculations show that if this is all that happened, we might expect a warming of from .5 to 1.2 degrees centigrade. The general consensus is that such warming would present few, if any, problems. But even that prediction is subject to some uncertainty because of the complicated way the greenhouse effect operates.

Will continue to add resources. Minor4th 14:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Linked to Global warming controversy

Global warming controversy is the appropriate redirect. It is inappropriate to equate skeptics to "deniers", a pejorative political term. It's well established that the historic origin of "climate change denial" is by explicit analogy to Holocaust denial. See (forex) Climate_change_denial#Meanings_of_the_term --Pete Tillman (talk) 01:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Climate change denial very explicitly discusses "climate change skepticism", right within the lead. Why would that not be the appropriate target, since it is where this term is expressly discussed? — Jess· Δ ♥ 19:47, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does, but goes on to explain that they're not the same. And to call someone a climate change denier is definitely pejorative: see the para there on the history of the term, with Ellen Goodman making the explicit analogy to Holocaust denial. So that's really not an acceptable redirect. Global warming controversy is a less fraught choice, and is also a better and more neutral article (imo).

We used to have a Global warming skepticism page (ims), but it was merged into the controversy page some years back (assuming my recollection is accurate).

Hope you find this a helpful (and persuasive) argument. Best regards, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]