Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Climate Change "Skeptics" Climax Too Early... Again

Yet another story of climate change "skeptics" getting excited about something that turns out to be nothing. Here is a summary of the latest story in the ongoing novel of climate-change-skeptic-sensationalism:
  1. Climate Change "skeptics" manage to get a paper (Spencer & Braswell [2011]) into a peer-reviewed journal.
  2. The media touts the paper as a major challenge to Climate Change, despite the fact it's one paper among many opposing papers.
  3. The paper then turns out to be highly flawed.
  4. Then the editor of said peer-reviewed journal resigns.
  5. Finally, another paper (Dessler 2011) is published in another peer reviewed journal debunking the "skeptic's" paper, as well as a few notable arguments from climate change "skeptics" in general.
  6. Update 9/8/11: "Skeptics" have responded by creating conspiracy theories as to why Dessler's paper was published so fast. Could it be that the Spencer's paper merely contained popular climate myths that climate scientists have already debunked (see #5)? No, it is much easier for climate "skeptics" to resort to their favorite over-used conspiracy meme. Once again the old conspiracy adage hold true: "Any evidence against a conspiracy is evidence for a conspiracy!" 
  7. Update 9/22/11: The journal in question, Remote Sensing, has published a commentary on Spencer's paper, citing a few criticisms also noted by Dessler, including the fact that the model used by Spencer was too simple.



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I'll update this page as the story continues.

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