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Why Nearly Every GOP Senate Candidate is a Climate Skeptic

Photo via RRStar All But One There’s a reason that it was so devastating when the Senate climate bill staggered to an untimely death a couple months ago — beyond that singular failure to enact emissions-reducing legislation, there was the sense that it was the last chance we’d have for action in a long while. Due to the conventional wisdom that the GOP will sweep into power, there would hypothetically be a whole lot of opponents to climate… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lord Monckton Claims Non-Scientists Shouldn’t Talk Climate Science?

Image credit: The Age From my post on why consensus matters in climate science to my follow up on why blogging is not science , it’s common for climate skeptic commenters to claim that any reference to the majority of expert scientific opinion on climate change is simply an “appeal to authority”…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lord Monckton Claims Non-Scientists Shouldn’t Talk Climate Science?

Consensus Matters II: Blogging is not Science

Image credit: InfoThought When I wrote a post last week asking why so many people hate environmentalists , RecycleNot brought up a climate skeptic/denialist talking point I hadn’t heard in a while—that science does not work by consensus, and that argument from authority is a logical fallacy. On the face of it, it’s an attractive argument for those who don’t believe in man-made climate change, and one we heard many times when TreeHugger was inundated with ‘skeptic’ commen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Consensus Matters II: Blogging is not Science