Comments on: Great April Fools joke by RealClimate http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2009/04/05/great-april-fools-joke-by-realclimate/ Dedicated to the balanced discussion of global warming Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:02:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: tim maguire http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2009/04/05/great-april-fools-joke-by-realclimate/comment-page-1/#comment-22171 tim maguire Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:14:49 +0000 http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2009/04/06/great-april-fools-joke-by-realclimate/#comment-22171 If I really wanted to be a killjoy, I'd point out that they unfairly redicule sceptics by putting together every opposing viewpoint and pretending that all of them are held to be true by all skeptics,* who are obviously stupid because they can't see the internal inconsistency of their claims. Also, as an attorney, I can't help but notice that the Real Climate guys have the burden of proof exactly backwards. I don't generally read them for the simple reason that they are untrustworthy. As you point out, they have picked a team. They have tied their careers and reputations to the reality of AGW, and they will be ruined if it turns out to be wrong. They don't just think AGW is right, they want and need it to be right. They may be well schooled in the sciences, but they are no more scientists than the Powerline guys. *as opposed to people who think only one or a few are true, people who think there is not one all-encompassing answer, and people who think that any of them might be true and would like to continue investigating to find out which ones are. If I really wanted to be a killjoy, I’d point out that they unfairly redicule sceptics by putting together every opposing viewpoint and pretending that all of them are held to be true by all skeptics,* who are obviously stupid because they can’t see the internal inconsistency of their claims. Also, as an attorney, I can’t help but notice that the Real Climate guys have the burden of proof exactly backwards.

I don’t generally read them for the simple reason that they are untrustworthy. As you point out, they have picked a team. They have tied their careers and reputations to the reality of AGW, and they will be ruined if it turns out to be wrong. They don’t just think AGW is right, they want and need it to be right. They may be well schooled in the sciences, but they are no more scientists than the Powerline guys.

*as opposed to people who think only one or a few are true, people who think there is not one all-encompassing answer, and people who think that any of them might be true and would like to continue investigating to find out which ones are.

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