Why climate deniers are winning: The twisted psychology that overwhelms scientific consensus

Salon ^ | April 19, 2014 | Paul Rosenberg

[sergeantdave]

“Why climate deniers are winning...”

Of course. The latest poll shows that only 1.5% of Americans think that global warming is a major problem.

Meanwhile, Paul Rosenberg is a stupid 50 IQ ape and doesn’t know it. Watch the beginning of “2001 A Space Odyssey,” Paul, your hairy, banana-eating daddy is prominently featured.

[be-baw]

This article is propaganda at its worth. Sometimes I think you go our of your way to find articles particularly annoying.

[RightGeek]

[jpsb]

[SunkenCiv]

> Paul Rosenberg is a California-based ... columnist for Al Jazeera English.

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[InterceptPoint]

Unprecedented in science.
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Not quite. You forgot the HIV=AIDs scam.

[Future Snake Eater]

The twisted psychology that overwhelms scientific consensus

Is it the twisted fact that science is not "consensus"?

"Aliens Cause Global Warming" by Michael Crichton

[morphing libertarian]

I like that global warming is now climate change. Is it our goal to keep temperatures at the present level. If there is cooling how do we stop that change? More coal?

[Williams]

Didn’t think that much cow manure could fit in one article.

[jpsb]

As I tell my friends here in Texas, enjoy these last few years of warmth, serious cold is coming soon. El Nino might buy us a short reprieve. But is it important to remember, El Nino is how the Pacific Ocean gets rid of heat. This winter destroyed a lot of heat in North America/Serbia and if an El Nino happens the Earth will lose a lot more heat. Cold is coming, for sure. And oh by the way Antarctic sea ice has been braking records for several years now. Arctic Sea Ice is close to being back to it’s 1980-2000 mean. In total sea ice is way up. Polar bears are happy, Canadians/Serbians not so much.

[Jim Noble]

If there’s consensus, it’s not science.

[dfwgator]

I could live without 100+ degree days here in DFW.

[jpsb]

Serbia = Siberia (North Central Asia)

[jpsb]

Well just wait :)

[GOPJ]

“The reason ‘consensus’ has not appeared to work in society at large to date isn’t because it’s ineffective — it’s because there is a well-funded countermovement out there that takes every opportunity to mislead the public into thinking that there isn’t a consensus,” Lewandowsky told me, in response to this argument.

I've got news for Paul Rosenberg - our next project is to deny Newton's Universal Law of Gravity... Yep, it's just a question of PR - - and how many 'votes' we can get for our side... That's how it's done, right? We vote... and get big funding...

[gusopol3]

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.-W.C. Fields

[outofsalt]

I think they mean to say you are a homophobic, racist waging war on womyn.

[Liberty Wins]

As ever, follow the money.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This year, we should take a cue from Ming the Merciless, and refer to it as “Inferior Earthling Day”.

[okie01]

Paul Rosenberg is a California-based writer/activist, senior editor for Random Lengths News, and a columnist for Al Jazeera English.

Paul Rosenberg is also a skilled creator of liberal bureaucratic sludge, consisting solely of mumbo-jumbo.

His "overwhelming evidence" consists of "concepts", "ideations", "consensus"...but nary a fact.

It is remarkable that something so thin on actual content like this can actually get published in a reputable source. Leaving aside the question as to whether Salon is reputable...