Posted on 07/10/2015 10:35:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
They are either championed as brave voices willing to speak out against the scientific majority or dismissed as cranks who lack the evidence to support their arguments.
Now deniers of global warming have been dealt a stinging blow by psychologists who found skeptics of man-made climate change tend to believe in conspiracy theories.
They say the conspiracist outlook taken by many climate change skeptics is harming the public debate over global warming.
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, an experimental psychologist at the University of Bristol who led the work, said: 'These results add to a growing body of research on the nature of internet discourse and the role of the blogosphere in climate denial.
They also warn that some extreme climate change deniers have also resorted to 'harassing' scientists and the editors of journals.
They say the conspiracy theories put forward by many blogs written by skeptics is failing to encourage reasonable debate about climate science among the public.
They write: 'There are indications that seeking the retraction of inconvenient papers has become a routine practice among individuals who are denying (climate) science.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Would it be a STINGING BLOW to Professor Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues if there was an ACTUAL CONSPIRACY on the part of the AGW proponents? HINT: There have been several discovered efforts by the proponents to hide facts, emails and suppress peer dissent over the past several years. Gee, I wonder if this Experimental Psychologist Professor factored this into his equation?
That is rich. Climate change is the best biggest conspiracy in world history. So big that is you acknowledge it is a conspiracy, you are called a conspiracy theorists yourself.
Denier! Denier! Denier! Die! Die! Die!
This whole article is BS. . . and is a reprise of his work he's published before and that's been debunked before. He is a charlatan and a fraud.
Among the Climate Change deniers are two men who have WALKED on the Moon. . .
I, for one, love it when Cuomo speaks---b/c I always
wondered what a boiled kale stem would sound like---
if it could talk.
LOL - good one Liz.
Judicial Watch discovered the FBI was working with the IRS to target conservative Americans. The DOJ was in on it too. What they were doing was against the law. You're right on your observation SpaceBar... the thugs are totalitarians... and we know where that path leads...
Judicial Watch discovered the FBI was working with the IRS to target conservative Americans. The DOJ was in on it too. What they were doing was against the law. You're right on your observation SpaceBar... the thugs are totalitarians... and we know where that path leads...
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