Tamino has a new post up, How Fake Skeptics Fool Themselves, exposing the latest way in which deniers try to bend reality to their ideologically-driven agenda. Please go read it all. The bottom line is that someone named Jeff Condon has cooked up a bizarro world definition of global sea ice (and you really have to go read it to believe it), which shows (surprise!) no significant decline. Imagine that!
Of course, a certain other denier with a web site you’ve certainly heard of has jumped on this gift with both feet:
But it gets even better. Anthony Watts doesn’t just hint at “… isn’t it interesting?” He doesn’t even mention that it’s an artificial (and frankly, incorrect) definition of a quantity which isn’t the relevant metric for sea ice anyway. He just refers to it as “Global sea ice,” states that it “hasn’t varied all that much in 30 years,” and yes folks he actually believes it when he says, “Sea ice is a complex problem, and my personal view is that we simply don’t know enough about its behavior in the larger context to demonstrate a causal relationship with the recent global temperature increases.”
Boy oh boy, are these guys gonna be surprised in just a few more years when satellite photos of an ice-free (or nearly so) Arctic are all over the ‘net and newstands.
I am in constant battle with skeptics Lou, mostly as a poster over at the Huff– and you see me post elsewhere-they try every known tactic on me to no avail. Most see this as an attempt to ‘raise taxes’ impeded freedom & the capitalism- or Marxists world wide trying to bring us ‘one world Government’ among some other loonie conspiracy theories. At times I become tired with them- but its becoming easier to deal with them, at at times even amusing.
There’s a follow-up at Tamino’s place, worth your time. BYO(head vise): http://tamino.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/how-fake-skeptics-fool-themselves-part-2/