Coleman: Media Will Ignore Climategate Until They Hear ‘I Was Wrong’ (PJM Exclusive)
Realclimate is still spinning, and today attacked Lindzen’s WSJ op-ed. The theme was that “denialists” claim the ’science is settled’ as part of their attack. The underlying tone of it is that the claim is a way to make it appear relevant in the typical denier’s pointy head by framing everything as a conspiracy. Apparently deniers aren’t overly bright and have to have a bogeyman.
What I wrote (that won’t get posted) —
“Nice strawman you have here.
‘Settled science’ is a PR matter and the primary cheerleader is Al “the debate is over” Gore.
Nobody assumes SCIENTISTS say this; even the very notion is anti-science.
Lindzen is correct to point out that science is unsettled. He’s making the case against Gore and public perception and politics. And he’s correct to phrase it as he does given that climate change is felt to be a club politicians will wield to enforce possibly unecessary (and unwanted) change. If not for the political overtones of all of this, climate would merely be an academic endeavour and your blog traffic would be somewhere near zero. Lindzen is addressing the politics, and you misinterpreted.”
Sheesh. Is Gavin off his meds?
Irony Alert — realclimate invents and constructs a strawman to prove that deniers construct strawmen. Film at 11.
