Climate change deniers will often say that climate scientists or oceanographers are exaggerating the amount of sea-level rise. Indeed, they will attempt to have you believe that tide gauges on…
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Climate change deniers like to impose impossible demands on the research of climate scientists. They home in on any uncertainties and they tend to exaggerate these uncertainties, at the same…
Your average man-in-the-street denier does not have any understanding of the language of science, let alone the methods of science. As a consequence, he does not have the wherewithal to…
One of the most common instances of fallacious logic1 used by deniers is stating that, as carbon dioxide comprises only four molecules out of every ten thousand (400 parts per…
In the psychology of human behaviour, denialism is a person’s choice to deny reality, as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of…
The huge number of climate change deniers in parliament1 has clearly demonstrated that a large number of our parliamentarians are not up to the task of representing us and making…
Often you will hear climate change deniers whine that the Earth hasn’t warmed since 1998. Just a quick look at the breaking of temperature records would seem to indicate this…
Often you will hear the really gullible climate-change deniers state that compared to human emissions of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, the amount coming out of volcanoes is vastly larger….
Enough has been written about Tony Abbott’s bizarre speech at the Global Warming Policy Foundation1, such that it needs little comment here. Its stupidity, inaccuracies and downright lies have been…
Often you will hear someone stridently stating that it is only the sun that warms the earth and the minuscule amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect,…
