Almost everything the media tells you about skeptics is wrong: they’re engineers and hard scientists. They like physics too.

Almost everything the media tells you about skeptics is wrong: they’re engineers and hard scientists. They like physics too.

http://joannenova.com.au/2014/02/almost-everything-the-media-tells-you-about-skeptics-is-wrong-theyre-mostly-engineers-and-hard-scientists-they-like-physics-too/

In the mainstream media, skeptics are called Flat-Earthers, Deniers, and ideologues who deny basic physics. So it’s no surprise that they are exactly the opposite. A recent survey of 5,286 readers of leading skeptical blogs shows that the people driving the skeptical debate are predominantly engineers and hard scientists with backgrounds like maths, physics and chemistry. Which group in the population are least likely to deny basic physics?  Skeptics. I asked Mike Haseler for more details: around half of respondents had worked in engineering and a quarter in science around 80% had degrees of which about 40% were “post graduate” qualified. Respondents were asked which areas they had formal “post-school qualification”. A third said “physics/chemistry. One third said maths. Just under 40% said engineering. 40% said they had post school training in computer programming. Furthermore, the media “debate” is nothing like the real debate. Four out of five skeptics agree our emissions cause CO2 levels to rise, that Co2 causes warming, and that global temperatures have increased. In other words, the mainstream media journalists have somehow entirely missed both the nature of the skeptics and the nature of the debate. The so called “experts” (say like Stephan Lewandowsky, and John […]Rating: 9.8/10 (6 votes cast)

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NY Times attacks climate ‘skeptics’ for being greedy – Climate Depot’s Response Featured in Daily Caller

Marc Morano publisher Climate Depot Full Statement: 

Given that the global warming proponents have a massive funding advantage, it is quite odd for the New York Times to assert — without evidence — that skeptics are ‘hardened’ or motivated by funding. Is there anyone more ‘hardened’ than Michael Mann? Or James Hansen. Or John Holdren.
The man-made global warming machine is all about funding an ideological cause.  The media needs to deal with the new reality that has many former UN IPCC scientists and others are reversing their support of man-made climate claims. But since the NYT is a prime example of both a ‘hardened’ and financially interested promoter of AGW, we should expect nothing less than this kind of subpar climate journalism.
Key links: 
UN Scientists Who Have Turned on the UN IPCC & Man-Made Climate Fears — A Climate Depot Flashback Report – Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

UN IPCC Lead Author Hans Von Storch Blasts Climate Scientists: Not The ‘Keepers Of The Truth’ — Says They ‘Oversold’ The Science — Accuses colleagues of hype & ‘methodical failure’

 
http://testclimate.wpengine.com/2010/12/08/special-report-more-than-1000-international-scientists-dissent-over-manmade-global-warming-claims-challenge-un-ipcc-gore-2/
 
http://testclimate.wpengine.com/2012/05/09/german-meteorologist-reverses-belief-in-manmade-global-warming-now-calls-idea-that-co2-can-regulate-climate-sheer-absurdity-ten-years-ago-i-simply-parroted-what-the-ipcc-told-us/
 
http://testclimate.wpengine.com/2013/01/26/flashback-gaia-scientist-lovelock-reverses-himself-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change-so-was-gore-the-problem-is-we-dont-know-what-the-climate-is-doing-we-thought-we-knew-20-years-ago/
 
http://testclimate.wpengine.com/2010/10/25/high-priestess-of-global-warming-no-more-former-warmist-judith-curry-admits-to-being-duped-into-supporting-ipcc-if-the-ipcc-is-dogma-then-count-me-in-as-a-heretic/
 
http://testclimate.wpengine.com/2013/02/03/top-swedish-climate-scientist-dr-lennart-bengtsson-co2s-heating-effect-is-logarithmic-the-higher-the-concentration-is-the-smaller-the-effect-of-a-further-increase/

Stephen Schneider Went From Cooling Alarmist To Warming Alarmist In Just Four Years!

Schneider as a 1977 global cooling alarmist:

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1981 : global warming alarmist – Published: August 22, 1981: 

A team of Federal scientists says it has detected an overall warming trend in the earth’s atmosphere extending back to the year 1880. They regard this as evidence of the validity of the ”greenhouse” effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon dioxide cause steady temperature increases.

The seven atmospheric scientists predict a global warming of ”almost unprecedented magnitude” in the next century. It might even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice cover of West Antarctica, they say, eventually leading to a worldwide rise of 15 to 20 feet in the sea level. In that case, they say, it would ”flood 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida, 10 percent of New Jersey and many other lowlands throughout the world” within a century or less.

A leading participant in past carbon dioxide studies has been Dr. Stephen H. Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.