<quote>For every scientist who says the world is warming, you'll can find another who says it isn't.</quote>
This statement is flatly untrue. If you look at the papers published by so called deniers, you will quickly find that they come from a small group of people (including Christy and McKitrick, two cited in this article). Moreover, you will find that they simply repeat the same scientifically debunked arguments over and over again.
The purpose of these articles, and the others being astro-turfed all over HN and other news sites, is to create the illusion of debate where (scientifically at least) there is none.
That isn't to say that no one will ever come up with a viable alternative explanation for global warming. If and when they do, the climatology community will be perfectly happy to test it experimentally. But it hasn't happened yet, and meanwhile the world continues to grow warmer.
It's also worth noting that the political factions promoting climate change as an issue, and the policies and actions being proposed as solutions, are largely unrelated to the details of actual science.
It's a perfectly reasonable position to say "the science indicates global warming is likely, but the proposed solutions would be worse". Many people would disagree with that position, but it's not obviously absurd.
Yet in practice, people's opinions on climate change seem to correlate pretty strongly with having political views that do or do not like the proposed solutions. Funny, that.
This statement is flatly untrue. If you look at the papers published by so called deniers, you will quickly find that they come from a small group of people (including Christy and McKitrick, two cited in this article). Moreover, you will find that they simply repeat the same scientifically debunked arguments over and over again.
The purpose of these articles, and the others being astro-turfed all over HN and other news sites, is to create the illusion of debate where (scientifically at least) there is none.
That isn't to say that no one will ever come up with a viable alternative explanation for global warming. If and when they do, the climatology community will be perfectly happy to test it experimentally. But it hasn't happened yet, and meanwhile the world continues to grow warmer.