The deniersphere is predictably up in arms about the NOAA paper that lays rest to the myth that warming has stopped. As promised, Sou at HotWhopper already has a few articles looking at deniers' frantic responses to the study as they look for any way to cling to the myth.
First she has a postabout Fred Singer's column at the American Thinker, where he stoops so low as to claim that there's "no evidence whatsoever" for man-made warming during the 20th century. So not just run-of-the-mill denial of trends or record years, but full-fledged denial about the greenhouse effect.
Then there's a post looking at a Bob Tisdale piece on WUWT, where Tisdale says that climate scientists are adjusting temperatures like this to cool the past and warm the present. Except this paper, as noted yesterday, does exactly the opposite, warming the past and cooling the present, overall reducing the rate of warming over the entire period of observations.
Finally, Sou dives into the sick sad world of WUWT comments to highlight some choicer conspiracy theories, giving you a taste for the best (worst?) of denier thinking. Browsing the categories of conspiratorial thinking, Sou finds theories that claim scientists are willfully manipulating data for fame, fortune, and politics—which must be why you see so many scientists driving Ferraris and attending red carpet events.
And for a special bonus, see the email in which Watts accuses the NOAA study authors of prostituting themselves!
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