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Old 25-11-2009, 09:45 PM posted to aus.gardens
David Hare-Scott[_2_] David Hare-Scott[_2_] is offline
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Jonno wrote:
The Chicken Little Award, a dubious achievement award given by the
National Anxiety Center to people and organizations that they
consider to be engaged in deliberately false, media-driven scare
campaigns regarding environmental matters.

http://www.anxietycenter.com/climate/main.htm

This site is only for those who care about truth.


I wonder if that is true. They start out with a reference to the
mythological and mystical doom that awaits us in 2012. This gets people
thinking about myths and media driven rubbish. This has nothing to do with
climate change but it is a good debating trick. The trick is called guilt
by association. It goes: A is rubbish, assume B is like A, therefore B is
rubbish.

They then go on to bring out the old climate change is caused by the sun
canard. Specifically in this case it is the sunspot cycle. While it is
thought that solar forcing is a component of climate change it is not the
only factor. Something has caused a cycle of ice ages and warmer periods
over millions of years - the sun. However the claim that the current cycle
of warming is entirely due to the sun has been roundly debunked. The fact
that they quote this Marusek as gospel and fail to even mention there is a
good case against him, much less explain the case against his view, tells me
that the author is not even handed and looking for truth but pushing an
agenda.


If it is or not, I dont know eather, but keep searching. This is my
input.


Well I suggest that you keep looking. So far all you are finding are sites
(such as the above and junkscience.com) run by contrarians and lobbyists.
Why won't you read anything by actual climate scientists?

David