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Old April 18th 10, 02:39 AM posted to alt.global-warming,sci.geo.meteorology,uk.politics.environment
Eric Gisin[_2_] Eric Gisin[_2_] is offline
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Default Newsflash: The fightback campaign against sceptics

The left is ****ed of that a grass-roots skeptic movement outnumbers the alarmist camp on the web.
The solution: organize a campain of alarmism in blog comments. Wonder when they'll invade usenet.

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/04/new...inst-sceptics/
http://www.campaigncc.org/whoweare

The advocates of man-made global warming are getting "sick of reading" all the comments by the
masses of skeptical public citizens.

They're desperate enough to try to rally the troops in blog comment land. They must be hurting.

Are you fed up with sceptics and pseudo-scientists dominating blogs and news articles with their
denialist propaganda? Well, fight back! We are trying to create an online army of online volunteers
to try and tip the balance back in the favour of scientific fact, not scientific fiction.

To sign up, . just enter your email on their site.
Lucky you, you'll get a message every day pointing you to climate change news articles where teams
of coordinated unskeptical people might congregate to repeat the same messages you've heard every
day for the last 20 years. Somehow AGW advocates hope that these same messages will still work
after the leading heroes were caught saying "pretty awful things" in emails. Somehow they feel sure
that people will be motivated to leap to help scientists who hide parts of graphs, lose records and
leave out caveats and uncertainties in the "megadocuments" that our tax dollars pay for.

There's any number of angles you might want to take but pointing out that the vast majority of
climate scientists are sure that man made climate change is happening is not a bad one.

ie. Step One - They suggest Argument from Authority.

Or how the fossil fuel companies are funding "think-tanks" whose job it is is to try and
undermine the science of climate change.

Step Two - Go for the ad hom. Smear! Smear! Smear!

Or ..(I could go on forever). You've probably got lots to say already (so much truth to tell.)
but you can also use the links on our Links page to back up your argument, or any of the further
information on our Sceptics page.

Step 3: After the illogical stuff, and the bullying, then maybe . consider some science.

..

BTW My Links page has some handy resources.

And My Index page will help you find topics I have written about.

(These are on the top right hand column of every post)

One last suggestion from us - you can also consider going onto the offensive and explain that the
real uncertainty about man-made climate change is not whether its happening but how fast its
happening and that in fact there is increasing evidence that the mainstream science of the IPCC is
actually underestimating the scale and imminence of the threat. See our Climate Emergency page and
the links at the bottom.

While they recommend being offensive, I recommend good manners.

It's also better to think for yourself, instead of cut and pasting baseless arguments and helping
to contribute to a banker-and-bureaucrat propaganda campaign.

Remember: everyone makes a difference. And if course you can unsubscribe at any time.

The Campaign against Climate Change is run by George Monbiot, Liberal democrat, Labour, and Green
party MP's, as well as a few journalists.

Michael Meacher MP (Labour, Oldham West and Royton)Minister of State for the Environment May
1997 - June 2003
Norman Baker MP (Liberal Democrats, Lewes)Lib-Dem Environment Spokesperson
Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party, South East)

H/t Barry Woods.