tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post3801984721761925133..comments2023-09-16T04:45:50.404-05:00Comments on Sleeping with The Devil: One of the Worst Cases of Global Warming Derangement Syndrome Ever SeenDervish Sandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-7906693485093600742013-04-20T12:47:32.110-05:002013-04-20T12:47:32.110-05:00Thank you John Cook for your response to my blog p...Thank you John Cook for your response to my blog post. Unfortunately I am not certain how I didn't get the explanation of the quote quite right. The stolen "climategate" email says, "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith to hide the decline".<br /><br />Doesn't this email suggest that Mike's trick does have something to do with "hide the decline", in that Phil Jones (the author of the email) completed the "trick" to "hide decline"?Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-10966492810813655592013-04-15T20:50:15.642-05:002013-04-15T20:50:15.642-05:00So basically John is saying when the facts conflic...So basically John is saying when the facts conflict with the closed minds of extremist right wingers they refuse to accept reality and just make things up ...... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-67628963850729117522013-04-15T17:22:36.168-05:002013-04-15T17:22:36.168-05:00Hi, this is John Cook from Skeptical Science - I w...Hi, this is John Cook from Skeptical Science - I wrote the article explaining the meaning behind "Mike's trick" and "hide the decline". Your explanation of that quote isn't quite right (if I didn't explain it clearly enough, I apologise). "Mike's trick" has nothing to do with "hide the decline". Mike's trick is merely the technique of plotting the instrumental temperature record (e.g., thermometer measurements) on the same graph as reconstructed past temperature (e.g., from tree rings, ice cores, etc). This is a way of putting modern global warming in the context of climate change over thousands of years. Simple as that.<br /><br />"Hide the decline" is the more complicated divergence problem you refer to. The divergence problem is an issue that has been well documented in the peer-reviewed literature since the 1990s. Climate deniers had no need to steal scientists' private emails to find out about it - it's all there in published research.<br /><br />On another note, I would recommend against questioning the intelligence and/or sanity of climate deniers. Research has shown that for higher education levels, Democrats are more accepting of climate science while Republicans are more likely to deny the science. In other words, education and scientific literacy aren't the main predictor of climate denial. Political ideology is. <br /><br />It's a universal human condition that when scientific evidence conflicts with our ideology or our cultural identity, our ideology biases how we process the evidence. In the case of climate change, the solutions to mitigate global warming require regulation of polluting industries. This is threatening to those who believe in unregulated free markets. But rather than come up with a market based solution to global warming, they are more likely to deny there is a problem in the first place. In other words, they reject the scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming.John Cookhttp://www.skepticalscience.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-76067111455709970582013-04-15T01:55:29.137-05:002013-04-15T01:55:29.137-05:00Lately, Will seems to have a tendency to cherry pi...Lately, Will seems to have a tendency to cherry pick statements (without references) that support minority positions and often misrepresents the point he is trying to make. In my opinion, his credibility has slipped significantly, and with it, the attention I pay to his blog.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.com