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Climate hoax killer app
Finally ... an iPhone app that decodes the labyrinth of climate hoaxes and skeptic psuedo-science.
Wed, Feb 17 2010 at 7:52 PM
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Image: Skeptical Science

John Cook, the Australian physicist who runs the popular Skeptical Science website, has offered the relatives of climate skeptics and hoaxers (I call them climate-baggers) a wonderful gift — an app that debunks and decodes the tangle of lies and misrepresented scientific widely used to confuse the public on climate change.
 
The app provides a detailed yet concise rebuttal to more than 90 arguments used by climate denialists backed up by correlated scientific data, including the greatest hits:
 
"There is no consensus"
"Models are unreliable"
"It hasn't warmed since 1998"
"CO2 lags temperature"
"It's freaking cold!"
"CO2 is not a pollutant"
"It's the sun"
 
And many, many more. The carbon-baggers are already fuming about this app, according to a story by The Guardian, denialist and part-time weatherman Piers Corbyn has this to say:
WARNING! There is an iPhone app trying to put down what we have to say under the heading of 'Skeptical Science'. We need as many of you as possible to promote that this iPhone app is yet another attempt to discredit 'Climate Realists'.
 
This may just be the best iPhone app ever!
 
 

 

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jason van orsdol Apr 08 2010 at 12:37 PM

Ah, but who put the answers in.....either way. I love CO2. VAN

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Phillep Harding Feb 18 2010 at 9:30 PM

Scientific methodology requires publishing what the researcher starts with, what he does with it, the results, and his conclusions. The AGW crowd only publish the last two. It's not science unless they publish all four, where people they hate can take a look at it. The science will defend it's self if it is done right. If they don't publish the proof, their claims are not supported, and are not science. Don't like it? Tough. That's the way science works.

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Will Feb 18 2010 at 11:15 AM

: let the machine think for you. No need to use your brain any more.

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alex Feb 18 2010 at 6:12 AM

why is the hadley center cherry picking the russian temperature data to bias towards urban areas at the expense of rural ones? The Moscow Institute of Economic Analysis alleges. There seems to be a widespread pattern of messing unscientifically withdata and not make that data freely available . How do I answer this one ?

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peter Feb 18 2010 at 5:01 AM

what arguement is there for phil jones recent acknowledgement of his sloppy science and need to hide or lose data when openess and good science is needed? He does seem to have been more honest in his recentviews

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Andrew30 Feb 17 2010 at 8:37 PM
The dawn of the Electric Monk Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency "Thanks to an Australian solar physicist by the name of John Cook, you can access those skeptics' arguments, and the science-based counter-arguments, on your iPhone." So is it a really well cross referenced Bible, where you can take any statement, find a quick quote about the statement and read it to the scientist and convert them to the wisdom of your Good Book? You have become Electric Monks expounding on their
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beliefs. Virtual Reality is inverted. The believers become the programmers Avatar. The religion is codified. Guttenberg would be proud. The groupthink is complete. Welcome to the machine. Pink Floyd, Whish You Were Here
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