Climatology is certainly one of those things few people know anything about. It's just not something we're exposed to. And let's face it, for most of us, it's pretty damn boring. The result? Few people, whether they accept or deny it, really understand it.
What this also means is that deniers can play fox in the henhouse with a misinformed audience. While there's no time to explain the science behind climate change, here are a couple of videos that give examples of the fallacies behind this shotgun approach deniers take.
Remember Climategate? Those hacked emails that some deniers claimed exposed the rotten edifice that supported the data behind climate change? This is a perfect example of the aforementioned use of quote mining.
* Some of these skeptics aren't so much skeptics as they are climate change agnostics. And even within this subset, their agnosticism has more to do with the urgency or timing of projected warming trends. Nonetheless, deniers claim these groups as their own since it makes the size and quality of their numbers look much better.
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