Climate change skeptic decries ‘global warming nazis’ and their ‘jack-booted’ tactics

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/21/climate-change-skeptic-decries-global-warming-nazis-and-their-jack-booted-tactics/

Climate change skeptic decries ‘global warming nazis’ and their ‘jack-booted’ tactics
By Tom Boggioni
Friday, February 21, 2014 11:40 EST

Writing on his blog, global climate change skeptic Dr. Roy W. Spencer, decried the use of the term “global warming denier”, saying it is being used by “global warming nazis’ in an attempt to equate those who reject global weather change with Holocaust deniers.

Dr. Spencer, a former NASA climatologist who has testified before Congress on climate issues, says that it is “time to push back” against scientists and politicians who use the term ‘denier’.

“When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line. They are still doing it. They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem, with (2) the denial that the Nazi’s extermination of millions of Jews ever happened,” he wrote. “Too many of us for too long have ignored the repulsive, extremist nature of the comparison. It’s time to push back. I’m now going to start calling these people ‘global warming Nazis’ .”

Although there is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that anthropogenic global climate change is real, there remain small pockets of skeptics who explicitly deny global warming.

[Champion Jack]

1. Spencer? Never heard of him

I'll go with the scientists

[hootinholler]

2. Sig Hail! I'm a global warming nazi! n/t

[hatrack]

3. Klima, Klima uber alles!

nt

[kristopher]

4. Denying climate change isn't scepticism – it's 'motivated reasoning'

I love that this is making him nuts, but I don't think he had very far to go.

Denying climate change isn't scepticism – it's 'motivated reasoning'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112764753

July, 2011

In July 2011, a paper co-authored by Spencer was published in the journal Remote Sensing, "[which is] a fine [peer-reviewed] journal for geographers, but it does not deal with atmospheric and climate science," RealClimate found. [6]

His paper looked at a potential connection between clouds and global warming. The paper received significant media attention, and climate change skeptics claimed that it "blow[s] a gaping hole in global warming alarmism." [7]

Within three days of the publication of Spencer & Braswell's paper, two climate scientists (Kevin Trenberth & John Fasullo) repeated the analysis and showed that the IPCC models are in agreement with the observations, so refuting Spencer's claims.

In Andrew Dessler's view, "[This] paper is not really intended for other scientists, since they do not take Roy Spencer seriously anymore (he’s been wrong too many times). Rather, he’s writing his papers for Fox News, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, Congressional staffers, and the blogs. These are his audience and the people for whom this research is actually useful — in stopping policies to reduce GHG emissions — which is what Roy wants." [8]

In response tto the flawed peer review that allowed the publication of the paper, the Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing stepped down. He had this to say: (PDF)

"After having become aware of the situation, and studying the various pro and contra arguments, I agree with the critics of the paper. Therefore, I would like to take the responsibility for this editorial decision and, as a result, step down as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Remote Sensing.

With this step I would also like to personally protest against how the authors and like-minded climate sceptics have much exaggerated the paper’s conclusions in public statements. . ." [9]

There is lots more at DeSmogBlog. He is, of course, a right wing media regular.
http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer

[Prophet 451]

5. Why is "Nazis" always their go-to smear?

It's not like history has any lack of bad actors, some of whom were on the left (Stalin's thugs, for example).