Are deniers laughable or just pathetic with their latest scheme to make all climate science look fraudulent?

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Yesterday there were attacks on physicists and every day they attack mainstream climate science. Will they end up doing damage to science as a whole in their attempt to continue the unsustainable burning of fossil fuels.

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Why is a Russian newspaper suddenly a reliable source for climate science?

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These same people were the propaganda machine of the USSR, now suddenly it seems like certain people think it is a reliable source for information on climate science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda#The_post-Soviet_period

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What are the implications of recent climate controversies?

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Well from my reading around here, the believers need a bit of a boost and some soothing. They seem to be getting out of sorts.

Being the gentleman that I am, I present to you a more refreshing version of the state of the climate change issue. There, see, nothing is wrong with you, all is well.

You’re welcome.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2010/02/18/implications-of-recent-climate-science-controversies/

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how is it possible for climate models to be as reliable as the models used in other branches of science?

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In other branches of science, through observation and trial and error one can refine and reduce the uncertainties. In climate science it is acknowledged that the observations of our climate system are inadequate. Trenberth called it a "travesty".
He thinks it is a travesty that we lack proper observations, not that he thinks that the models are inadequate.

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