"No one has ever offered a plausible account of why thousands of scientists at hundreds of universities in dozens of countries would bother to engineer a climate hoax. Nor has anyone been able to explain why Mother Nature would keep playing along"— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
I would leave off the last clause: the first is sufficient to sink the deniers. It remains the most gaping hole in their story: how, or why, so many thousands of scientists, separated by race, creed, language, country, religion, would independently corroborate one another's stories. You don't need to be a scientist to spot the flaw in this, just a knowledge of Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation wins. Yes, we must admit it must remain possible that all those scientists got together, in secret league, in order to pull a global hoax on an unsuspecting world, for no other reason but that it would cost a lot of governments a lot of money, and it would be fun to watch them spend it; but it implies such gleeful mischief on the part of a body of men and women otherwise renowned for their sobriety and scruple, as to remain highly unlikely.
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Yea totally dude. I mean, it's not as if some of the most prominent climate researchers who argue that global warming is caused by man were caught colluding to keep papers that take a stance not favorable to the anthropogenic global warming thesis from getting published. It's not as if these climate researchers were caught manipulating data as to give more weight to their thesis, or were caught admitting that their spectacular models couldn't account for the current lack of warming. Anyone who notices this must be CRAZY.
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