There was also the rise of the "sound science movement" in the mid-2000s, largely bankrolled by big industrial firms funding "independent" think tanks and institutes to peddle spurious research.
Basically, they want to hold climate change to a standard that no other scientific phenomenon is held to - that until there is 100% likelihood that global warming exists and is human-caused, anything less than that is "insufficient evidence."
Every time a weather event occurs, you have reporters, John Q. Public, and "climate scientists" trotted out to pin that particular event on global warming.
These are the climate scientists people like Jfern and Harry cite to back up their views on climate change.
LOL, of course I know the difference between a local weather event and global climate change. Globally, January 2014 was the 4th warmest January on record despite some interesting weather in the eastern USA.
But it's also a mistake to say that a weather event and climate change are completely unrelated. It's really a can't prove or disprove situation.
I bet you that at least 9 of the 10 warmest years on record are in everyone on the forum's lifetime (2002 and later). And I personally remember hearing of global warming over a decade before any of the 10 warmest years on record.
Maybe some have been too alarmist, just like some have been deniers. Throw out the most extreme 3% on each end.
LOL, more like the sane deniers became "alarmists", like Richard Muller.
