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Fred Singer Promotes Fossil Fuels Through Myths And Misinformation
Fred Singer Promotes Fossil Fuels Through Myths And Misinformation
By Climate Guest Blogger on Jun 11, 2012 at 9:45 am
by Dana Nucitelli, via Skeptical Science
Climate contrarians have been busy lately. In the past few weeks we’ve seen two Gish Gallops from Australian geologists (one of which was extremely politically-charged), a gross distortion of reality from another geologist (this one an American), and now we have yet another politically-charged article from another climate contrarian – Fred Singer, who John Mashey documented was linked to the Climate Research ‘pal review’ scandal through his connections with the ‘pal review’ authors via various fossil fuel-funded political think tanks.
In this case, Singer has written a pro-Mitt Romney (the US Republican Party 2012 presidential nominee) editorial, essentially pleading with Romney to pursue an exclusively fossil fuel-based energy policy. As we will see here, Singer’s arguments are based on a number of energy-related myths, as well as climate-related conspiracies.
Singer Invokes Inhofe of all People
Although it was somewhat buried in his editorial, we should start off by highlighting Singer’s lone science-related statement, which invoked Senator James Inhofe of all people:
As we noted when discussing Ian Plimer’s Gish Gallop and John Mashey’s pal review research, conspiracy theories are one of the five characteristics of scientific denialism, and few people embody the climate conspiracy theory better than James Inhofe. Thus it’s puzzling why Singer would defer to Inhofe on his only science-related comment in this article.
Regardless, as with his climate contrarian colleagues, Singer is ...
By Climate Guest Blogger on Jun 11, 2012 at 9:45 am
by Dana Nucitelli, via Skeptical Science
Climate contrarians have been busy lately. In the past few weeks we’ve seen two Gish Gallops from Australian geologists (one of which was extremely politically-charged), a gross distortion of reality from another geologist (this one an American), and now we have yet another politically-charged article from another climate contrarian – Fred Singer, who John Mashey documented was linked to the Climate Research ‘pal review’ scandal through his connections with the ‘pal review’ authors via various fossil fuel-funded political think tanks.
In this case, Singer has written a pro-Mitt Romney (the US Republican Party 2012 presidential nominee) editorial, essentially pleading with Romney to pursue an exclusively fossil fuel-based energy policy. As we will see here, Singer’s arguments are based on a number of energy-related myths, as well as climate-related conspiracies.
Singer Invokes Inhofe of all People
Although it was somewhat buried in his editorial, we should start off by highlighting Singer’s lone science-related statement, which invoked Senator James Inhofe of all people:
“Romney should speak out on the “hoax” (to use Senator Inhofe’s term) of climate catastrophes from rising CO2 levels.”
As we noted when discussing Ian Plimer’s Gish Gallop and John Mashey’s pal review research, conspiracy theories are one of the five characteristics of scientific denialism, and few people embody the climate conspiracy theory better than James Inhofe. Thus it’s puzzling why Singer would defer to Inhofe on his only science-related comment in this article.
Regardless, as with his climate contrarian colleagues, Singer is ...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/11/496471/fred-singer-promotes-fossil-fuels-through-myths-and-misinformation/
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