Hats off to Tim Lambert for some really excellent shredding of classic global warming denialism.

My favorite? When they change the axis of a graph to make effects disappear.

The article is not online, but most of it is available here.

They start off by taking a leaf from Michael Crichton's book -- they change the vertical scale on the graph of global temperatures by a factor of 20 to make the recent temperature increase look smaller. I used the same technique on the temperature data from the Vostok ice core and ice ages turn into tiny little bumps.

Why do those silly scientists think the climate was different during the last ice age? Using the Crichton/Davidson/Robson method the temperature is not noticeably different.

Wonderful stuff. Nice examples of false experts, selectivity, cherry-picking, and outright deception about statistics and absence of data.

Labels: global warming denialism