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Thanks for the Traffic, Morano

Global warming skeptics challenge mainstream science, yet the Internet fuels claims by climate skeptics. Uncover the truth behind the debate.

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So...my last post, "The Deniers' Last Stand," has had quite a lot of incoming traffic from ClimateDepot. I guess Mark Morano over there somehow thinks I help him make his point--which, presumably, is that journalists are biased against global warming skeptics, who are really just on a quest to uncover the truth and ask the hard questions. Yet if Morano sees me as Exhibit A of his argument, I see him the same way in making one of mine--namely, that the Internet is just as hospitable a place for people who attack mainstream science as for those who defend it, and thus no salvation for science at a time when it is vanishing from the mainstream media. The army of climate skeptics descending here via Morano's link, posting comments making claims that have been soundly refuted a gazillion times, amply underscore that fact. Morano's followers can post as may comments ...

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