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Where Are All You Climate "Skeptics" Coming From?

Explore how Discover, a science magazine, navigates the clash between climate science and skepticism in its blog community.

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Discover is a science magazine. DiscoverBlogs is a science blogging site. And as far as I can see, pretty much everybody here accepts the well established scientific consensus on global warming, which is that it is real and human caused. Whenever I blog about the matter, though, there is always a cascade of denialist/skeptic comments, frequently of enough magnitude to overwhelm the pro-science commenters. That cascade has been particularly pronounced as I've blogged more and more about "ClimateGate," but it has been a smouldering fire for a long time. And as far as I can tell, although we have gotten some anti-climate science links, such as from Morano, they are not sufficient to explain the phenomenon. So here's my somewhat befuddled and honestly, generally curious question--and I really don't have an answer to it--do a lot of regular online readers of Discover doubt the science of global warming? Or, alternatively, ...

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