RIGHT ON FOR ALEX STEFFEN!!!

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Why Your "Skeptical" Comment on Climate Change Got Deleted

Alex Steffen
June 16, 2008 3:49 PM

Climate "skepticism" is not a morally defensible position. The debate is over, and it's been over for quite some time, especially on this blog.

We will delete comments which deny the absolutely overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, just as we would delete comments which questioned the reality of the Holocaust or the equal mental capacities and worth of human beings of different ethnic groups. Such "debates" are merely the morally indefensible trying to cover itself in the cloth of intellectual tolerance.

So, if you're a climate skeptic, you may be well-intentioned and you're certainly welcome to your opinion, but we're not interested.

Thanks.

UPDATE: As promised, climate skeptic (and personal attack) comments deleted below (and they will continue to be deleted).

Most of those comments were the usual garbage, but a few seemed perhaps genuinely confused. For those folks, a little refresher on the facts:

On climate change, the scientific debate is long over. If you need a handy guide to understanding why the denialist arguments are bunk, go here.

The "skeptic" position is not an attempt at scientific inquiry, it's a PR scam, funded largely by coal and oil interests and run largely out of American right-wing think tanks.

The point of climate skepticism, politically, is not to engage in fruitful discussion. It is to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about the overwhelmingly clear science on climate change and the moral imperative to act quickly to stave off climate change's worst consequences. By repeatedly posting "skeptical" and confrontational comments about climate science whenever climate solutions are discussed, anti-environmentalists hope to hijack discussion and slow movement toward climate solutions. That's a bullying, dishonest tactic, and we're not putting up with it anymore.

Alex Steffen