This article convinces 46% of climate alarmists to become skeptical
David Siegel of medium.com ran the article, ‘What I Learned about Climate Change: The Science is not Settled‘ about his conversion from global warming alarmist to climate skeptic.
Siegel’s article has now been read 9,000 times and suggests 46{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of alarmists are now climate skeptics.
More specifically the survey at the bottom of the article asked readers: If you were a supporter of decarbonization before reading this essay, please state your new view on climate change … a large proportion of respondents indicated that: “I found it very convincing and will try to have conversations with others about this.” Brilliant right?
Meanwhile, Siegel has this follow-up written on WUWT and he summarized his climate odyssey on climatecurious.org. He also has a follow up article giving a three-step recipe on how “climate change” can be solved:
- We must focus on liberal media outlets to get them to learn how biased they are and why they are buying the wrong story. It’s a huge challenge because they associate decarbonization with doing good for the environment, and to them, anyone who says otherwise is a hardcore conservative bent on destroying the future. It’s hard for them to admit they are wrong. The media parrots what the PR people tell them to say. Ask hard questions. Do what you can to influence liberal media, blogs, journalists, and others. Simply having conversations, asking questions, and sending people my essay will help.
- I would like to target a small number of well-known people to convert and then they will spread the message naturally. The people on my list are influential liberals: Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jeff Skoll, Jon Stewart, Elan Musk, George Clooney, Mike Bloomberg, George Soros, Thomas Steyer, etc. My goal is to put together a very small, very exclusive event where a few of such people can spend a day with the people I list in my article and learn what’s really going on in climate science. Then people can use verifiable science and influence to help us put the environmental movement (and climate science) back on track. If you can help me reach them, I hope to make this event a reality.
- I believe we must get the message to our elected representatives to help them understand that this is not a political issue, this is a scientific issue, and it’s possible to cut through the lies and deceit and look at the evidence. It’s difficult, but possible. They need a guide. I call on independent and liberal think tanks to produce educational material that will help policy makers understand what’s really going on.
Is it naive or a fresh new approach? In any case, it is worthwhile to begin to refer to ourselves henceforth as antidecarbonista. In the modern secularized world is anti or stop it. If you’re not anti-anything then you’re a capitalist bastard. It is also true that difficult chemical words immediately evoke disinterest. And so it is useful to compel alarmists to explain precisely what they require by decarbonisation – something that should terrify anyone.
Good journalism serves as a guide and needs to provide insight into our own lives. But real journalism as a profession is dying. They are now too many men and women obsessed in self-promotion and marketing of some pet business rather than seeking to enrich the world with sharp insights. I, myself am a living example of a journalist seeking to promote unbiased, objective learning: I earn my bread with wintersportweerman.nl and donate tens of hours writing on climategate.nl.
David Siegel Thanks!
PS Snow looks possible in Paris and will do more to bring people to doubt global warming more than any article and it’s always exciting when Putin Buckler goes to Paris. See my article also donated to the folks in the street about it. And do not miss this article swirling about what is really going on in Syria and what game is being played by the greats in reality. Nothing is what it seems.
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Hajo Smit graduated in 1991 with Honors from Wageningen University majoring in Meteorology and Climate Modeling. In December 2009 he started his blog as a counterweight to the ubiquitous environmental propaganda.
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