Talk:Global warming skepticism

Reversion to Separate Articles

Per the discussion in the merge discussion, I will work on the article and get it up to standard, since skepticism and denialism are not the same. Please feel free to jump in and help. GregJackP Boomer! 03:52, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Can you add or ues this? Peter Wood writing in Academic Questions has said scepticism over AGW has become respectable since the Climategate controversy.

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Resources

Will continue to add resources. Minor4th 14:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Linked to Global warming controversy

Global warming controversy is the appropriate redirect. It is inappropriate to equate skeptics to "deniers", a pejorative political term. It's well established that the historic origin of "climate change denial" is by explicit analogy to Holocaust denial. See (forex) Climate_change_denial#Meanings_of_the_term --Pete Tillman (talk) 01:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Climate change denial very explicitly discusses "climate change skepticism", right within the lead. Why would that not be the appropriate target, since it is where this term is expressly discussed?   — Jess· Δ♥ 19:47, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it does, but goes on to explain that they're not the same. And to call someone a climate change denier is definitely pejorative: see the para there on the history of the term, with Ellen Goodman making the explicit analogy to Holocaust denial. So that's really not an acceptable redirect. Global warming controversy is a less fraught choice, and is also a better and more neutral article (imo).

We used to have a Global warming skepticism page (ims), but it was merged into the controversy page some years back (assuming my recollection is accurate).

Hope you find this a helpful (and persuasive) argument. Best regards, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Wait a minute: because a journalist draws an analogy between this and a different form of denialism, you want us to ignore published scholarly sources? Looks like concern trolling. . . dave souza, talk 14:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Huh? I never said anything about calling anyone a climate change denier. The fact that climate change denial discusses "climate change skepticism" in detail, and goes on to explain they aren't the same, is precisely why we should be linking there instead of an unrelated page that never mentions climate change skepticism at all.   — Jess· Δ♥ 23:13, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

See Climate change denial#Terminology, and note in particular that Spencer R. Weart and the National Center for Science Education have adopted this as the most explanatory term, with no derogatory intent. . . dave souza, talk 14:32, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

RfC on this redirect, and others

I posted an RfC on this redirect at: Talk:Climate change denial#Redirects to this page. Please feel free to provide your input.   — Jess· Δ♥ 16:18, 10 October 2015 (UTC)