On categorization, labeling and fairness

[Edited Dec. 1 to include retired engineer George Rebane's new blog ]
Mr. Russ Steele, retired engineer and proprietor of NC Media Watch, has emailed saying it seems unfair [to the others] to lump Martin Light’s Light on Nevada County and Dr. George Rebane’s Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation blog in with his, under the “global warming deniers” warning in the far right column of Nevada County Voices.

I disagree. Nevada County Voices aims to be fair to you readers, and part of that entails trying not to silently sit back and allow you to be misled, especially on an issue as critical as this one. Writers of the four blogs lumped in as “global warming deniers” are global warming deniers -e.g. see Martin’s Light on Nevada County here (“With all the hoopla about global warming…”), here (“… I figure Oscar Al must have several highly paid linguistic experts on his staff to stay a step ahead of the real scientists who are debunking his cry of ‘we are all doomed’.”), and here (“Al Gore’s movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ has moved global warming from scientific theory to dogma by means of the media, which now treats global warming deniers nearly the same as ‘holocaust deniers.’ The jury is still out on the scientific basis of climate change but according to the media anyone questioning it is being very ‘un-PC.’”) – and see George Rebane’s Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation (background) here (no soundbite; it would call for the Heimlich Maneuver) (and his reavowal of his views in Nov. 2007, here.)

And if anyone wants to posit that these bloggers’ views on global warming shouldn’t reflect on their other posts, may I recommend spending some time with Daniel Davies’ One Minute MBA – and with Skeptical Science.

Anna Haynes
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Addendum, from here:

…the neocons have a point: The personality of the global warming movement is fairly self-adoring, kind of sickening. Enthusiasm for the movement seems to be an identity thing, too.
But this is not important, or at least it shouldn’t be. Just because you don’t like people who wear biodegradable underwear doesn’t mean global warming is a hoax. …