CLIMATE DEBATE DAILY, ONCE THE ARTS & LETTERS DAILY'S FORUM FOR COMPARING THE MORE COGENT POLEMICS OF THE CLIMATE WARS, HAS CEASED PUBLICATION
UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF NEW ZEALAND ACADEMIC AND CRITIC DENNIS DUTTON, .ALD BECAME PART OF THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
IT BEGAN AS A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON OF THE LATEST CLIMATE PAPERS, AND THE RESPONSES THEY DREW IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, BUT AFTER HIS DEATH, CLIMATE DEBATE DAILY CONTRACTED, FROM A WIDE-RANGING REVIEW, DRAWING ON SCORES OF SOURCES , LEFT AND RIGHT, TO LITTLE MORE THAN AN ECHO CHAMBER FOR HANDOUTS BY MARK MORANO, JOE BAST AND AN ASSORTMENT OF CLIMATE CRANKS SO PREDICTABLE AND REPETITIOUS THAT ONE DOUBTS DUTTON WOULD MOURN ITS DISSAPPEARANCE.
AS CAN BE SEEN BELOW, ITS EX-EDITORS CERTAINLY DON'T:
IT BEGAN AS A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON OF THE LATEST CLIMATE PAPERS, AND THE RESPONSES THEY DREW IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, BUT AFTER HIS DEATH, CLIMATE DEBATE DAILY CONTRACTED, FROM A WIDE-RANGING REVIEW, DRAWING ON SCORES OF SOURCES , LEFT AND RIGHT, TO LITTLE MORE THAN AN ECHO CHAMBER FOR HANDOUTS BY MARK MORANO, JOE BAST AND AN ASSORTMENT OF CLIMATE CRANKS SO PREDICTABLE AND REPETITIOUS THAT ONE DOUBTS DUTTON WOULD MOURN ITS DISSAPPEARANCE.
AS CAN BE SEEN BELOW, ITS EX-EDITORS CERTAINLY DON'T:
| CLIMATEDEBATEDAILY.COM | 24 December 2016 |
Dear readers, thanks very much for visiting Climate Debate Daily over the last nine years. We hope it has been interesting!
Sadly, the time has come to close the website down. Huge thanks to Peter Farrell, the website's funder since its inception. Peter is a climate change sceptic. The acting editors of the website over the years – Doug Campbell, Mick Whittle, and Wei Shao – are not climate change sceptics, but we have, throughout the life of the website, always tried to do our very best to find the strongest and most persuasive essays and articles supporting both sides of the debate.
The aim of Climate Debate Daily has always been to put the two sides next to each other and let readers decide for themselves which side is strongest.
Has the website been a success? It is hard to be sure, but our impression, based on reader feedback, is that it hasn't.
Few, if any, minds have been changed, in either direction.
Confirmation bias is a powerful force, and we think that many people – no matter what their beliefs – simply read what they agree with and ignore or dismiss what they don't. For the record, none of the three editors of the website have been in the least bit persuaded by the climate sceptics' arguments despite the many hundreds of hours we have spent reading them.
We note that after the website started its life on January 1, 2008, new global temperature records were set in 2010, 2014, 2015, and 2016, and that a new record for the Arctic sea ice area minimum was set in 2012 (and almost matched in 2016). These, however, are not the sorts of facts that will change minds!
Has the website been a success? It is hard to be sure, but our impression, based on reader feedback, is that it hasn't.
Few, if any, minds have been changed, in either direction.
Confirmation bias is a powerful force, and we think that many people – no matter what their beliefs – simply read what they agree with and ignore or dismiss what they don't. For the record, none of the three editors of the website have been in the least bit persuaded by the climate sceptics' arguments despite the many hundreds of hours we have spent reading them.
We note that after the website started its life on January 1, 2008, new global temperature records were set in 2010, 2014, 2015, and 2016, and that a new record for the Arctic sea ice area minimum was set in 2012 (and almost matched in 2016). These, however, are not the sorts of facts that will change minds!
