Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Climate Tribes

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"Deniers" versus "Warmists""Skeptics" versus "Alarmists"
They are mirror images of each other in many ways.
There is close communication among an "in-group" of similarly minded individuals with denigration of the character and intelligence of the "other side."  Each has its heroes and incarnations of evil among its opponents. Both see themselves as guarding the sanctity of science and protecting the interests of mankind.  In a bizarre sort of way, they need each other.
The climate "debate" is about a technical subject-- whether mankind's addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere is and will cause global warming-- and it has become a tribal conflict; a development that one can argue is not helpful for either the science or mankind's efforts to deal with a potential threat.
The battle among these groups is particularly intense in the blogosphere:

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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Climate Tribes