by Jess Zimmerman. So you know how we kind of use “climate change deniers” and “climate change skeptics” interchangeably, because news stories get super boring if you don't mix it up? We're not wild about doing that, because skepticism is in fact a great scientific value that people should embrace, whereas denialism is just sticking your fingers in your ears and going “la la la.” And nothing has made that clearer than the skeptical scientists who, despite their Koch funding, found evidence of global warming — and the dogmatic deniers who refused to accept their results. Richard Muller and his team at Berkeley approached climate change with actual skepticism; they needed to examine the evidence in order to be convinced, but they were willing to examine it assiduously. They did, and their reexamination found that global warming is real. So far so good. But then there are the climate deniers, who aren't going to be swayed by anything so prosaic as fact. For instance: Denier Anthony Watts, who had pledged to accept the results of Muller's investigation no matter what they were, is now claiming that he can't get behind the findings because — really — they incorporate too much data .

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