Kip has an interesting posting about King Tides, just before the Open Thread. He points out that “todays media” doesn´t do any fact checking. I asked him to speculate about what percentage of Todays media that would fact check, and discover something that questioned CAGW theology, would speak up or just simply forget about it and go on, peer pressure being what it is.
My experience: as a Geologist who uses Sequence Stratigraphy, as I comment to CAGW true believers that the semi-cyclic rising and lowering of sea level are the only good marker for historic climate cycles (as long as there is a continental mass in a generally polar location), at least 99% either disavow or change the subject, and maybe 1% engage in discussion/argument. Here’s the telling comment, not one of the 99% ever got back to me with a comment like “the CAGW subject appears to be more complicated, or looks like I should research the subject more, or you appear to be right”. The question then becomes, what percentage of the 99% even research the subject, and what percent of the 99% that do research the subject and find the “complications” actually think about it or just simply go on to other less confrontational topics, like “if Trump is re-elected it will be the end of democracy”?
Kip points out the majority of the problem, no introspection, but it is exacerbated by runaway peer pressure/group-think.
