Everyone has a favorite decade, and for Climate deniers, that decade has got to be, the 70s.
Yes, the decade of disco, kung fu, and watergate

Because in the 70's, Deniers will tell you, All climate scientists believed an ice age was coming. Those crazy climate scientists! Why can't they make up their minds?

But is that really true? Maybe a little historical perspective is in order.

In 1921, Rorschach wrote the book Psychodiagnostik, in which he set out his theory that you could explore somebody’s personality by studying their interpretations of an ambiguous set of ink-blots on a page. Had Rorschach been alive today, he wouldn’t have needed ink-blots; he could have relied on the various documents leaked from the hacking attack on the East Anglian Climate Research Unit, a set of ambiguous documents that ultimately reveal more about the person reading them than they do about climate science itself.

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Back in June, Frank Swain and I argued for evidence-based policy ahead of the European Elections, and called for greater scrutiny of the various parties' policies on science. Inevitably for a pair of science bloggers pretending to be Guardian journalists, we were ignored. The election came and went, people elected a parade of fringe characters, and the result for science policy can be seen in the following statistic, researched and calculated over several very tedious evenings.

By my count, 23% of Britain's 72 MEPs are either explicit climate 'skeptics', or are members of 'skeptic' parties who remain silent on the subject (I use the term in quotes since climate 'skeptics' are generally about as 'skeptical' as 9/11 'truthers' are truth-oriented - googling for things that support your case and credulously accepting them as 'fact' isn't skepticism).

Peter Sinclairs's brilliant Youtube videos on climate change denialism are now syndicated on layscience.net. See the rest of his collection at http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610