Ok, real quickly. I have noticed how realclimate.org has been put up as an example of truth while junkscience.com has been put up as a site that misrepresents the truth. Big problem though. realclimate.org does not footnote or show references for the underpinnings of its statements. On the other hand, junkscience.com has a considerable number of references as its underlying work. As far as how scientific papers are really written, junkscience.com is doing it right and realclimate.org is doing it wrong. It has to do with strength of evidence.
Because realclimate.org references or derives from very few if any underlying scientific papers in its statements, it is easy to argue against the points made by realclimate.org because they are not supported by presented evidence (ie: if no derived papers, need actual unfiltered source data and any filters applied and why).
Because junkscience.com heavily footnotes its pages with references to the original work, the only way to invalidate its statements is to do one of the two following: 1) must show that the derivation or conjecture derived from the underlying work is incorrect and how it is not supported by the underlying work OR 2) must prove that the underlying work being referenced is itself incorrect. If the underlying work also further references more underlying work.. that may also have to be proven to be invalidated. The key word is prove… using similar reference techniques to support the counter arguments.
It is like chess where the checkmating queen is supported by a rook and knight. To prove the queen can be taken, you have to also prove the rook and or knight are not there (or have already been taken).
In addition, any scientist would know that doing all your references from one site, a blog no less (realclimate.org) would get you laughed out of the scientific community.
I am waiting to see if anyone can counter the references that junkscience.com has used(with more recent scientific papers that directly contradict the papers that he used, and prove them false)…
