An Unforeseen Bonus

One artifact, entirely unplanned, of the style I chose for the How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic guide is that I seem to be showing up in a number of web searches that have a definite "sceptic" odor about them! I guess by stating the denialism before debunking it some people who are probably trying to confirm their misconceptions are ending up here. Maybe a few souls saved from the Dark Side? :-)

Some example search strings that show up in the referring URL's:

• iris hypothesis 2006 (#3 on Google)
• global warming a hoax (11th hit on MSN search)
• big hoax global warming (6th hit on Google)
• antarctic ice sheet growing (top of page two on Google)
• what's wrong with warm weather (1st hit on Google)
• global warming skeptic blog (hit 4, head 'em off at the pass!)
• "global warming" and "theory first" (3rd hit on ninemsn.com.au)
• quotes global warming sceptics (hit 4 on Google)
• warming "undersea volcanos" arctic 2006 (4 on Google)
• Urban heat island (page 7 on Google, someone was digging deep)
• mars melting global warming (hit 3 on Google) <-- good one to get!
• climate hoax (someone dug all the way to page 12 on this google, but we finally got 'em!)
• volcanic vs human emissions (4 on Google)
• why is the climate always changing? (2 on Google)
• global warming debunk science 2006 (top of page 2, Google)
• global warming vikings green greenland (3rd Google)
• amount of H2O in air (4th, Google)
• global warming bullshit (4 on MSN, this searcher may be too far gone...)
• satellite data cooling (2nd from the top on Google, good catch)
• headlines global cooling 1970 (hit one, google!)
• warming of mars and pluto (3 on Google, another useful catch)
• arguments against global warming (5th on AOL search, good to get the AOLers!)
• greenland name originated from warmer climate (3 on Google)
• evidence global warming is not occuring (1st hit on search.MSN Ha!)

I come up in a few regular searches:

• holocene climatic optimum (hit 7, google)
• worlds co2 emissions (2nd on page two, Google)
• climatic optimum (top of page two, Google)
• how much co2 do volcanos emit (1st hit in Google)
• vineland vaikings (6th on Google)
• co2 volcanoes (2nd google page) and co2 from volcanos (1st on MSN)
• climate chaos theory (page 10, Google)
• canadian receeding[sic] glaciers (12th hit on Dogpile - misspelling was fixed but is still in the comment that pointed out my mistake!)

And there are a few rather funny searches that brought folks here:

• things that start with x in Russia (!? - sounds like one of those long road trip games)
• a few things (2nd hit on Google, and 1st on MSN, isn't that what we're all searching for?)
• what's with the warm weather (1st hit on Google)
• warm, warmer, warmest (page 6 on google.co.za - what was this person looking for?)
• things that evaporation hides (1st hit, Google)
• http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.exxonsecrets.com (first hit on Yahoo - note: misspelled in some comments here)
• wild grapes north america map and wild grapes map (both hit 1 on MSN search)
• a few things about ecosystems (hit 5 on Google)
• blogger wagga (!??)
• 3 things about tomorrow's weather (4th, google)
• cost of things in the 50's (2 on google)
• ill climates (3 on google, what was that about?)
• what history does (3rd on google)
• dwarf dwarf revolution (no. 7 from google, and we are worried about terrorists!)
• sceptic odor (#1 hit on Google - one of those freudian typos I think...)

Anyway, reading this is probably like watching some one else's home videos, sorry! I still get a kick out of seeing how people find their way here.

Vanity post over.