Climate Denial

So a bunch of Climate Change Deniers are taking NIWA to court over the accuracy of the data that has been used to assess climate change.

What?

This isn't a hoax. It's actually happening. This is not how you do science. If the Climate Science Coalition has real data and evidence. Let them produce it. They should gather their evidence. Come up with an interpretation. Make some climate models and publish a scientific paper. O wait. That's been done already.

You see, that way science works is that scientists gather data, do experiments, formulate theories and models that explain the data, then they they test them. A paper is then published and the rest of the scientific community takes a look and debates and argues and checks the data and reproduces the experiments. If the ideas and theories survive this process they then become part of our body of knowledge.
This thing we call science. It works. It works unbelievably well!

This has been done to death with global climate change. And the Scientific consensus is that the earth is warming and that we Humans are probably responsible.

What is happening here is that the climate deniers have put their ideology before the science. Instead of looking at the data and then forming a conclusion. They form their conclusion first, and then they look at the data and try to make it fit their preconceived notions. When science, objective reasoning and critical thinking play second to ideology, things will go astray.

These Deniers have been referred to as Climate Skeptics. No. They are not. A Skeptic looks at the evidence before he/she decides what the truth is. A Denier will hold a position in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. The Climate Science Coalition are Climate Change Deniers.