# Why don't climate change deniers publish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 14, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811 "2014-01-14T20:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 131
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> [@watchwolf49](#): > > As a staunch climate change denialist, and insisting that water vapor is the primary driver of average global temperatures,… …You’d be dead wrong, of course; water vapor is a feedback loop, not a driver. > [@](#): > > the actual average forcing is more like 3.2x10^-6. As I suspected, a very small amount indeed. This is absolute non-disproof that indeed baleen whales are stripping the oceans of photoplankton, reducing the ocean’s ability to sink carbon dioxide, thus we see a spike in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Perhaps I go to far in stating that they are doing this by intent, but it doesn’t matter, human’s only hope of survival is killing every last whale. > > Herman Melville was a prophet. …You lost me. You do realize that sarcasm registers very poorly over the internet, right? And that Poe’s Law is in full effect when it comes to climate deniers? > [@FXMastermind](#): > > OK now I like you. Why am I reminded of Dawkins here… Oh right - “that’d look good on your CV, not so great on mine”. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811)._