# Why don't climate change deniers publish?

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**Created:** [January 14, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-climate-change-deniers-publish/678811 "2014-01-14T20:28:19Z")\
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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> That sounds to me like “a feedback loop, not a driver.”

The problem is, when people make things up, like “Water vapor is a feedback and not a forcing”, there isn’t any evidence that such a statement exists, except where somebody made it up.

You won’t find it [in a textbook](https://www.google.com/#q=%22Water+vapor+is+a+feedback+and+not+a+forcing%22), or [any scientific paper](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Water+vapor+is+a+feedback+and+not+a+forcing%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C10&as_sdtp=), or even on a real climate science page.

Instead you get blogs, where people say all kinds of stupid things, but don’t back it up with science. Evidence. Note that the 9 hits are all blogs.

If you type any [real phrase](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22water+vapor+is+the+main+greenhouse+gas%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10) into Google scholar, or Google, you get real sources right away, not a few blogs. Like “Water vapor acts as a greenhouse gas”, which returns real science sources, like [www.upi.com](http://www.upi.com)  
carnegiescience.edu/news/water\_evaporated\_trees\_cools\_global\_climate‎  
[https://www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov/climate/‎](https://www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov/climate/%E2%80%8E)

Same for [Google scholar](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Water+vapor+acts+as+a+greenhouse+gas%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C10&as_sdtp=), so it’s easy to see it’s a real phrase, from science. Not bloggers.

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