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Section = 109 BLP articles labelled "Climate Change Deniers" all at once. This article was placed in a "climate change deniers" category. After discussion on WP:BLPN and WP:CFD the category was deleted. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:51, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of what possible relevance are the insults of lawyer-journalist Jeffrey Kluger to Koonin's "Views on climate science?" The addition of that material seems to be nothing more than a gratuitous attack on a living person.

The paragraph begins by saying that "Jeffry[sic] Klugor[sic] in Time called Koonin's piece disingenuous if not dishonest." Then the paragraph accuses Koonin of "simply used the old debating trick of setting up a strawman to knock down by misconstruing what climate scientists mean when they say the climate debate is 'settled.'..."

Then some other editor apparently stepped in to defend Koonin, writing, "However, Klugor[sic] misquotes Koonin in an attempt to discredit his comments..."

I don't think any of that belongs in this article. Koonin's views on climatology are notable. But the fact that someone (whose name neither Wikipedia editor could spell) disagrees with those views and criticized him for them, and the fact that other people think that criticism is unfair, are not notable.

Note that Wikipedia's article on Kluger does not include criticism of him, such as the fact that the MRC's Paul Bremmer called Kluger's views on climate science "absurd."

Let's just delete the whole irrelevant paragraph about Kluger and his attack on Koonin. NCdave (talk) 14:19, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, or at the very least reduce it to a single line. MikeR613 (talk) 17:19, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

there is no crirtcism included in this article it is ONE SIDED