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New Scientist's troll-b-gone

Posted by David Roberts at 6:41 PM on 17 May 2007

If our How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide doesn't whet your appetite for debunkery, head on over to New Scientist, which has a new series taking on "the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions." Some are familiar to devotees of our guide -- they predicted global cooling in the '70s! -- but there's plenty of new stuff with which to arm yourself should you, for reasons I fail to understand, feel the desire to continue to engage with the trolls.

Lol, Tom Harris

Starting off with point number one
Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter

Looks like I bagged me a super shady Canadian Oil lobbyist on my video on just this point :P
http://greyfalcon.net/carbon

Guess they don't like it when their own words get turned against them.

-David Ahlport

Yes, it's troll feeding time again

I'm puzzled by the site's requests not to feed the trolls that parasitize it,
alongside its regular provision of posts that ensure their propaganda will be the focus of attention.

The so-called "medaeval warm period" post seems a case in point.

So what is policy with regard to trolls ?

Regards,

Bill

Who is this jackass?

I found this video on the computer model myth.  Does anyone know who the jackass at the end is?  I've seen him before, but I can't place it.

Cheers, Gary Gifford
That'd be John Christy

That'd be John Christy

The guy who "accidentally" fubared the math in his satellite data to show that the atmosphere is cooling. (He got his day/night cycle backwards)

Apologized for it.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/11/mor ...

Helped write a report on the new findings
http://greyfalcon.net/trends.png
http://greyfalcon.net/trends2.png

And then went onto a Documentrary to say:
"What we've found consistantly, is that in a great part of the planet, that the bulk of the atmosphere is not warming as much as we see at the surface region."

More or less, lying through his teeth, on tape.

Christy is also well associated with a variety of Exxon lobbying organizations.
http://greyfalcon.net/swindle.png

-David Ahlport

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