Very sound analysis John and thanks for wasting an hour of your life! Archived Message
Posted by David Macilwain on July 14, 2019, 8:16 am, in reply to "Re: New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change - not really...."
Back ten years ago I spend weeks poring over a book called "heaven and Earth" by Ian Plimer - that I imagine you've heard of. The man is a complete charlatan and with a very poor understanding of real science or scientific method. My wife said "I don't know why you waste your time on it" - which might have been right, but if many of us hadn't done so, his credibility would have been even greater in the right wing fossil lobby and the tabloids. Even now the man gets to appear on talk shows and in articles in the Murdoch press - which I have no doubt will already have picked up this "paper" to republish in its own rag. What we found on this man, and another QLD geologist/scientist Bob Carter with whom I nearly got into a punch up following his presentation to local farmers and "climate's always changing" mob, was that they had connections to the US Heritage foundation and other notorious lobbyists for the energy industry. They in turn has selected "scientists" who were repeatedly quoted from and produced stuff like the Finnish paper. It was never properly peer reviewed either. So I think it is important to debunk this stuff and try to spread that debunking into the places it has traction; that's the real problem. Worth taking another look at the recent article by Suzie Dawson - that I didn't finish reading yet! - on background to "Climate gate".... memories of the way one Monbiot jumped on this alleged fraud. It was probably at that time we had a visit here from Lord Monty what's it.. who I also got ejected from
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- New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change - Tomski July 13, 2019, 3:24 pm
- Re: New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change - dereklane July 13, 2019, 8:34 pm
- Re: New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change - Mike July 13, 2019, 9:35 pm
- Re: New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change - not really.... - John Monro July 13, 2019, 10:35 pm
- ...and whilst some silly people publish silly scientific nonsense....... - John Monro July 13, 2019, 11:55 pm
- Finding no evidence for, vs. finding evidence against .. - Shyaku July 14, 2019, 5:19 am
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