Rogers
12-10-2007, 11:13 PM
Pity the fool: Limbaugh falls for Global Warming Denier hoax
Yes, “America’s Truth Detector” has such a good nose for fraud that we can expect that Brooklyn Bridge salesmen have had a good time with him.
http://energysmart.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/pity-the-fool-limbaugh-falls-for-global-warming-denier-hoax/
INTERVIEW: author of spoof paper speaks - November 09, 2007
Why did you decide to construct the fake website? Was it purely a joke or did you set out to make people taking your paper at face value look foolish?
Its purpose was to expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of many of the people who call themselves climate sceptics. While dismissive of the work of the great majority of climate scientists, they will believe almost anything if it lends support to their position. Their approach to climate science is the opposite of scepticism.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/11/interview_author_of_spoof_pape.html
Rush To Judgement: A Throwback To The Plasticine Era?
Shoddy targets invite cheap shots. This week, a non-existent article in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as blogosphere bait to lure pundits onto the scientific rocks.
It succeeded.
The pseudo-study,complete with bogus equations, suggested man-made CO2 does not cause global warming, and sure enough, within 48 hours Rush Limbaugh was repeating it to his 20 million followers as scientific gospel just as he has regurgitated the assertions of climatological boiler room operators before.
What makes this episode richly comic is less K Street gurus finding pure gibberish:
4δ161x Λ³Жญ5,6,1,8Φ-4 = {(ΣΨ²Њyt3-14๖P9) x 49}/2β x ⅜kxgt-§
"very convincing "and swallowing references to fossils from the "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine" eras, but that Limbaugh refused to disbelieve the wheeze even when bona fide scientists told him it was a joke.
Scientifically illiterate Limbaugh underlings have long promoted calling global warming a "hoax", but this time Limbaugh moved beyond shaping the ignorance of his listeners to ignoring the warnings of his own "expert climatologist here on staff." who issued this disclaimer--
http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/11/rush-to-judgeme.html
Rush Limbaugh on Global Warming
http://www.drury.edu/ess/Limbaugh.html
There may be none so blind as those who will not see.
'Tropics expand' as world warms
Climate change is causing the tropics to widen, with possible impacts on the global food supply, research suggests.
Scientists examined five different measures of the width of the tropical belt, and found it expanded by between 2 and 4.8 degrees latitude since 1979.
In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers report a computer modelling study that projects a doubling of the frequency of weather conditions right for the formation of severe thunderstorms.
Already, they write, extreme weather events are costing the US economy more than $2bn (£970m) each year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7126069.stm
Yes, “America’s Truth Detector” has such a good nose for fraud that we can expect that Brooklyn Bridge salesmen have had a good time with him.
http://energysmart.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/pity-the-fool-limbaugh-falls-for-global-warming-denier-hoax/
INTERVIEW: author of spoof paper speaks - November 09, 2007
Why did you decide to construct the fake website? Was it purely a joke or did you set out to make people taking your paper at face value look foolish?
Its purpose was to expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of many of the people who call themselves climate sceptics. While dismissive of the work of the great majority of climate scientists, they will believe almost anything if it lends support to their position. Their approach to climate science is the opposite of scepticism.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/11/interview_author_of_spoof_pape.html
Rush To Judgement: A Throwback To The Plasticine Era?
Shoddy targets invite cheap shots. This week, a non-existent article in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as blogosphere bait to lure pundits onto the scientific rocks.
It succeeded.
The pseudo-study,complete with bogus equations, suggested man-made CO2 does not cause global warming, and sure enough, within 48 hours Rush Limbaugh was repeating it to his 20 million followers as scientific gospel just as he has regurgitated the assertions of climatological boiler room operators before.
What makes this episode richly comic is less K Street gurus finding pure gibberish:
4δ161x Λ³Жญ5,6,1,8Φ-4 = {(ΣΨ²Њyt3-14๖P9) x 49}/2β x ⅜kxgt-§
"very convincing "and swallowing references to fossils from the "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine" eras, but that Limbaugh refused to disbelieve the wheeze even when bona fide scientists told him it was a joke.
Scientifically illiterate Limbaugh underlings have long promoted calling global warming a "hoax", but this time Limbaugh moved beyond shaping the ignorance of his listeners to ignoring the warnings of his own "expert climatologist here on staff." who issued this disclaimer--
http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/11/rush-to-judgeme.html
Rush Limbaugh on Global Warming
http://www.drury.edu/ess/Limbaugh.html
There may be none so blind as those who will not see.
'Tropics expand' as world warms
Climate change is causing the tropics to widen, with possible impacts on the global food supply, research suggests.
Scientists examined five different measures of the width of the tropical belt, and found it expanded by between 2 and 4.8 degrees latitude since 1979.
In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers report a computer modelling study that projects a doubling of the frequency of weather conditions right for the formation of severe thunderstorms.
Already, they write, extreme weather events are costing the US economy more than $2bn (£970m) each year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7126069.stm