Climate Liars Take New Tack: Peer-Reviewed Journals' Failure To Publish Our Work Is CENSORSHIP!!
Caleb Rossiter is the executive director of the CO2 Coalition, where longtime industry-paid denier Patrick Michaels is a senior fellow. They published an op-ed together in the Washington Examiner yesterday, and are very clearly trying to gin up interest in their denial by playing the censorship card. They’re eager to remind you that their opinions are dumb, opening the piece with a reminder that an article they wrote casting doubt on climate models, published by the Examiner a year ago, was fact-checked and labled as “highly misleading” by ClimateFeedback, then un-fact-checked by Facebook.
Well they’re back, with the same message (that we can’t trust climate models), and apparently the same promotion strategy: making people curious about what they have to say by pretending to be persecuted for holding such brave opinions.
So buried in all that nonsense are two actual paragraphs of real scientific content they’re using as the basis for this attack on climate models. The first relies on a forthcoming Ross McKitrick and John Christy study. The second relies on misrepresentation of a legitimate science.
For those that don’t know, these guys are not exactly top notch scientists. Canadian economist Ross McKitrick’s work is so subpar he has been described as “shameless bullshit” and either “dumb or dishonest,” and has proven incapable of properly reading charts. He also once, in a study co-authored with Pat Michaels, made the elementary mistake of confusing radians and degrees (in such a way that, just like all his other supposed mistakes, led to him claiming that he’d debunked some aspect of climate science).
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978393/-Deniers-Double-Down-on-Crying-Censorship-To-Trick-People-Into-Paying-Attention-to-their-Stupidity#comment_78627940
