Canada's Lowest Common Denominatrix™ mindlessly and obediently pushes the latest pig-ignorant, neo-con talking point:
The founder of The Weather Channel doesn't mince words.
Um ... for those of you who are interested, that would be this worthless, disreputable hack:
Right Wing Trumpets Global Warming Denial Of Discredited ‘TV Weatherman’
Yesterday, John Coleman, a founder of The Weather Channel, wrote an article for the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, a right-wing climate change skeptic site, claiming man-made global warming is just a “scam“:
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in allusion of rapid global warming.
As proof that the scientific consensus is a hoax, Coleman writes:
I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. … I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct.
The conservative blogosphere is pushing Coleman’s junk science today. Matt Drudge links to Newsbusters’ “marvelous” take on Coleman this morning. Red State, Qando, Sister Toldjah, and the Free Republic also join in by approvingly linking to Coleman’s piece.
The right wing should check Coleman’s credentials before touting his “scientific” work. As Coleman admits, his “expertise” is in weather — not climate change science. In fact, he “has been a TV weatherman since he was a freshman in college in 1953.”
Kate McMillan and "Small Dead Animals" -- diminishing the value of blog awards since God knows when.
P.S. In addition, DeSmogBlog is all over this like Patrick Ross on Werner Patels.
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I'm still struggling with "create in allusion." Not only a credential-less hack, but an illiterate one.
Careful, Doc ... some of those typoes may just be transcription errors from the original.
Ah. OK, fair enough. The transcription errors, if that's the case, certainly have wide currency.
Whoops. Not so fast. The errors are not in a transcript, but in "an insightful post":
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/
And on and on it goes. Whack down one denier and up pops another, whose courage of conviction rests quite decisively, not on an over-abundance of information and a wealth of knowledge, but on a lack of it.
It's frightening to realise that this is generally how the world works now. The less you know, the more you believe you're right. And yet, no one takes my views on Quantum mechanics seriously.
As Coleman admits, his “expertise” is in weather — not climate change science.
Yet he still feels that he's more knowledgable than the 3,700 scientists that produce and review the IPCC report:
Findings of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change Science
The Working Group I contribution is the first of three that comprise the full IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which includes the input of more than 1,200 authors and 2,500 scientific expert reviewers from more than 130 countries.
But I'm sure that Mr. Coleman's extensive "green screen" training has prepared him to rebut their findings.
Ti-Guy: "The less you know, the more you believe you're right."
It does seem to be true. Higher education tends to instill a degree of humility, at least in those who take full advantage of it.
KKKate's invariably self-assured tone seems to support this.
Doesn't she ever vet any of her sources? What, it's too much work? How long did it take to google up that info on this bozo -- 30 seconds? That has to be the epitome of laziness and sloth.
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