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Thank you for proving us skeptics can be fooled..

Now when will the "global warming religion" admit they too are doing it for research money and just basically for controling others' freedom.

The alleged hoaxer should be reminded that Ron Bailey of Reason magazine is not a skeptic, as he reminded folks himself when writing about the hoax. I analyzed the number of skeptics fooled here, in case anyone cares.

What is truly interesting is the speed at which the 'skeptics' excavated the fallacious nature of the report. It was clearly a well crafted black-ops to get skeptics to take the bait. It worked but only by erroneously assumed certification by Dr. Spencer. Remarkably, the 'warmers' want to silence critics rather than debate the merits of their position. That is perhaps the most telling.

Not only are incidences of intentionally faked science on the rise, but people seem generally not to be too upset about them. I suspect such juvenile delinquency has diminished the reputation of both science and scientists, has led to a debasement of scientific methodology, and hampers scientific advancement; but on a happier note these problematic games make such mendacious buffoons as commit these politically motivated frauds both despised and pitied.

This is a great service. This was a wonderful service and, well, now poor Rush Limbaugh has fallen for the spoof. What will happen next?

Typical Algoreite. Rather than try and have a debate on the issue (the evidence is FAR from clear as to the cause of "global warming") they simply want to harass and insult those of us who don't buy into their Inconvenient Truth.

No less a scientific authority than Rush Limbaugh took the bait, devoting an hour of airtime to explaining the ersatz paper's policy implications to his 20 million listeners, all the while dismissing anguished notes from, among others, Roy Spencer,trying to convince him that they meant the hoax was a hoax, rather than global warming , as he has so long maintained.

Here are some of the details of this year's answer to the War Of The Worlds broadcast--
http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/11/rush-to-judgeme.html

David Thorpe. Wales. Writer of children's fiction; "environmental journalist". And despite his rather smug self-satisfaction, he comes off looking somewhat silly and wholly unserious. Resulting, I think, in global warming skepticism ratcheting up a notch or two. Congratulations, Mr. Thorpe. Well done.

You might find that the real name of this person is
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This hoax seems to have lasted for about an hour, and didn't fool me. The 'hockey stick' hoax is still circulating despite being thoroughly discredited in terms of proxies and methodology. I wasn't fooled by that either.

that's really great! I'll use this action as an example of the "professional" work of climate sceptics. Thank you very much :)

While I get why, I find it regrettable this guy has to remain anonymous...

Thing is, I'd love to buy him a beer for this. Or six.

Hope someone is, anyway.

Hi,
Can you ask Dr Cox whether he had any involvement with the spoof historic temperature graph contained in Al Gore's AIT film please?

Now that one really is a classic!

Amazingly, even a fictitious climate change sceptic's website still provides proof for some, not only that climate change doesn't exist, but that it is an (international?) conspiracy for "controlling other people's freedom."

I think some people might have missed the point...

It is bad form to post personal information, including name, address, and telephone number, without permission.

I suggest that the people mainting this blog delete the comment by Simon Alexander. Posting private information like he has done is intended to lead to harrassment. It serves no legitimate purpose.

[Editors note – as far as I am aware the phone numbers this post is referring to are for corporations (ie the hosting company concerned), are in the public domain, and are not personal. If you think we have erred in this please let me know.]

Tomorrow brings the weekly column of George Monbiot, whom one imagines will have something to say,or confess, about the matter.

The problem with Rush Limbaugh and other opponents of good environmental stewardship picking up the story and reporting on it is that millions of people who share their beliefs are listening. This hoax story appears to support what they wish to believe. When a retraction is broadcast, if ever, they won't notice. They'll continue telling themselves and each other that science is behind their view that humans are not responsible for global warming. Overall, the spoof is an unfunny distraction that discredits environmentalists and scientists.

For this to be proof of "the credulity and scientific illiteracy of many of the people who call themselves climate sceptics [sic]", there needs to be a control. For instance, how many people who are believers in human-caused global warming would be snared by a site with bogus facts showing that warming was, say, worse than previously thought?

In answer to Michael Maxwell's question, given Al Gore got a share of a Nobel Peace Prize with his exaggerated claims we can safely conclude "rather a lot".

I think well done to the spoofer. I don't think sceptics are (much) more credulous than anyone else and that a fairly regular supply of these spoofs -with humiliation of the gullible to follow - will help teach us all to inspect 'evidence' before forming opinions. It is not harassment to present fairly easily uncovered spoofs and then jeer at those too hasty too check.