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November 9, 2007
Subhoaxing for Global Warming: The Journal of Geoclimatic Studies
The global warming hoax is getting sophisticated enough to spawn subhoaxes intended to discredit the resistance. A site calling itself Journal of Geoclimatic Studies is down now, probably permanently. Slick enough to temporarily trick even Rush Limbaugh, it claimed that global warming is caused by ocean bacteria. The findings were fictional, and the entire site was a hoax, as warned by Blue Crab Boulevard.
As American Thinker suggests, this could be either a prank played by some grad students for laughs, or a new chapter in the propaganda war being waged by authoritarian leftists under the banner of environmentalism.
Here's a coincidence: the hoax originated in Machynlleth, Wales, home of the environmentalist fanatic and hard-left propagandist from whose name the term "moonbat" may have been derived, George Monbiot.
On a tip from Brooklyn Red Leg.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 9, 2007 1:18 PM
Comments
I smell government grant money and corrption.
Posted by: Mockinbird at November 10, 2007 7:45 AM
Seems like they still haven't listened to John Coleman yet
Posted by: Kreed at November 10, 2007 12:38 PM
HEY!
I'm of Welsh heritage (last name Davis) and I have a wicked since of humor.
:-)
But then there's... Charles, Prince of Wales...
:-(
I go along with the "students for laughs" theory. It's amazing what folks can come up with that other folks will believe. Ever read Wikipedia?
Posted by: Anonymous at November 10, 2007 6:26 PM
Don't you know that if you read it on the internet it is for REAL? According to moonbats,
all their idiocy is True Doctrine. Anything that is right or morally true is...fantasy and not grounded in reality.
I kid you not.
And Prince Charles of Wales is only a title.
Good grief the man is a twit. Living proof that
chlorinating the gene pool is not a bad idea.
Posted by: Cricket at November 10, 2007 11:12 PM
What propaganda war ? Politicized science is rarer than its made out to be, because for it to exist in reality, both sides need to have some inkling of what it is they are trying to politicize.
Alas , the likes of Limbaugh and Milloy are utterly and often hilariously clueless, leading to bipartisan comedies of manners such as the one bona fide scientists are presently laughing themselves silly over.
It's funnier than the Gore Nobel skit on SNL
Posted by: Russell Seitz at November 11, 2007 2:20 PM
And Prince Charles of Wales is only a title.
Good grief the man is a twit. Living proof that
chlorinating the gene pool is not a bad idea.
Letting it set for centuries is not such a good idea either. The man has the mental equivalent of a Hapsburg lip.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at November 11, 2007 6:57 PM
Slick enough to fool Rush Limbaugh? That doesn't say much. Remember everything's relative.
Posted by: twogunpete at November 12, 2007 7:33 AM
