Washington Times notices DeSmogBlog’s Climate “Disinformation Database”
Eric Worrall / 5 hours ago May 3, 2016
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Washington Times columnist Richard Rahn has noticed his name has been included in DeSmogBlog’s Global Warming “Disinformation Database” – and he’s not happy about it.
The return of pseudo-science
The global warming industry lashes out in defense of its funding.
This past month, I received an email from a European friend (who has a doctorate in chemistry) saying: “Dear Richard: Now you are a member of this illustrious club! I am beginning to be afraid! What is going on?” It seems my name had been put on a “Global Warming Disinformation Database.” This past Saturday, The Wall Street Journal in its lead editorial on the “climate police” noted that the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has demanded that the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) “cough up a decade of emails and policy work, as well as a list of private donors” (as if the First Amendment did not exist), because the institute has had the audacity to question.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has invited more than a dozen state attorneys general to join him in investigating fossil fuel companies and their donations, because they raised questions about some of the “science” used by the global warming lobby. Al Gore joined him at the press conference. This is the same Al Gore who told us back in January 2006 that unless we took “drastic measures” to reduce greenhouse gases, in only 10 years the earth would reach “a point of no return.” Mr. Gore also told us the Arctic Ocean would be largely free of sea ice by 2010 — but the sea ice is still there.
What is going on is nothing more than modern-day Lysenkoism, named after Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko, who had rejected Mendelian inheritance and the evolutionary theory of natural selection, and believed that acquired characteristics of a plant (like grafting of fruit trees) would be inherited by later generations. Lysenko was unable to win his arguments by the empirical evidence or sound theory but, since Stalin liked his ideas, it was made illegal to have any other opinion. Finally, after changes in Soviet leadership, physicist Andrei Sakharov spoke out against Lysenko in the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences in 1964: “He is responsible for the shameful backwardness of Soviet biology and of genetics in particular, for the dissemination of pseudo-scientific views, for adventurism, for the degradation of learning, and for the defamation, firings, arrests, even deaths of many genuine scientists.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/2/richard-rahn-global-warming-and-the-return-of-pseu/
The following is a link to the database: http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database
Naturally the first thing I did was look for my own name. Disappointingly I only rate a footnote in Anthony’s entry, which I guess is better than nothing.
On a serious note, it is disturbing that climate alarmists are compiling such ridiculously detailed “dossiers”, given the current US government attempt to revive the abuses of the McCarthy era, as climate advocates lose all sense of perspective in their increasingly desperate efforts to rally their dying cause.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/03/washington-times-notices-desmogblogs-climate-disinformation-database/
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May 3, 2016 at 7:08 am
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Mark says:
May 3, 2016 at 4:18 am
Desmog is another well funded Soros Rockefeller type of misinformation site. It promotes genetic fallacies over scientific evidence
Mark says:
May 3, 2016 at 4:19 am
Desmog screams “DONT LOOK AT THE SCIENCE! LOOK AT CHARACTER ASSASSINATION!”
Willis Eschenbach says:
May 3, 2016 at 4:38 am
It’s hilarious. Regarding me, they say:
Publications
According to SkepticalScience, Willis Eschenbach has not published any papers in peer-reviewed journals that take a negative or explicitly doubtful stance on man-made climate change. [16]
Given that I now have five different peer-reviewed publications in the journals, one of them a peer-reviewed “Communications Arising” in Nature magazine, all of which are revealed by a simple search on Google Scholar … I fear they are as credible as the rest of the alarmists. For example, they also say:
June, 2009
Eschenbach put forward a hypothesis that clouds and thunderstorms, particularly in the tropics, control the earth’s temperature. [13]
Note that his paper does not appear to be published anywhere but on the climate change skeptic blog Watts Up With That. [14]
Since that paper was peer-reviewed and published in Energy and Environment, they are no more right about that than about CO2 …
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PS—in addition to the publications, my citation count is over fifty now … lying jerks.
David Middleton says
May 3, 2016 at 4:57 am
The authors of at least two of my college textbooks are on the list: Reid Bryson and Don Easterbrook. Reid Bryson was essentially the “father” of scientific climatology. |
