Eric Worrall is deeply offended by the New York Times *and* wants to trash the world
Sou | 11:42 AM
 Climate disinformer Eric Worrall took a short quiz at the New York Times (on WUWT archived here). The quiz was a few simple questions about what decisions Donald Trump should take in regard to oil, gas and protecting the planet Earth and the people who live on it.
Eric chose to tell Donald Trump to trash the planet, and then pretended to be deeply offended when he was told by the New York Times in response to his choices:
You did a very bad job protecting the environment and may have made many of the worst effects of climate change more likely. It could hardly have been worse.
On the upside for President Trump, Republicans in Congress and many of the people who voted for him will support most of your decisions. We guess it’s true what they say about dark clouds (something about silver linings?).
What does he expect? That anyone but his fellow planet wreckers would thank him for more floods, more drought, more heat waves, poorer crops, more wildfires, more skin cancer and faster global warming?
One other thing his short article shows is that Eric knows that deniers, disinformers and fake sceptics will avoid reading facts they don't like. They'd probably rather read nonsense at climate conspiracy blogs, fake news and white supremacist rants at Breitbart than have to face reality.
As you know, there is a large proportion of the US (and Australian) population who are opposed to education, knowledge and the advancement of humanity. That's not the case everywhere, thank goodness. An illiterati from the USA, Myron Ebell, was recently told where to get off by conservative politicians in the UK, Eric Worrall's home country. Ebell basically said - don't listen to experts. I don't know if he said just who he thinks the deplorables should listen to, though I doubt it was Eric Worrall. Anyway, the response was sharp, according to Desmog UK:
Lord Greg Barker publicly pleaded with Ebell to “please, please stop trashing experts. It is an incredibly dangerous thing to do”.
The former UK climate minister said: “The idea that climate deniers or the extreme sceptics represent anything other than a tiny disproportionate voice at the extreme of the argument is wrong. Mainstream Conservatives are pro-climate action.”
Michael Liebrich, chairman of the advisory board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, likewise said he was “uncomfortable” about the comments Ebell made in his speech.
In his own keynote address, Liebrich said “we don’t have to reject the arguments and say we don’t believe in experts. We absolutely believe in experts. We cannot be in the business of rejecting science”.
EU climate chief, Jos Debelke, also rejected Ebell’s anti-expert posturing.
Thankfully, it's not yet the entire world who wants to promote dumb ignorance over the best, most knowledgeable information from the cleverest people in the world. What will Eric do when the food runs out? He'll probably just say "it's happened before, this is nothing unusual, it's nothing to worry about" as he totters through the floods and pouring rain, or drives his dirty unwashed car over his dead lawn in the next major drought.
By the way, the blurb you get back from the NY Times when you answer the questions (whatever you reply) is extremely polite. One could hardly take offense. Either Eric is very thin-skinned or he's just pretending to be offended to get page hits for Anthony Watts.
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