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To: Sdgla who wrote (1069347)

5/15/2018 1:25:17 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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OnlyTricks Peter...
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Denier weirdness: The crank blog popularity contest
\Sou | 3:54 AM

A commenter alerted me to a post by science denier Pierre Gosselin ( archived here). He reckons that because there are quite a few climate cranks who run blogs, it disproves the fact that 97% of science papers on the topic find that humans are causing climate change. Or something like that. Which of course it doesn't.

Pierre Gosselin, you may recall, back in 2008, two years before the equal hottest year on record so far, said he thought that Earth would become icy cold by 2020, writing ( archived here):

Pierre Gosselin says:
October 23, 2008 at 2:03 am-2.5°C by 2020!

Here is what Pierre's prediction looks like. In six years from now, according to Pierre Gosselin, the temperature will drop to 2.5 degrees Celsius below that at the beginning of the 20th century:

Data sources: NASA and WUWT

blog.hotwhopper.com

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