Jan
Monckton blasts Scientific American’s climate lies
(Monckton’s rebuttal is a couple weeks old, but it’s worth mentioning here for those who have not read it.)
Another attack on those questioning climate change, and another swift knock out punch by Lord Christopher Monckton. This time the opponent is Scientific American, which has attacked James Inhofe, one of the few US Senators fighting the battle against global warming quackery.
Here’s the slamming introduction, before he really gets into it.
In December 2009, Scientific American, once a respected popular-science journal and now a pulp science-fiction picture comic, viciously attacked US Senator James Inhofe because he had proclaimed 2009 to be the Year of the Skeptic. By skepticism, he meant “standing up and exposing the science, the costs and the hysteria behind global warming alarmism”.
Venomously, Science Fiction American’s editorial comment continued: “Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those whom Inhofe calls skeptics are more commonly termed contrarians, naysayers and denialists.” Yah-Boo! This name-calling marks the depth of unscientific desperation to which the proponents of the “global warming” nonsense have now sunk.
Unscientific American pompously continued: “Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course—some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.”
Politicized American, following a host of similarly left-leaning bodies such as the Royal Society and the unspeakable BBC, proceeded to parody and then condemn the now-overwhelming scientific case against the notion that CO2 is the principal driver of the past half-century’s “global warming” by setting up and then knocking down seven feeble straw men – childish, dishonest simulacra of the true scientific arguments against “global warming” hysteria. It described its straw men as “only a partial list of the contrarians’ bad arguments”. Yah-Boo!
Read it all: Scientific American’s Climate Lies @ The SPPI Blog.
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I hope someone will compile a list of all those magazines and that are pro AGW so that we can boycott them.
I, for one, will never advertise in, or buy Scientific American.