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Monday, December 31, 2007

A Great Paper to End 2007

posted by on December 31 at 18:19 PM

Global warming is actually caused by growing numbers of CO2-emitting bacteria on the sea floor, says a study published online on 3 November in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies [pdf]. “Those who subscribe to the [human-caused climate change] theory have overlooked the primary source” of CO2 emissions, write Daniel Klein and colleagues at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The president is right! We did just need to study more!

The problem is that Klein and his team don’t exist. Neither does their Department of Climatology; Okinawa University, where the journal is purportedly published; or its editor, OU climatologist Hiroko Takebe

Um..

It’s a hoax designed “to expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of … ‘climate skeptics,’ ” according to “Mark Cox,” the self-described real author of the article. Cox says several anti-global warming Web sites cited the paper but hastily erased their coverage when the hoax was revealed.

Ha!

Happy New Years, y’all!

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1

"Y'all" was hardly in your vocabulary while I was eavesdropping in on A conversation YOU WERE HAVING at the SLOG bar get-together A FEW WEEKS AGO.

i GUESS THAT'S YOUR LITTLE HOAX cowboy

Posted by groot | December 31, 2007 6:33 PM
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You scientists are a fucking riot. What a great scam. Yes, this will help everyone take this issue seriously. Thanks.

You may be smart but you have no sense. Let's see they accuse you of making up stuff to support your agenda, so you make up stuff to support your agenda, brilliant.

Posted by whatever | December 31, 2007 7:13 PM
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@2: It was a web designer, not a scientist, who put together this hoax.

Anyone can fall for fraud, but this was a pretty obvious one--basic math errors, misclassification of species and all.

@1. It's true. I don't exist.

Posted by Jonathan Golob | December 31, 2007 7:19 PM
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I tend to agree with 2. Creationists are still quoting known paleontological hoaxes as fact.

Posted by Mickey in Ar | December 31, 2007 7:26 PM
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@2:
Right wing blogs used it. Left wing blogs didn't.

Thus: controlled experiment.
Essence of scientific method.

Y'all.

Posted by unPC | December 31, 2007 7:31 PM
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unPC are you being ironic?

Is this a left right issue?

So a left wing blogger or wag of some sort makes this up and a "several (three, thirty?) "anti-global warming web sites (what does that mean, I am anti global warming)" post links and then they take down the links when the hoax was revealed.


So someone that doesn't believe in global warming being primarily caused by GHGs made by man links to something that supports their point of view and these non-scientist web site guys don't vet the story first, BFD.

Does the slog vet every story they post?

Posted by whatever | December 31, 2007 8:02 PM
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I seem to remember the right was quite pleased about the Sokal Affair, at the time.

Posted by elenchos | December 31, 2007 8:47 PM
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Being a Sun Devil, I pretty much knew it was a hoax when I saw that the U of A was involved.

Posted by Mike of Renton | January 1, 2008 2:50 AM

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