Face the science… face the science…

cite as: F. Bi. 2008. Face the science… face the science… Intl. J. Inact., 1:109–111

Alan Caruba, who apparently still thinks that the Heartland 500 list is a “petition”, wrote on this blog,

Why splash about visiting MoveOff sites when you can get it direct from the source? Come visit www.anxietycenter.com or if you are particularly masochistic, you can visit my blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

Nice to watch you nibble around the edges instead of confronting the actual science. It would so boring if we had to talk about that.

Well, I just visited his blog. I was trying to find some science to confront, but I couldn’t find any. What I did find was the same old nonsense and opinionating;

The soft belly of a conservative web site?

cite as: F. Bi. 2008. The soft belly of a conservative web site? Intl. J. Inact., 1:107–108

Primo

Well, well, well. Alan Caruba, who referred to a list of unwilling scientists as a “petition”, is now writing rubbish about climate change again. In a new opinion piece, he claims that the Heartland climate inactivist conference was attended by

the world’s leading climatologists, meteorologists, economists and others

which sounds so authoritative, reliable, and impressive… until you find that he considers Joe d’Aleo a “climate expert”. And then there’s the usual stuff about how the global warming theory is a mass hysteria phenomenon, and at the same time it’s also a huge plot to kill capitalism, a plot which was introduced when socialism (or it is communism?) failed to do the job, or something…

Secundo

More interesting than Caruba’s article, is where it’s hosted.

List of unwilling scientists is now a “petition”… yeah right

cite as: F. Bi. 2008. List of unwilling scientists is now a “petition”… yeah right. Intl. J. Inact., 1:57

I thought climate inactivists aren’t willing to talk about the Heartland 500 debacle. Well, it turns out I’m wrong. Alan Caruba, writing for the Cybercast News Service, decided that all that the story needed was some — um — dramatic improvement:

The May Greenpeace news release attacked Heartland’s citation of a petition signed by “more than 500 qualified researchers whose research in professional journals provides historic and/or physical proxy evidence” that debunks the global warming hoax.

Yeah right, when you have a list of scientists such that many of them have explicitly asked to have their names removed from the list, the list suddenly becomes a “petition” which was “signed by” the scientists themselves.

The funny thing is, Caruba’s tale doesn’t even begin to gel with Heartland’s own account that Avery did in fact create the list unilaterally (emphasis mine):

They [scientists] have no right [...] to demand that their names be removed from a bibliography composed by researchers with whom they disagree.

Then again, since when did inactivists care if their own tall tales can’t even agree with one another?

Update 2008-06-05: Turns out that the exact same essay, with the exact same nonsense, was already published on NewsByUs on 1 Jun, prior to its appearance on CNS.