Planet Moron: CONSENSUS WATCH – 2/8/2010

Given the unconventional nature of global warming science, it is important that Consensus supporters be prepared for additional revelations including some of the following:
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Claim: Polar Bears are resorting to cannibalism.
Source: Nostradamus.

Claim: Global warming could cause malaria as far north as Germany.
Source: A flyer Michael Mann saw in Berlin for the post-punk German band, “Malaria.”

Claim: We must reduce carbon emissions or we are all doomed.
Source: The image of Al Gore miraculously appearing one morning in a bowl of Rajendra Pachauri’s Wheatena.
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Claim: Tree ring data proves CO2 causes global warming.
Source: Hidden message found when you play the Beatles “Revolution 9” backwards.
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Claim: Hurricanes will increase in frequency and intensity unless we transition our power generation away from carbon sources and toward wind turbines.
Source: An advertisement from wind turbine manufacturer, Southwest Windpower.

- Bishop Hill blog - Fantasy inquiry team

OK, so if Sir Muir and his team are no good, who should be on the panel? - people who are suitably qualified in the areas the inquiry are going to examine, but without the environmentalist baggage. Here's a few thoughts

Media Mayhem: The skeptics 'win' -- for now | MNN - Mother Nature Network

The grasp of climate change denial is more difficult for me to fathom. One would think that most people knew better than to be won over by obvious manipulation, that most people would distinguish between the authority of science [ie, what Al Gore says?] and the yammering of political operatives.  [ie, what Richard Lindzen, Willie Soon, or Roy Spencer says?]

For a brief period in our history, an elite club helped us discern that difference.