New fraud promotion from Cornell's Rosenberg and Fitzpatrick

A few years ago on this blog, I spend a lot of time helping to expose Cornell's highly-publicized, peer-reviewed, fraudulent claim of the Arkansas rediscovery of a living Ivory-billed woodpecker.

Two key figures in that fraud have evidently moved on to promote the global warming hoax:

Coastal and ocean birds most at risk from climate change, report says - San Jose Mercury News

"There are a significant number of birds that are facing real, immediate threats," said John Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "Climate change clearly is going to affect some more than others."

Feds: U.S. birds declining due to changing climate - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com

"Birds are excellent indicators of the health of our environment, and right now they are telling us an important story about climate change," said Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg, director of Conservation Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in a statement on the report. "Many species of conservation concern will face heightened threats, giving us an increased sense of urgency to protect and conserve vital bird habitat."

Flashback: Fitz"patrick" STILL selling the Luneau video?!

This sounds like fraud to me:

Wednesday night, Dr. Fitzpatrick reviewed the evidence for the bird's continued existence. He showed the brief film and analyzed it. The bird in the film certainly looked, to an untrained backyard birder like myself, like an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence for me was the analysis of wingbeats that matched exactly with what was known of the wingbeats from the 1940s birds.

Flashback: Deliberate deception?

As I wrote previously, Rosenberg played some ARU kent calls, failing to mention that several searchers reported hearing and seeing blue jays making sounds very much like this in this area. Afterwards, he said "...we, um, believe they may very likely be an Ivory-billed Woodpecker".

In my opinion, Rosenberg's failure to even mention the critical blue jay information seems like a deliberate attempt to deceive the NPR listeners.

[Just how lousy was Cornell's Ivory-bill "evidence"? Check out these pictures]

I think that all eight of these pictures are probably just artifacts of an unfocused camera. I think that Cornell might suggest that two of them are views of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Here's a challenge for you--which two are Ivory-bills, and why?

By the way, the Ivory-bill controversy contained a lot of the same elements of the global warming controversy--an absolutely lousy "body of evidence", ridiculous models, believers versus realists, bloggers vs mainstream media, appeals to authority and peer-review, etc etc.

As I watch the global warming hoax crumble, I feel like I've "seen this movie before".