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The Heartland Institute (a very dodgy outfit it seems ) recently issued a lit of 500 scientists they say have “Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares”. That’s a lot of scientists and a lot of doubt if it were true. The list includes several New Zealanders including Jim Salinger from NIWA.

Heartland funded [and] the NZ pseudo scientists Bryan Leyland and Owen McShane to go to International Climates talks in Bali.

The article, by Hudson Institute director and Heartland “Senior Fellow” Dennis T. Avery claims to be a list of scientists whose work contradicts the overwhelming scientific agreement that human-induced climate change is endangering the world as we know it.

But it seems they’re on shaky ground. Dozens of scientists are now demanding that their names be removed from the list since desmogblog.com wrote to many of the scientists asking them to clarify their position.

DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the scientists calling their attention to the list. So far - in less than 24 hours - three dozen of those scientists had responded in outrage, denying that their research supports Avery’s conclusions and demanding that their names be removed.

You can see some of their replies over at desmogblog.com

Continue reading ‘I smell a law suit’

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. The NZ flat earth society have come out and made an overture to the Climate Science Coalition (raving climate skeptics). They obviously see them as kindred spirits.

We at the Flat Earth Society have spent so many years out in the cold, shunned by Government, science and most of society.

But on Friday night a glimmer of hope appeared for us in the form of the climate sceptic group, the NZ Climate Science Coalition. They were hosting a talk by the Australian climate sceptic (and stratigraphist which is about rock layering) Bob Carter, at the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron in Auckland.

We couldn’t afford the dinner, so we got a little appeal letter together for the good chaps of the NZCSC.

We dressed in the outfits from our favourite time – the medieval warm period – and went off down to Westhaven.

Our appeal goes like this: The myth that the earth is round has been the result of a sustained conspiracy by both Governments and the likes of NASA for centuries. Flat Earthers like us have continued the battle, but we’ve been a lone voice.

With friends like these … who needs science?

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY NZ

Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong.

- Paul Ehrlich

It is human nature to protect your own interests. We may recall the extensive and incredibly successful campaign of the American tobacco companies to conceal the link between cancer and the use of tobacco products. For decades, they knew the reality of the addictive nature of nicotine and the carcinogenic effects of tobacco use. For decades, they successfully kept that reality hidden from the American public. [ Read more ]