Something of a classic, from Richard Telford. He’s discussing Soon’s Heartland presentation. Here’s a screenshot:
Soon is trying to point out the importance of the value of the solar insolation, which he believes needs to be heavily fiddled to make the GCMs come out right. To prove this, he’s chosen a paper about an aquaplanet experiment. Aquaplanets themselves are a perfectly respectable thing to do: they offer you a heavily simplified “planet” with no irritating land-sea constrast, or orography, to get in the way of your dynamics. Soon wants to emphasise how unrealistic the temperature is, so he pulls out the highest global average value – 35 oC – and then adds a made-up 3 oC on top of that to get an entirely fictitious 38 oC.
Its not really clear if Soon is deliberately lying, or just clueless, but denialist drivel doesn’t get much worse.
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Something of a classic, from Richard Telford. He’s discussing Soon’s Heartland presentation. Here’s a screenshot:
Soon is trying to point out the importance of the value of the solar insolation, which he believes needs to be heavily fiddled to make the GCMs come out right. To prove this, he’s chosen a paper about an aquaplanet experiment. Aquaplanets themselves are a perfectly respectable thing to do: they offer you a heavily simplified “planet” with no irritating land-sea constrast, or orography, to get in the way of your dynamics. Soon wants to emphasise how unrealistic the temperature is, so he pulls out the highest global average value – 35 oC – and then adds a made-up 3 oC on top of that to get an entirely fictitious 38 oC.
Its not really clear if Soon is deliberately lying, or just clueless, but denialist drivel doesn’t get much worse.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1DL8wZm
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