Climate Denialists Crow Over NOTW Arrest
Missed amongst the fallout from the News of the World phone hacking & Police bribery scandal are climate denialist posts over the Neil Wallis arrest.
Every Denialist from Anthony Watts to Wingnut Alex Jones at Prison Planet took pains to point out that Wallis worked for East Anglia University.
Never mind that he was hired after the trumped up faux ‘climategate scandal’ was already an outrage of the day right wing staple. Never mind that his work had nothing to do with the real science and he was just hired as a PR / communications consultant. Never mind that the arrests in NOTW harm the denialist cause long term because papers friendly to their claptrap are closing. They will spin it as an AHA! in the climate conspiracy world because there was once a connection from Neil Wallis’ PR firm to East Anglia.
The reason Wallis was hired by East Anglia was likely the same reason you hire a PR firm from India if you want to convince people in India of a fact. Wallis works with the right and would be more able to convince the audience on the right of the science than anyone who was from the left.