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Denialgate: Internal Heartland Institute Documents Unmask the Climate Denial Machine

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Interesting Times2/14/2012 8:54:23 pm PST

re: #46 Talking Point Detective

Actually, I’ve exchanged many blog comments with David Wojick at Judith Curry’s blog.

Speaking of Judith Curry, isn’t she a denier herself? She certainly sounds like one here:

For the most part, participants were well behaved and adhered to Petr Chylek’s strict rules—avoiding inflammatory terms, and steering away from personal attacks and interruptions. The one exception was Judith Curry, who apparently did not get the memo.

Her most personal attack was against Michael Mann, who she used to illustrate “uncertainty hiding” by showing a caricature of him standing next to the “uncertainty monster” holding a hockey stick and hidden by a sheet, with the cartoon-Mann saying “what uncertainty?” Next to the cartoon was and image of the cover of the book “The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science” illustrated with the multiproxy time series that Mann and his coauthors made famous. Ironically, Mann’s carefully plotted uncertainty bands were not visible on the presentation graphic, just as they were not reproduced in Fred Singer’s NIPCC report. “What uncertainty?” indeed!