re: #844 Charles

OK, that’s your first look at them.

I’ve been following the issues surrounding both of the Pielkes for several years, and I have no hesitation at all calling them climate change deniers. It’s what they do, with a slightly slicker facade than people like Monckton and Inhofe.

Only this time there was nothing too terribly slick at all about the misinformation. He claimed falsely, and to slander actual hard working scientists, that the heat budget and the problem of accounting for all of it, were somehow a hidden issue that proved that there was some sort of “cover-up” going on in the community.

Yet, even the most basic search of the literature, I mean put “Global Heat Budget” into google scholar, and you see instantly that there has been robust and prolific inquiry into this issue for a very log time.

It’s just a lie to claim otherwise.

What boggles me here on this blog is Walter’s fundamental intellectual dishonesty. If you think Peilke was telling the truth, that this was somehow not a big and open discussion, that one second google scholar search would put paid to the discussion either way. Yet we have 20 posts on Peilke’s reputation. Yes he and his dad are professional deniers. There is however, no need to even get into it. Either what he said was true or false and easily shown to be so.

Yet Walter can not be bothered to do such things.