Yet again Hearnden wheels out the propaganda. The site “exxonsecrets.org” is a classic example of the game “Six Degrees” in which everything is related to everything else by six degrees.

The same could be done for RealClimate which was set up by Environmental Media Services. They are in turn connected to a long list of environmental groups whose lifeblood (read donations) rely on scary scenarios.

Thus Steve McIntyre is on there because he’s written papers with Ross McKitrick who is an unpaid associate of the Frasier Institute which received money from Exxon (some trivial amount like $100,000) three years ago. Thus I am also infected with the dread Exxon disease since I setup the weblog for Steve McIntyre….and so on.

It’s a trick called “Poisoning the Well” a pre-emptive ad hominem attack on someone because YOU CAN’T FAULT THEIR CLAIMS ON A SCIENTIFIC BASIS. If you care to calculate if Exxon’s money was distributed equally, you’ll find that Steve has somehow been turned to “climate skepticism” to the tune of a few pennies. Believe that? Of course you do. It’s easier than proving Steve is wrong, or even that “the climate will heat up by 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8 or more degrees in the next century which you decline to prove either.

The top 16 environmental organization raked in last year over $2 billion. You’d think with all that money they’s be able to buy a single skeptic like Richard Lindzen or Patrick Michaels.

This would be difficult enough to take were it not for the fact that you are paid a large amount from the EU to not produce food and even the fossil fuels that you use to not produce them are subsidized by UK taxpayers like me through the “red diesel” scheme. I don’t see you retiring the tractor and breaking in the oxen for the plough, so perhaps you’re on the take from Big Oil yourself.

You have yet to show that AGW is detectable let alone significant. Instead you spend too much time on a computer telling everyone else your crazy beliefs without bothering with so much as a calculator.

I think we all agree what Big Oil motives are. What we don’t agree on is what is the motive for AGW scientists not adhering to time honored scientific principles of transparency and peer review. It is because of the weakness of the AGW hypothesis. But why stick to a weak hypothesis? The climate science financing bubble will burst if AGW is discredited.

Re #16

Mann saying that Steve’s work is garbage is not an adequate response.

But, it seems, judging by your many acerbic posts, the reverse is? LOL.

There is vastly more money for the climate science field selling the AGW hyposthesis. This is transparently obvious to me. It’s not only capitalist corporations that seek to maximize income. Everyone seeks to maximize income and resources and climate scientists are no different. Anyone have a better explanation?

one journal at a time and one scientist at a time

I guess so. It’s just that that sounds like a terribly slow process. Particularly journals – from what Steve has been finding, it sounds like they are going to need some fairly senior level changes before they start doing the job properly.
John, you’re in the UK, aren’t you ? You know that ridiculous Carbon Trust advert that tells us we are all in the same position as Robert Oppenheimer ? If I see that damn thing any more, I swear I’m going to find out what an apoplectic fit is, from the inside.