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| quote: | Black Ops PR in Global Warming Hoax? (updated)
James Lewis
Rush Limbaugh was hoaxed today by a very slick and superficially plausible Global Warming fraud. This resembles the kind of Black PR operation we have just been warning about. The trick is to plant a plausible story that fits a conservative theme, in this case skepticism about anthropogenic GlobWarm.
The hoax looks very professional. A fraudulent scientific journal was created on the web, called the "Journal of Geoclimatic Studies." The journal is fake, the article claiming to disprove the popular Global Warming meme is fake, the Editorial Board is fake, and the authors are faked.
The key to this fraud is its professionalism. All the visible features of the hoax are superficially possible. They do not stand up to deeper examination, but the hoaxers succeeded in fooling Rush for some minutes before he caught it.
The Left is bound to trumpet their momentary success as a proof that the GlobWarm skeptics are wrong.
Two possibilities. One is a bunch of smart grad students at MIT or Caltech. That's the innocent explanation, and we can all have a good laugh.
The other possibility is a very slick dirty trick from the Left.
It could be hard to distinguish between the two, since college students also tend to be Leftist True Believers. We will probably find out more in the coming days. The web allows a lot of back-tracing.
We have previously warned about likely Black PR in the blogosphere. It is possible that others have been planted. We will undoubtedly see other Black PR ops as the election season heats up.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...al_warming.html |
hahaha Damnit those dirty sneaky libruls and their black PR tricks. How dare they trick a great conservative thinker like Rush into proving hes a total douche that just likes to hear himself talk!
More on what happened from nature.com:
| quote: | Fake climate change paper - November 09, 2007
earthnasa.jpgArguments over global warming have taken a strange turn. There’s a big hubbub in the blogosphere over a fake paper purporting to refute “manmade global warming theory”.
The paper itself appears to have been removed from the web, but google’s cache of it is still there. There’s a cache of the “editorial” that goes with it as well. The paper concluded “We have no choice but to conclude that the recent increase in global temperatures, which has caused so much disquiet among policy makers, bears no relation to industrial emissions, but is in fact a natural phenomenom.”
However the listed authors and their departments don’t seem to exist. The listed editorial board is similarly suspect. These facts are causing some amusement at the Register, as well as on various blogs. One theory is that this spoof is the work of UK author David Thorpe (Desmog blog, Prometheus). However Thorpe has denied this:
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Let's be clear. I did not write the content of the site. Someone else did. I designed the site because I was asked to by someone who knew I would be sympathetic to the joke. I appreciate it looks as though I wrote it. I even wish I had written it, because it's very funny. But I didn't.
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This does seem to have been a just a joke, played on some of the more outspoken (or less careful) critics of climate change argument. However they are already repurposing it to show themselves in a good light. “I, along with a ton of other bloggers, and even Rush Limbaugh fell for what has turned out to be a complete hoax,” says Peer Review Florida. “Despite the the fact that the paper I used as the lead in to a discussion was false, it remains true that global warming advocates have a religious zeal about defending their beliefs on the subject and those who dare disagree are scorned.”
We await with interest the other papers listed to appear in the journal...
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegre...ge_paper_1.html |
and the actual article (since removed but cached by google):
http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cach...ic_bacteria.htm |
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