tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post5650889870516793010..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Stefan Rahmstorf wins the AGU Climate Communication Prize, so WUWT compares him to HitlerSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-40170302480410153852017-09-04T22:35:25.593+10:002017-09-04T22:35:25.593+10:00I've added an update to the article, after cor...I've added <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2017/08/stefan-rahmstorf-wins-agu-climate.html#update" rel="nofollow">an update to the article</a>, after correspondence with Stefan Rahmstorf. He sent me info about the email exchange that Duane Thresher calls "Gestapo tactics".Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-8348780980438377122017-09-01T20:24:48.308+10:002017-09-01T20:24:48.308+10:00"Somewhere down the line, however, something ..."Somewhere down the line, however, something seems to have gone really, really wrong with Thresher. I guess it was because of what happened with his wife"<br /><br />You can't leave me hanging like this! What happened?Mighty Drunkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07111065683737068582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-30624304753933863512017-08-30T22:47:21.429+10:002017-08-30T22:47:21.429+10:00I only found one paper in Google Scholar. There ar...I only found one paper in Google Scholar. There are four other published papers listed <a href="http://columbia-phd.org/RealClimatologists/AboutUs/index.html#Thresher" rel="nofollow">on his website</a> (making it five in total) plus a PhD thesis. Most of them were from a whole bunch of authors and over a two year period - 2005-2007. The only one in the last ten years was seven years ago in 2010, and that's just a report of a workshop on dendrochronology. He's also listed a paper he couldn't get published, and what looks like a conference abstract from years ago.<br /><br /><br />It looks as if he was a <a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dogsbody" rel="nofollow">dogsbody</a> for a while, not a publishing researcher, maybe employed as a post-doc.<br /><br />He's got a huge chip on his shoulder. It might have something to do with being knocked back for a job he wanted. He's obviously given up on that score now and decided to lash out at all and sundry instead. Not the wisest course of action I'd have thought. <br /><br />He might be trying to get on a denier speaker's circuit and make a few bucks that way. Who knows. He's making an insalubrious start by getting WUWT to copy and paste some silly whining bordering on defamation of scientist he envies.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-82096744743794111442017-08-30T16:10:01.397+10:002017-08-30T16:10:01.397+10:00Actually, believe it or not, but Thresher does hav...Actually, believe it or not, but Thresher does have more papers with Gavin Schmidt than just the one you found.<br /><br />Somewhere down the line, however, something seems to have gone really, really wrong with Thresher. I guess it was because of what happened with his wifeMarconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-33984973118111082732017-08-30T07:05:08.073+10:002017-08-30T07:05:08.073+10:00I noticed that this Duane Thresher claims to have ...I noticed that this Duane Thresher claims to have worked with Gavin Schmidt over a period of 7 years, and claims him as "a friend". I checked on Google Scholar, and found precisely one paper authored by Thresher. It was indeed co-authored by Schmidt. Only problem: it was authored by more than 30 other people, so his link with Schmidt seems pretty tenuous. No other papers by anyone called Duane Thresher, or D. Thresherbill hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849188148172259760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-40835758673473927022017-08-29T16:45:46.701+10:002017-08-29T16:45:46.701+10:00I am proud to say Stefan Rahmstorf did his PhD at ...I am proud to say Stefan Rahmstorf did his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. But did that Auckland University denier de Freitas (deceased) do his PhD at Queensland? And didn't denier Christy do his PhD under Kiwi Kevin Trenberth at Illinois?<br /><br />Quite clever people can be truly foolish no matter the training.<br /><br />Sadly Watts uses them to conduct an orchestra of windbags, blowhards and organ grinders.Dennis Hornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14578896991480042320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-64932578945404534262017-08-29T00:36:15.992+10:002017-08-29T00:36:15.992+10:00"Willis Eschenbach is nuts."
Ya think? ...<i>"Willis Eschenbach is nuts."</i><br /><br />Ya think? Also an egomaniac, but one who (unfortunately) knows how to write complete sentences. That's what makes him more evil.<br /><br />@whuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297101284358849575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-38081025591266211872017-08-28T22:41:10.828+10:002017-08-28T22:41:10.828+10:00"Lost the plot" is an expression. It'..."Lost the plot" is an expression. It's hard to explain exactly what it means, but this comes close:<br /><br />http://www.slang-dictionary.org/australian-slang/lost_the_plotSouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-35660952998264459962017-08-28T22:32:35.491+10:002017-08-28T22:32:35.491+10:00Willis misinterpreted this as if it was a Rahmstor...<i>Willis misinterpreted this as if it was a Rahmstorf paper</i> <br /><br />I think the explanation is quite simple. Skim the first five or six paragraphs, and don't read the rest of the article.<br /><br />A very quick skim of the paper could give the impression that it was he Ramsdorf paper that was retracted. Well, that's how it struck me on a quick skim,and I had to go back and check my proper names and the sequence to see where the problem lies. I think it was somewhere between parap 4 and 6, inclusive.<br /><br />Don't bother reading the last paragraph and voilà.jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-44147580829363054872017-08-28T22:12:18.779+10:002017-08-28T22:12:18.779+10:00Its rather like here in the UK where the hard line...Its rather like here in the UK where the hard line Brexiters are celebrating even as we topple over an economic cliff.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-12735223429138613962017-08-28T21:23:14.545+10:002017-08-28T21:23:14.545+10:00Hopefully not a "total" win. Surely ther...Hopefully not a "total" win. Surely there is some recovery from that.<br /><br />Even if they have won the the president does not mean they have not lost the plot. Jammy Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360437479098314946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-52563634241954096852017-08-28T21:16:10.453+10:002017-08-28T21:16:10.453+10:00'If you need more evidence that deniers are sl...'If you need more evidence that deniers are sleazy nut cases who have totally lost the plot' - sorry, they have just won the US presidency. That is not totally losing, that is a total win. cRR Kampenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571285063752477448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-27525035078911748912017-08-28T20:33:52.093+10:002017-08-28T20:33:52.093+10:00Trump tweet on Harvey.
"Even experts have s...Trump tweet on Harvey. <br /><br /><b><i>"Even experts have said they've never seen one like this!"</i></b><br /><br />Are experts OK now? Presumably if they talk about the correct sort of expertise. <br /><br />Jammy Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360437479098314946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-90363559800640874112017-08-28T18:19:08.542+10:002017-08-28T18:19:08.542+10:00I meant the pretense that deniers are against what...I meant the pretense that deniers are against what Hitler stood for. (Tim Ball <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/11/anthony-watts-tries-for-one-foot-in.html" rel="nofollow">has quoted Hitler</a> as if he's a hero, but no other WUWT author has done that yet.)Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-12496086116832561442017-08-28T18:14:03.575+10:002017-08-28T18:14:03.575+10:00"I don't know much longer they can ...&qu...<i>"I don't know much longer they can ..."</i><br /><br />To infinity and beyond. h/t Buzz Lightyear<br /><br />How many times have you said something like this Sou? Their indefatigability is, well, indefatigable. Jammy Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360437479098314946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-89208923516568385442017-08-28T18:06:08.441+10:002017-08-28T18:06:08.441+10:00I expect he's just faking that too. WUWT is s...I expect he's just faking that too. WUWT is still very pro Trump even though he's a white supremacist who just pardoned a sadistic racist killer. (I don't know much longer they can keep up the pretence.)Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-66009681295688433602017-08-28T16:24:19.130+10:002017-08-28T16:24:19.130+10:00Perhaps, in these days of Trump, we should be grat...Perhaps, in these days of Trump, we should be grateful that Charles the Moderator still sees Hitler as a bad guy.Millicentnoreply@blogger.com