tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post5991475334770308970..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: More denier wackiness from WUWT - OMG It's Insects! Part 2Souhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-14524013749132334542013-06-15T12:45:30.576+10:002013-06-15T12:45:30.576+10:00I briefly entertained the thought that Ronald D Vo...I briefly entertained the thought that Ronald D Voisin was a fake denier taking the mickey. But after a very quick google search I found there really is such a person. And he's probably a "very serious" person, going by his writing style.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-16505090089021627372013-06-15T08:31:39.824+10:002013-06-15T08:31:39.824+10:00When all the other possibilities have been elimina...When all the other possibilities have been eliminated we're left with the last one - however preposterous. That someone would write something like this isn't surprising. Such a thing will eventually happen when there are millions of people sitting at as many keyboards. What needs explaining is why Anthony would publish it.<br />It seemed appropriate for The Onion. A caricature written by someone familiar with denier arguments who wanted to mock the idea of a creative and personal pick-and-choose scientific outlook.<br />There can be only one reason for Anthony to include something as execrable as this on a web site with pretensions of 'science'. I hadn't expected it to happen so soon. And I never thought it would happen this way. But here it is. Anthony must've given up his skeptic positions, and secretly converted to consensus AGW, mid-range sensitivity and all..<br />Assuming such a real conversion, his dilemma would be what to do next to bring as many of his readers along with him. And maybe some of his commenters.<br />In hindsight, his acceptance of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas (with low sensitivity), and eviction of the dragon slayers, might be considered a first step forward. And maybe the foray wasn't considered successful. Leading from the front towards climate positions he'd long derided may not work.<br />So it now appears that he's chosen the other route. To drive away his more reasonable readers, back to a more respectable climate science. By demonstrating how knee-jerk anti-science passes via D.I.Y. science into obvious fantasy.Same Ordinary Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07688744006745904247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-19769802021515557032013-06-15T06:58:30.112+10:002013-06-15T06:58:30.112+10:00I just loved the cartoon graph he put up. It'...I just loved the cartoon graph he put up. It's not the sort of thing that could easily be reused as evidence in a later post, is it? I tried to find a graph that it resembled. Couldn't find one. Now there's a surprise. It also picks Mediterranean civilisations to illustrate points but doesn't have anything to say about Eastern or American civilisations. But I'm taking it too seriously because although he has now discovered photsynthesis, he has failed to discover respiration.Catmandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12313870265499015076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-20962407156608349562013-06-14T20:26:46.802+10:002013-06-14T20:26:46.802+10:00Somehow Roland hasn't figured out that all the...Somehow Roland hasn't figured out that all these "exploding plants" are taking CO2 from the atmosphere. And from a trophic point of view, it is impossible that the insects, if not "inhibited", would have emitted more CO2 than the plants that they feed on absorb.Lars Karlssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06158469980966810882noreply@blogger.com