They really are a bunch of paranoid twits at WUWT!

It's Easter and I'm taking a day off. Couldn't resist writing about the latest denier conspiracy theory, though. (It will make a nice lead in to an article I'm working on.)

Let me start by asking you a question. If there are five explanations for something happening, which do you think your typical climate science denier will choose?

1. the most likely
2. the next most likely
3. the improbable but possible
4. the least likely
5. the one that nobody in their right mind would contemplate
6. 5. above -- and they'd blame it on a climate scientist.

If you picked the sixth (out of five options), you'd get it right.

More on John Cook in Bristol, what WUWT won't tell you

Earlier I wrote a short article about the presentation John Cook gave at Bristol University last night. His talk had the title:

Dogma vs Consensus: Letting the Evidence Speak on Climate Change

I figured you might be interested to know that you can now download the presentation from SkepticalScience.com. I believe it's a slightly cut-down version.

Source: John Cook Bristol Presentation

John used a mixture of science, humour and serious thought-provoking examples. Of course, he threw a couple of curved swinged? swung? lobbed? some cricket balls along the way, from the look of the presentation.

Understanding the science

To illustrate how valuable are public meetings on climate change, one thing John commented on was how few people can explain the greenhouse effect. In his presentation, he said that earlier this week he gave a talk elsewhere and had one person who could explain it, and they had an American accent. I gather from a tweet, at his Bristol talk it was someone from U Bristol who was able to explain it to the audience.