What WUWT and the anti-world movement doesn't know - Earth Day 2016

This Earth Day, leaders from 175 nations signed the Paris Climate Agreement, which was a record for a one-day signing, according to the UN.

On this day each year there's also a tradition, if you can call it that yet, that anti-environment blogs like WUWT publish a list of unsourced quote-mines purportedly from the first Earth Day. Anti-environmentalists say that predictions didn't come to pass. The unspoken message is that therefore they will never come to pass and all their anti-environment fans can therefore feel free to continue to destroy the planet. It's an unspoken plea to "bring back smog".

William M. Briggs falsely alleges broad-scale corruption across US science - sour grapes, mashed and diced

William M. Briggs has an article up at WUWT in which he makes all sorts of wrong claims about research grants (archived here). (Incidentally Anthony Watts called him William H. Briggs, and still hasn't corrected it, despite this tweet only four or so minutes after the article appeared.)

Now maybe William has never received a grant to do any research. From the quality of his recent efforts on "climate" papers, that wouldn't surprise. (See here and here and here and here and DJ in the HW comments here.) And the way William sells himself as numerologist for the stars or whatever (actually it's statistician to the stars with an exclamation point), that wouldn't surprise either.

William M. Briggs hits out at all sciences funded by US government grants

Although this blog is about climate, and WUWT (where the article appeared) is against climate science - the article by William M. Briggs is not restricted to climate-related science. It is about science in general. His article isn't about climate science in particular. He is taking a swipe at all government-funded scientific research in the USA, research scientists and Deans at universities.

This includes everything from space science through to health science through to social science and beyond. It covers physics, chemistry, biology and, presumably, applied science such as nano-technology and nuclear science as well as all the social sciences.

Another scientist banned from HotCopper: Younglogga

HotCopper is going great guns in its ongoing efforts to stifle discussion of science.  It’s banned another poster who tried to make the HotCopper Science and Medicine S&M forum about science instead of remaining a troll-infested meeting ground for the anti-science illiterati.

True to form, mods seem to be deleting any posts commenting on his disappearance.  This is in keeping with the HotCopper Omertà (selectively applied), so we’ll probably never know why he was banned.  (Evidence suggests that on HotCopper freedom of speech is a prerogative of redneck males only – see here.  Mods would probably all quit if HotCopper introduced a more open moderation policy.)

Younglogga was always polite, made fact-filled posts and would have been considered a treasured asset of any healthy discussion board.  His posts were very rarely moderated, except when the mods took sides with the trolls who make incessant complaints that some people post about real science instead of anti-science on the science and medicine forum.

Fare thee well, Younglogga.  You brought clarity and science if briefly to brighten the gloominess of that arid block of cyberspace.

This old Irish blessing is for you, though we’ve never met. (I’m not religious but I’ve always liked it.)

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.