Nov 07 2007
Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the death of manmade global warming theory?
Apparently there’s a hubbub about a new paper that totally refutes the theory of “manmade [sic] global warming”.
The title alone should give away that this isn’t published in a real journal. Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the death of manmade global warming theory? ‘Manmade’? Come on. Firstly, that’s sexist. Women also contribute to global warming. Secondly, it’s poor grammar. Since my grammar on this blog is horrible, I shouldn’t be judging. But I am anyway. Thirdly, why use a word like manmade when you can use a longer word like anthropogenic or anthropic? The answer is because the target audience doesn’t understand long words. And is apparently not bright enough to open a dictionary… or in this case, copy and paste it into Google (or any other search engine would work too).
Leaving that aside, I was extraordinarily interested to learn about the “death of manmade global warming”, so I thought I’d hop over to the Department of Climatology. I walked all about campus, but I couldn’t find it. [No actual walking was done; no pseudo-anonymous bloggers were injured during said non-walking event.] Perhaps the editors of this prestigious journal made a boo-boo and meant the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Great! There’s just a small problem; there is no one named Daniel A. Klein or Mandeep J. Gupta in the department. There is no one named anything like that in the department. In fact, as far as I can tell, there is no one by those names on the entire campus! Crap. I guess I won’t be having that discussion after all.
Needless to say, it’s a fake article in a fake journal written by fake authors using fake data and hosted on a fake website. I don’t know what qualifies as a fake website, but this surely must satisfy them. It’s fake.
Desmog Blog found this before me. 
But to my credit, it hasn’t showed up in my feed reader yet.
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Holy crap…that’s crazy…I tried googling the people on the “editorial board” of that journal and got nada…it looks like every name is completely made up!
Does whoever is behind this think they can actually get away with it?
i see now…the DeSmogBlog post is showing that it is some kind of spoof, some publicity stunt of some kind (?)
DeSmogBlog says it a spoof, but I’m not convinced - call me a skeptic. They attribute it to David Thorpe, and that is the name on the whois record, but I don’t know who that is, or if that is fake as well.
I suppose the argument for it being a spoof is that it’s so obviously made up that no one would believe it. If that’s the case, he failed. The University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences has been receiving phone calls about the site today.
and if it is a spoof…what’s the purpose? just to create havoc? weird indeed.
Hi, I´m a PhD-student at Göteborg University. I´ve searched the university homepage (www.gu.se) and I find no traces whatsoever of any “Arne FR Jansson” or any “Department of Atmospheric Physics”. There is a “Atmospheric Science” reseach group (which I´m at) but nothing else. This is complete bogus.
So far, nobody seems to be sure, but it seems quite reminiscent of one my all-time favorite articles, which actually did get published in a real journal, i.e., Alan Sokal’s delicious
“Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”.
Unfortunately, exposed a little too early.
Dr. Roy W. Spencer has the goods:
‘An anonymous Brit has now admitted in a brief interview that he wrote the fake global warming research paper which is claimed to have fooled some of us “global warming skeptics”. His stated purpose was to “expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of many of the people who call themselves climate sceptics”.
‘I would argue that he has done just the opposite.
‘Several of us (scientists and non-scientists alike) were able, within a matter of seconds to minutes, to identify the paper as a fake. We then spread the word, warning others of the hoax. Therefore, we showed that we do not, as the hoaxer claims, “believe almost anything if it lends support to their position”. We did exactly the opposite.’
http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm
The study was introduced and debunked during the same Rush Limbaugh broadcast - I was listening at the time. Spencer mentions this in the linked article. This attempt at channeling Sokol isn’t working.
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The Fact is that gobal warming is fake.