Global warming? Nah, the glaciers are growing!

[Il_Mostro]

Or are they?

This is an interesting piece, showing what kind of ignorance we are fighting against.

Plus it's funny, in a very saddening way.
Junk Science, Monbiot

[Zeno]

From the article:

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Is Felix a climatologist, a vulcanologist, or an oceanographer? Er, none of the above. His biography describes him as a “former architect”.(6) His website is so bonkers that I thought at first it was a spoof. Sadly, he appears to believe what he says. But there indeed was all the material Bellamy cited in his letter, including the figures – or something resembling the figures – he quoted. “Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich.”(7) The source, which Bellamy also cited in his email to me, was given as “the latest issue of 21st Century Science and Technology”.



21st Century Science and Technology? It sounds impressive, until you discover that it is published by Lyndon Larouche. Lyndon Larouche is the American demagogue who in 1989 received a 15-year sentence for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax code violations.(8) He has claimed that the British royal family is running an international drugs syndicate,(9) that Henry Kissinger is a communist agent,(10) that the British government is controlled by Jewish bankers,(11) and that modern science is a conspiracy against human potential.(12)




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Good article. Shows the details that one must go into sometimes to expose these frauds. And more and more of them will pop up given the ease of getting misinformation out and about on the web etc. But the basic MO of these charlatans has remained much the same for centuries.

-Zeno