Facts Are Optional When Fact-Checkers Judge Candidates On Climate

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Investors Business Daily:

The Associated Press asked eight climate and biological scientists to fact-check the presidential candidates on their statements and tweets about global warming. The results were predictable: The Democrats did well, the Republicans fared poorly.

 

The list of scientists enlisted by the AP included not one of the numerous identifiable skeptics. There was no Richard Lindzen, no Roy Spencer, no Fred Singer, no Judith Curry, to name but a few of many.

 

In fact, the only name among the group that might be known outside in the academy is Michael Mann, inventor of the hockey stick graph that has been the source of great controversy. Mann's graph supposedly shows that global temperatures have soared in our industrial age after moving sideways for centuries. But there is no shortage of scientists, researchers and academics who doubt its accuracy. Some even say it's a fraud and include Mann among "Big Climate's Sleazy Charlatan(s) " who are a "disgrace to the profession."

 

Mann has defended his hockey stick to the point of suing columnist Mark Steyn because Steyn had the audacity to call the graph a fraud — so we know how he's going to find the "facts" in this exercise.