Traffic to the blog just spiked unexpectedly.
Traced it back to someone linking to one of my University of Turku posts in the comments section of a climate change denier’s blog. I’m not going to link to it, but it’s run by an Australian called Joanne Nova.
The University of Turku posts were my attempt to contact two Finnish scientists—Jyrki and Pekka—who had put out a preprint suggesting global warming was not man-made. I was looking to see if they had some murky fossil fuels funding in the background.
Both they and the University of Turku public relations office denied it.
Plenty of murky oil slick floating around Joanne Nova though. As stated here:
“She downplays the funding she and other denialists receive from the Heartland Institute and the Science and Public Policy Institute.”
If you want to know what if feels like to lick a toilet bowl without actually doing it, read here about the Heartland Institute or the Science and Public Policy Institute.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Perhaps the Science and Public Policy Institute’s greatest moment here:
“…a report in which they claim that sea levels have not risen, their evidence being a graph showing sea level rise, but tilted such that the long-term trend is flat. Yes, really”.
This is amazing.