^ Please insert : “..and warped imperviousness to reason and evidence between “..the illogical passion .. “and “..of the pseudo-scientific, ideologically-motivated crankhood.”

Denialist bat signal?

IOW, this thread esp. has come to the attention of a bunch of Climate Reality Deniers who are focused on this issue with all the illogical passion of the pseudo-scientific and ideologically motivated crankhood.

It could be an interesting and revealing exercise comparing the Denier commenters on this thread here with the usual “regulars” here who comment on non-Global Overheating threads or seeing what other topics and comments the Deniers here have commented on on this blog.

Argh … where’s the edit button? Make that:

Why is the simple concept that Soon should be fired for being ” a crappy researcher and an embarrassment” but Soon should not be fired “for his apparent violation of ethics” beyond the mental capabilities of deniers?

“So which of your statements is wrong?
The 2:15 or the 8:11?

Enquiring minds want to know.”

Why is the simple concept that Soon should be fired for being ” a crappy researcher and an embarrassment” but Soon should not be fire incompetent but not “for his apparent violation of ethics” beyond the mental capabilities of deniers?

Of course, if we turn it around and observe that those who lack such basic mental capabilities tend to be deniers, we have the answer.

You’re blatantly quoting out of context, David. That’s dishonest and vile. It’s also silly, since anyone can search the comments and see Greg’s qualifiers.

Reading comprehension failure. “the few decades” are not “millenia”. The “climate change we’ve been observing over the last few decades” is not typical. And the sun is not generally responsible for climate change, even over the millenia … your “move” is a fallacy.

Dr. Soon is vigorously lying.

“Plotting to have someone fired because you don’t like his research”

And so are you.

Bill is apparently incapable of reading.

Renelli, I have not gone out of my way to suggest that Soon’s research in question. His research is horrible. But, if you knew how to read 🙂 you would see that the specific issue at hand is his seemingly unethical behavior in not disclosing his funding, which, simply, you are supposed to to.