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Amongst that fabled 97% of scientists we are tirelessly told know man-made global warming to be a locked-down, iron-tight fact, Stephan Lewandowsky looms large. Admittedly, he is no better than a behavioural psychologist, but “science” is a broad and generous descriptor when filling in grant applications or billing the taxpayer for the latest jet-fuelled jaunt to the next symposium on humanity’s slow-baked extermination. It was the University of Western Australia academic’s cobber, John Cook, who whipped up the, ahem, “scientific survey” that purported to demonstrate overwhelming scientific support for the notion that slight increases in a beneficial trace gas represent a dire threat, making it a matter of urgency for governments to sink billions of other people’s money into wind generators, tidal power stations and geothermal frackers (like Tim Flannery’s Geodynamics, which did very nicely while those cheques from Canberra kept coming.)
Lewandowsky has capered lustily in this parade of folly, regularly drawing attention to himself with stunning surveys that variously concluded your typical “denier” is apt to think the moon landings were faked and UFOs driven by extraterrestrials. In other words, if you have noticed that the 18-year plateau in global temperatures is the precise opposite of what the warmists insisted would happen, you’re the nut, not Lewandowsky & Co.
Be that as it may, even the most wooden-headed nut knows that a 32,575-year-old woman would be most unlikely to spend her extended twilight filling in surveys. Yet, as Jo Nova reports, just such an ancient specimen is listed as one of the participants, along with a five-year-old and sundry spotty teens, in one of Lewandowsky’s celebrations of what he takes to be the scientific method. Worth noting is that one in four participants were scratched from the final sample, yet the 32,575-year-old woman’s input was included. Perhaps she votes for the Greens.
The science is settled, as they say. Yes, settled indeed, much as the more noxious sludge accumulates at the bottom of a septic tank.
(Thanks to cartoonist Tim Sheppard, whose artwork graces a WUWT post on the latest Lewandowsky absurdity. The comments thread is well worth absorbing.)
