Mining Executive and blogger Steve McIntyre, the darling of so many climate change deniers, surely disapointed the assembled ICCC crowd in Chicago with his dry and relatively reasonable keynote address.ย The applause after McIntyreโs keynote address was significantly less than when he started because he didnโt call for Michael Mann and Phil Jones to go toย jail.
Astronaut Harrison Schmidt (why is a former astronaut speaking at a climate conference?), who followed McIntyre, helped to steer the crowd back to the witch-hunt it was promised by conference organizers. Mark Sheppard, writing in the American Thinker, gave this account of Schmidtโs remark after McIntyreย finished:
This is science, [Schmidt] retorted to a now cheering crowd, and if you want to play that game (tricks, non-disclosure, etc) then you can go somewhere else.ย To which more than a few in attendance added:ย โTo Jail!โ
I can think of no better analogy than the hilarious logic used by Monty Pythonโs King Arthur to impress an even more idiotic group of villagers, and magnificently prove that โsheโs a witch!โ.
McIntyreโs hour long keynote on the first night of the conference discussed the history of some rather dry tree ring data discussed in the East Anglia stolen email.ย He was welcomed with huge applause, but the crowd cooled over the course of this talk.ย As Sheppard said, โSteve stopped quite a bit short of passing judgmentโ. While McIntyre still perpetuated the myth that there is a scandal wrapped up in the emails stolen from East Anglia, this episode shows how the ravings of climate deniers hold no basis inย reality.
Sheppard wasnโt too happy to hear McIntyreโs opinion on the recent attempts by VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to leverage himself into Michael Mannโs private emailย exchanges.
McIntyre even slammed Virginia Attorney General Ken Ken Cuccinelliโs investigation into Hockey Stick creator Michael Mann, describing Mannโs work as โdiligently publishedโ and Cussinelliโs as โabuse of administrative prerogative.โย Not exactly what the crowd was hoping to hear from one its undeniable heroes.
Thank you, Steve McIntyre for this valuable insight into the level of discourse at the 4th annual denial-palooza, sponsored by all the oil companiesโ favorite thinkย tanks.
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