She Called Me the Fraudster

I signed the list back in 2019 because I suspected they were just fishing for big numbers, like the bogus "97% of all scientists agree global warming is caused by man" claim. Once they had achieved a nice fat number, they would call a press conference, and the so-called "journalists" from all the mainstream Junk News outlets would gobble it all up and splash their headlines far and wide. And that is, of course, exactly what they did. Only this time, a few people were paying attention.

They should have, would have just kept the discovery of the jokester names quiet, but Ezra Levant beat them to the punch and the cat was out of the bag.

I woke up one November morning and checked Facebook. I had a deluge of notifications. "You're famous!" some of them said. When I checked my voicemail, a reporter from the Hamilton Spectator had left a message asking me to confirm whether I was the one who signed the bogus scientists list. I had already learned my lesson about talking to Junk News reporters. If you're not on board with the class of citizens holding "acceptable views," they will dishonestly twist your words and cleverly omit certain points with the aim of discrediting you. It is an invaluable experience because it gives you insight into how dishonest the Junk News industry really is.

I sent the reporter an email, explaining that I would be happy to answer his questions, but I insisted he use email so that I would have a record of exactly what was said. That way, I could expose them for the Junk News purveyors they are in my own blog,s and online posts if they pulled any monkey business.

I guess he passed the job on to Joanna Frketich.

That is a funny segment. She calls me a fraudster. Meanwhile, as Ezra Levant humorously shows in this next video, the list was heavily populated with fraudsters.

If Ms. Frketich were being honest here, she would have highlighted the true fraudsters. But she is not being honest. What she does here is label those who obviously see through the #ClimateScam and signed the list as a joke, or to see whether the list custodians were vigilant about the legitimacy of the "scientists" who signed that list, as fraudsters. But for anyone else, it was, "Come on down! Sign on the dotted line. Congratulations! You are a climate scientist."

As it turned out, they were not vigilant. They simply defined those who do not support the climate hoax as fraudsters, while anyone who promotes fraud are considered to be true scientists.

This is, of course, bullshit.

Read the archived Spectator article.

Retired Hamilton cabbie gets himself on list of fake scientists declaring climate emergency

Note:

"Newbold said some on the list may not appear to have expertise in climate change, but he cautions that scientists from a wide-variety of fields see and study the effects.

"Social scientists are also very much involved in climate change discussion because of the impact of climate change on our society," said Newbold. "It's not necessarily the scientist that's working in a lab and doing that environmental work, but they could be doing work about how populations are going to need to adjust or respond to climate change.""

"Social scientists are also very much involved in climate change discussion because of the impact of climate change on our society." Right. Well, if that's true, taxi drivers, janitors, waitresses, carpenters, and factory workers would all have the right to sign that list because they CAN ALL CLAIM to have knowledge of "the impact of climate change on our society." In other words, anyone in the world who doesn't sign it as a joke.

And,

"The final two signatories from McMaster are working scientists. Sebastian Irazuzta is a an environmental biologist and PhD candidate. Daniel Traylor is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of kinesiology."

So, according to Bruce Newbold, who is on the advisory board of the McMaster University Centre for Climate Change, kinesiologists can sign the list because of the impact of climate change on, ... on what? Sports injuries?

So, if a kinesiologist can sign that list, so can a fucking taxi driver.