Some Things Require No Translation

This accusation of climate science malfeasance comes from here---the Moscow Based Institute for Economic Analysis (IEA), led by this Russian Libertarian and senior fellow at the CATO Institute. Though the site is in Russian, note the banner links down the left side of the page: Fraser Institute, Cato Institute, Hayek Institute, Freedom House. That's how you know its all crap.

More by Mr. Lambert.

At Least THIS Guy Isn't Subject To Uncontrollable Erections

John Mashey is the "Buckets" of the Climate Science end of the blogosphere, and he's been going through the Cato Institute's latest list of Climate Change deniers to root out the unknown loonies from the more familiar loonies that tend to appear on such lists on a weekly basis.

Among other things, he's found a Creationist:

Edward Blick, PhD, retired professor at U of Oklahoma (aerospace, mechanical, nuclear) who also has published books including:Scientific Analysis of Genesis (1991), and Correlation of the Bible and Science (1976) and Special Creation Vs. Evolution (1981).

Excellent work, John, though not quite on the level of Eli's research into James DeMeo who, when he is not saving the nation from drought by draining Orgone from the atmosphere, may be getting it on solo style while crouched inside one of Wilhem Reich's "sex boxes".

Orgone Petition

The Cato institute has produced its latest list of over 100 "prominent climate scientists" contesting the theory of AGW. For the most part, it is the same old same old: retired weathermen, and experts from unrelated fields that "went emeritus" two decades ago. However, the good Eli from Rabbett Run has uncovered a particularly nutty nutter among the bunch: James DeMeo, Ph.D, University Of Kansas (retired).

DeMeo has been investigating the work of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich since 1970, and founded OBRL in 1978. With cooperative assistance from a network of professionals and institutes supportive of Wilhelm Reich's original discoveries, OBRL has grown to become one of the world's primary centers for genuine and uncompromised research and educational programs focused upon Orgonomy, the science of orgone (life) energy functions in nature, as developed by Reich in the first half of the 20th Century.

This doesn't quite give you the flavour of Reich's (and therefore DeMeo's) nuttiness, however. From his wiki page:

In 1940, Reich built boxes called orgone accumulators to concentrate atmospheric orgone energy; some were for lab animals, and some were large enough for a human being to sit inside. Reich said orgone was the “primordial cosmic energy”, blue in color, which he claimed was omnipresent and responsible for such things as weather, the color of the sky, gravity, the formation of galaxies, and the biological expressions of emotion and sexuality. Composed of alternating layers of ferrous metals and organic insulators with a high dielectric constant, his orgone accumulators had the appearance of a large, hollow capacitor. It was the construction of these boxes that caught the attention of the press, leading to wild rumors that they were “sex boxes” which caused uncontrollable erections.[22] Based on experiments with the orgone accumulator, he argued that orgone energy was a negatively-entropic force in nature which was responsible for concentrating and organizing matter.

Not sure how much time Mr. DeMeo has spent crouched inside his accumulator, but he claims to have employed one of Mr. Reich's other contraptions, a "cloudbuster", designed to drain clouds of their orgone, to successfully end droughts "across the USA and overseas as well". Hence his interest in AGW, I would assume.

PS. My knowledge of Reich actually predates Wiki, by the way. Saul Bellow was a huge Reich fan, and I was forced to study Bellow for a whole term many years ago.

Coming Soon From A Bunch Of Climate Change Deniers Near You

Today, Dr. Patrick Michaels of The CATO Institute (see http://www.cato. org/people/ patrick-michaels) called me to ask if I could distribute the attached proposed newspaper ad to you in the hopes of obtaining your endorsement for inclusion in a list after the letter. Dr. Michael tells me the text of the open letter is essentially fixed and only cosmetic changes will follow at this point.

Please let me know if you will allow CATO to include your name and affiliation on this crucially important public appeal to President Obama. Dr. Michaels informs me that, due to space-limitations it may not be feasible to include everyone’s endorsement but he hopes to get as many supporters as possible for this effort, regardless.

If they get a sufficient number of highly qualified endorsers, CATO plan to arrange that the attached open letter is published in newspapers this coming week, so we hope to hear whether or not you will allow your name to be included in the endorser list as soon as possible. Feel free to either contact Dr. Michaels directly at pmichaels@cato. org or simply respond to this e-mail and I will forward endorsers’ names, with complete affiliations, to him.

Hope to hear from you very soon!

Tom HarrisExecutive DirectorInternational Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
P.O. Box 23013
Ottawa, Ontario
K2A 4E2
Canada

I plan to have Galactus sign, and also my buddy Dr. Franz Von Dickenstein.