Ernst Georg Beck Passes Away

Well known AGW denier Ernst Georg Beck died yesterday after a prolonged bout with cancer; the link is to an obituary in German (though there is a "translate" button). Given the occasion, I will refrain from mean-spirited remarks, but Mr. Beck's "studies" of CO2 concentrations were dealt with quite harshly here and, by myself, here.

The scientific value of his work on this topic was negligible.

The Great Math Swindle!

Climate Change denier Ernst Beck is best known for producing the graph of historical CO2 levels shown above, which he has used to (yet again) totally disprove the AGW thesis. The graph shows:

...that there were huge fluctuations in CO2 that ended by some strange coincidence exactly when they started making more accurate measurements.

Therefore, sucks to the warmist crown.

Even more radically, the same techniques that Beck developed have been applied to the field of mathematics, and the results have been shocking. Here's the data set to which inestimable science guy Theo applied his technique, and here is what he found:
Yes! You're reading that right! The value of π (Pi) has fluctuated wildly over the past millenia! Which begs the question: is all of mathematics in the same boat? Maybe I didn't stink at numbers in highschool! Maybe their values were shifting even between the moment I wrote down my answers and the moment my teacher, that Jerk Mr. Glasscock, marked them!

Obviously, he had been taken in by The Great Math Swindle. And I suspect this hoax about mathematics being the exploration of unchanging, universal truthes was perpetrated by a bunch of goddamn Mathematical Platonists, with all the nonsense they write about eternal Forms floating out there in airy fairy la la land.

In fact, I suspect that James Hansen and the whole warmist crew are a bunch of goddamn Climate Platonists! Get with the program, dudes, climate is always changing!