Remember the other day when we talked about Delingpole's "Forget Climategate" article, which promoted the laughable conspiracy theory that scientists are deliberately skewing the temperature record? Or back in August, when deniers got some coverage for their paranoid delusions that Australia's Bureau of Meteorology made up national temperature records? Or in June of last year, when the Telegraph went gaga for Goddard, accusing NOAA of temperature exaggeration--a theory which Fox and Drudge also promoted, even though NOAA debunks the claim in its FAQ?
Well, they're still beating that drum. Faithful denier, Christopher Booker, has a column in The Telegraph repeating the same tired claims, which naturally warranted not one, but two write-ups by Delingpole... as well as a headline in the Drudge Report, a post at Fox News, a reference at the Heartland blog, and a shout out from Climate Depot. But the deniers' case is just as bad now as when PolitiFact gave the temperature tampering claim a "Pants on Fire" rating in 2014, or when the claim was debunked back in 2013, or explained in 2012, or when skeptics and a scientist got Koch money in 2011 to look at the temperature record, only to find that the official records were accurate. On a similar note, this most recent 'beating of the drum' has been debunked by none other than denier Steve Mosher, who literally wrote a book pushing the Climategate myth. So even hardcore deniers know this is ridiculous (see this post about Watts for another example, or Curry's blog for an expanded piece by Moser and others.)
But if Booker really wants to keep beating the drum, he might want to find a new angle, given that this most recent piece sounds exactly like another he wrote in June 2014. Both pieces have titles with "fiddling" and "scandal" and start with the exact same three words: "When future generations..."
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