Charlie Daniels of "Devil Went Down to Georgia" fame has an op-ed in the rightwing site cnsnews.com. It's amusing, to say the least.
Daniels opens by saying citing the Bible as his source for evidence against human-caused climate change, which makes sense coming from this Devil-bestin' fiddle maestro. He then trots out the standard denier lines, from the supposed name change from global warming to climate change, to polar bears being just fine, to the temperature record adjustment faux-controversy, to Climategate, to climate change really being about political control.
One odd bit about a mysterious conference shows that Daniels is being fed some of this misinformation from someone else, but his poor English gives away that he still probably wrote the piece all by himself (without the benefit of an editor). About the consensus, he says, "They tell you that it's 'settled science,' knowing full well that two out of three imminent, world class scientists at the recent Mombasa conference disputed the 'settled science.'"
First off Charlie, the word you were looking for is "prominent." "Imminent" means "about to happen." Second off, what Mombasa conference? What aspect of the consensus did scientists dispute? How imminent prominent can these scientists be if they're speaking at a conference that doesn't even show up on Google? And, assuming all this holds water, how can you think that 2 out of 3 speakers at an obscure African conference is a rebuttal to the well-documented 97% consensus among thousands of climate scientists?
The comments, for once, might be worth a read. The best: "I wonder what Dolly Parton has to say about global warming?"
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