TheAnthropocene era's arrival didn't register on Rush Limbaugh's cultural radar, but in 2007 he told his vast audience listeners that a scientific paper filled with equations he found "very convincing",
for example , proved fossil fuels don't cause global warming, the real cause being CO2 burping "benthic bacteria."
Citing his "expert climatologist here on staff" Limbaugh said the study's revelations about "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine "
palaeoclimate proved Anthropogenic Global Warming was a " hoax. "
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for example , proved fossil fuels don't cause global warming, the real cause being CO2 burping "benthic bacteria." Citing his "expert climatologist here on staff" Limbaugh said the study's revelations about "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine "
palaeoclimate proved Anthropogenic Global Warming was a " hoax. "
The reality of course was that the paper was a Sokalesque joke played on climate deniers by climate scientists unknown: there is no such publication as The Journal Of Geoclimatic Studies.
Days later, Christopher Booker blamed climate forcing on "Burping Bacteria" in his London Telegraph column, but , ars longa vita brevis, the recent demise of the much mourned climate skeptic, Spectator jazz critic and Private Eye founder has triggered a Nature cartoon echoing Limbaughs epic gaffe.
I have taking the liberty of adding to the Nature cartoon the new era and a little extra plasticine for moral support.
I have taking the liberty of adding to the Nature cartoon the new era and a little extra plasticine for moral support.
