A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW

In 2007 Rush Limbaugh  announced he had  proof positive that Global Warming was a hoax and to prove it read on the air excerpts from a scientific paper published in  The Journal  of  Geoclimatic Studies entitled:

Carbon dioxide  production by  Benthic Bacteria: 
 the death of manmade global warming theory?

Wowed by pages of equations written in Cyrillic spiced with Thai, like:

4δ 161x Λ³ Ж ญ 5,6,1,8Φ-4 = {( Σ Ψ² Њ yt²/3 -14 ๖ P9) x 49}/2β  x ⅜ kxgt-§

the innumerate  polymath pronounced seven pages of  pure gibberish to be  "very convincing"  scientific proof that climate change arises not from people burning fossil fuel, but bacteria rudely burping CO2 on the seabed.

Limbaugh told 20,000,000 listeners that, according to an "expert climatologist here on staff"  the study's revelations about the palaeoclimate of the "Miocene Pliocene & Plasticine periods" proved global warming was a hoax

The next day, Limbaugh's long suffering science guy, University of Alabama climatologist Roy Spencer , posted this memo:

RE: GLOBAL WARMING STUDY HOAX  

Yesterday (11/7/07), a "research study" was circulating on the internet which claimed to have found the "real" reason for global warming. 

Even though... the paper looked genuine ... the authors, research center, and even the scientific journal the study was published in

 did not exist.

I sent an e-mail to Rush about the issue regarding the hoax, with a copy of the "research study." Unfortunately... he thought that I was calling global warming a hoax, rather than the study.

                                                                  --Roy W. Spencer   

The passing of such a free spirit, and great, if sometimes inadvertent American humorist,  is mourned by millions of fans, and understudies including Mark Steyn & Tucker Carlson.

May he rest in a cooler clime than the one he left behind.