In which the pond shares the dog botherer's sheer madness …0

The pond knew what it had been missing, with all this talk of the crisis in Western Civilisation….

A bit of rolled gold, tin foil hat climate science denialism … and who better to deliver it than the dog botherer, with his impeccable scientific credentials.

Many have been silenced by the dog botherer's epic field work and his extraordinary list of peer-reviewed publications in respected scientific journals, up there with Moorice …

The pond has always been something of a simpleton, mistakenly trusting the word of actual scientists … you know, like the recent news reported at WaPo …

A landmark study published last week in the journal Nature combined the work of 80 scientists from 42 institutions, including NASA, and found that, since 1992, Antarctica has lost nearly 3 trillion tons of ice, enough to raise sea levels by a little less than a centimeter. Forty percent of that ice loss occurred in the past five years. The ice-loss rate is now triple what it was a decade ago. One should guard against assuming that trends will continue as they have in the immediate past. But there is more reason to fear that ice loss will worsen rather than abate. East Antarctica, once gaining mass, now appears to be losing it. And scientists warn of instability in major West Antarctic ice formations that could lead to catastrophic ice loss.

But all this water off a duck's back, much like ice off a continent, to the intrepid dog botherer … and sure enough the loons heard his siren song, and flocked to him with graphs …

Oh yes, that graph's been doing the denialist rounds in recent times, and tweeter's a a real goer, and something of a rocket scientist too ...

And so to the science …

Nothing to see here, of course, just the usual litany, because incessant repetition is what the dog botherer does best … mindless, incessant repetition ...

Actually Finkel immortally advised Malcolm Roberts that you didn't have to be so open-minded in science as to let your brain leak out, but this possibly might not apply to the dog botherer, because there's a question about the capacity of jelly fish and other blobs to think …

And actually Finkel delivered a review, which, because he took climate science seriously, suggested a model which made coal an outsider, as reported in the Graudian way back in 2017 here…

But when you're a crazed fanatic of the dog botherer denialist kind, none of this matters, and there's no point arguing the toss ...

It's just more of the same really, fuck the world, because who cares, provided I'm alright Jack …

The pond just wishes in the Doonesbury style, that the dog botherer was a little bit more honest about his motives …