I LOVE that SunsetTommy (now a WUWT parrot) TRIED to make term of the debate that you can't criticize the source.
A Source whose name is even a Pseudonym/in question!
Steven Goddard (Tony Heller)
Credentials
- Masters in Electrical Engineering – Rice University. [1], [2]
- BS Geology – ASU. [1], [2]
Background
Steven Goddard is a climate science denier, regular contributor to WattsUpWithThat (WUWT), and operator of ”The Deplorable Climate Science Blog.” The name “Steven Goddard” is a pseudonym used by Tony Heller, which he confirmed himself in June 2014. [3],
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Tony Heller describes himself as “an independent thinker who is considered a heretic by the orthodoxy on both sides of the climate debate.” He has degrees in Geology and Electrical Engineering, and lives in Columbia, Maryland. He describes global warming as the “biggest scientific fraud in history.”
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Steven Goddard is known for a 2008 article in The Register where he posited that Arctic Sea ice is not receding and claimed that data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) showing the opposite was incorrect. Goddard later issued a retraction on his statement. [5],
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Goddard operates a blog titled “Real Science”, originally located at
Real-Science.com, then at
Stevengoddard.wordpress.com (
until May, 2016), and now at
Realclimatescience.com.
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Stance on Climate Change
“Make no mistake about it, global warming is the biggest scientific fraud in history.”
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“Global warming is indeed Mann-made, by Michael Mann and James Hansen. But it has nothing to do with climate or science.”
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“”The 97% consensus quoted daily by Barack Obama is based on a few fraudulent studies of a handful of published papers.”
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“There is no global warming crisis. There is a crisis of the White House having government agencies manipulate data, in pursuit of their global warming agenda. There is also a crisis of the White House attacking the Bill of Rights in pursuit of their global warming agenda.”
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Key Quotes
February 24, 2017
Tony Heller moderated a discussion panel sponsored by the
CO2 Coalition at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). After
Craig Idso finished his talk, Heller noted:
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“My takeaway from that [Craig Idso’s talk] is that efforts to reduce CO2 are not only anti-science, but they’re anti-human.”
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July, 2016
“I completely agree with Fred [Singer] that there probably has been little or no warming since the 1940s.”
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August, 2008
“The Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally, some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss.”
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Undated
“Nothing about climate science reeks more of confirmation bias, than the changes scientists make to their own data sets over time. They all show exactly the same pattern of monotonically cooling the past and warming the present, regardless of the instrumentation.”
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“Climate fraudsters say that glaciers melting is an ‘early sign of global warming.’ They are lying. Glaciers have been melting for a very long time, and were melting during NASA’s claimed coldest years ever.”
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“”In summary, the NASA global and US temperature records are neither accurate, nor credible representations of reality.”
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“The claimed agreement in temperature data is simply not legitimate. The people involved know that their data is inadequate, tampered and largely made up. […] The reason that the data sets agree is due to collusion, not independent research as they claim. It is the biggest scientific fraud in history.”
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“NASA scientists have a strong conflict of interest in that they expect to see warming, and they the more alarm they create, the more money they obtain. This is why climate scientists have no business touching the temperature data. They have no training in signal processing and they have shown repeatedly that they will alter data to suit their needs.”
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“NASA shows 3.24 mm/year sea level rise on their web site. They call it ‘Facts’ – when in fact it is blatant fraud.”
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“In 1927, CO2 levels were very low. An endless series of disasters struck the world, and glaciers were rapidly melting. What we can conclude from all this is:
- The climate was not better at lower levels of CO2
- The climate would not get better if we reduced CO2 levels
- The NASA temperature record is complete garbage” [19]
Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection
Tony Heller (@Tony_Heller on Twitter) was
among dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.
Heller also uploaded a video in which a participant in the failed Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection claims that antifa had infiltrated the mob:
In another video, a person identified as “Katherine” says “All of us were fairly peaceful. There were a couple undercover ANTIFA that were in the group. They were disguised. Some of them had red bandanas but most of them were wearing like Trump hats either backwards or like loosely fitted in order to kind of like stand themselves out”:
In that video, a person identified as “Katherine” says “All of us were fairly peaceful. There were a couple undercover ANTIFA that were in the group. They were disguised. Some of them had red bandanas but most of them were wearing like Trump hats either backwards or like loosely fitted in order to kind of like stand themselves out.”
The Washington Post reported on Jan. 7, 2021, in response to similar claims, “In fact, many of the Trump supporters
who stormed into the Capitol openly boasted about their participation,
live-streaming as they forced their way past police and bashed the building’s doors and windows.”
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The following is from a video Tony Heller released titled “
Insurgents In The Capital [sic]”:
[00:08:51] Whatever was going on there doesn’t really look like a plot by the president of the United States to overthrow his own government. The way this has been portrayed by the press seems to have little to do with reality. I don’t know what happened there that day, but it looks a lot more like a coup to overthrow the president of the United States than the other way around. [00:09:10]
@Tony_Heller posted the following on Jan. 7, 2021 and on Jan. 11, 2021:
Key Deeds
June 2019
Heller
posted a video claiming to have discovered “data tampering” by NOAA/NASA regarding the climate tipping point.
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“They’ve quadrupled warming mainly by cooling past temperatures and warming present temperatures,” Heller claimed in the video. “When you’re willing to manipulate data you can show any result you want, and they wanted to show warming,” He concluded.
Heller’s claims were featured in an
article at The New American, which introduces Heller as a “scientist.”
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March 5, 2018
Heller posed for a photo with
Chris Horner,
Marc Morano, and
Steve Milloy of
Junk Science at what appeared to be an event promoting Morano’s new book,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, by Regnery Publishing. Horner had written the
first version of the book in 2007.
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Heller described them as the “
The Washington DC global warming scam demolition team.” He also tweeted the image:
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2017
Tony Heller is listed as a contributor to the upcoming release of
Climate Change: The Facts 2017, a book released by the
Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) and edited by
Jennifer Marohasy. While investigating the authors,
DeSmog noted that one of the IPA‘s listed “leading experts” involved in the book is New Zealand’s Ken Ring, who in addition to being a described “long range weather forecaster” has written “two, possibly three, books about cats” including
Pawmistry: How to Read Your Cat’s Paws in 1998.
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According to the book description:
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“
Climate Change: The Facts 2017 brings together contributions on the latest climate science from some of the world’s leading experts in the field including John Abbot,
Sallie Baliunas,
Paul Driessen, Tony Heller,
Craig Idso,
Clive James,
Pat Michaels,
Jo Nova,
Ian Plimer, Tom Quirk, Peter Ridd, Ken Ring,
Nicola Scafetta,
Willie Soon,
Roy Spencer, and
Anthony Watts.
There are also essays by
Matt Ridley, and
Bjørn Lomborg on the economics of climate change, and by Simon Breheny on how the freedom to discuss climate change science is under threat.”
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Prior versions of the book featured contributions from a range of prominent climate change deniers, and describes mainstream climate change research as “
pseudo-science.”
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August 23, 2017
Writing at The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, Heller claimed that, since 1990, “The measured NOAA data shows no warming.” “The data is simply fake,” he said. [44]
Apart from himself, Heller does NOT CITE ANY EXTERNAL SOURCES to explain how he reached his conclusion. However, he signs off with a final statement that “This is the biggest and most cynical scam in science history.” [44]
Writing at
Breitbart, James Delingpole shared Goddard’s graph, echoing his sentiment that “All of recent U.S. warming has been faked by NOAA.” .....
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