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Thu, 2007-09-13 10:45Richard Littlemore
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Medieval Paintings Explode Global Warming Myth!

Climate science - and perhaps the definition of science itself - is in for an update, thanks to the tireless work of tobacco and oil industry apologist [1], Dr. S. Fred Singer [2].

Singer and his current writing buddy, Hudson Institute [3] Senior Fellow Dennis Avery [4], have discovered an artful argument to prove that we don't have to worry about climate change. Specifically, they found "t [5] housands of museum paintings that portrayed sunnier skies during the Medieval Warming and more cloudiness during the Little Ice Age [5] ."

Well, no wonder everyone is so nostalgic about Medieval times: the weather was better. Or, at the very least, the painters were more cheerful.

Faithful DeSmog readers will know from previous posts [1] that Singer is happy to tell the most flagrant and easily disputed lies on behalf of his oily clients. Here's a man who denied an oil-industry connection even while Exxon was citing him as a funding recipient on its own website [6]. We also know that Exxon has funded the Hudson institute and that Avery has (coincidentally?) shifted his preoccupation from misrepresenting the cuddly nature of pesticides [7] to propagating doubt about climate change.

We know that ever since the Oregon Petition [8], these clowns have been rustling up bogus lists of "scientists" who dispute the science behind climate change.

What we don't know - what is, indeed, unknowable - is whether either Singer or Avery will ever develop a conscience, or even a passing sense of embarrassment.

As when waiting for North American governments to start taking this issue seriously, we live in hope.

 

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Links:
[1] http://www.desmogblog.com/no-apology-is-owed-dr-s-fred-singer-and-none-will-be-forthcoming
[2] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=S._Fred_Singer
[3] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute
[4] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dennis_Avery
[5] http://hudson.org/files/pdf_upload/9-07%20Avery%20Global%20Warming.pdf
[6] http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6143&method=full
[7] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trashing_organic_foods
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition
[9] http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/hudson-institute
[10] http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/dennis-avery
[11] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/637
[12] http://www.desmogblog.com/medieval-paintings-explode-global-warming-myth