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In this deleriously funny send-up [7] of the work of Chrisopher Walter (the Third Viscount Monckton [8]of Brenchley), writer Gareth Renowden (Hot Topic: Global Warming and the Future of New Zealand [9]) renders a readable parable even while humiliating Monckton for his incompetence and/or his dishonesty.

Renowden has discovered an unsourceable graph in Monckton’s latest paper for the Exxon-sponsored Science and Public Policy Institute [10]. Said graph (which Monckton incorrectly attributes to Curry and Clow 1977) appears to be an inventively modified version of a work published by Cuffey and Clow in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 1977.

Thanks to Ian Forrester and to Tim Lambert at Deltoid [11] for turning this up.

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[1] http://www.desmogblog.com/bio/richard-littlemore
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[4] http://www.desmogblog.com/print/3663
[5] http://www.desmogblog.com/printmail/3663
[6] http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/blogimages/Monckton graph.jpg
[7] http://hot-topic.co.nz/monckton-the-case-of-the-missing-curry/
[8] http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/global_warming/monckton/
[9] http://hot-topic.co.nz/new-pdf-edition/
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute
[11] http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/01/monckton_the_case_of_the_missi.php
[12] http://www.desmogblog.com/media/award-worthy
[13] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3950
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