Journal of Geoclimatic Studies

Climate skeptics like to use the word "hoax" when they want to dismiss the science behind global warming. Wouldn't it be great to create a fictional study group with fictional scientists and fictional findings that go against global warming science and watch the skeptics get all hot for it? Well someone did just THAT! haha! Skeptics jumped on the spoof study like mad, cause the study claimed that ocean bacteria, not humans, create global warming! The apparent author of the fake study was interviewed and said:

Q: Why did you decide to construct the fake website? Was it purely a joke or did you set out to make people taking your paper at face value look foolish?

A: Its purpose was to expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of many of the people who call themselves climate sceptics. While dismissive of the work of the great majority of climate scientists, they will believe almost anything if it lends support to their position. Their approach to climate science is the opposite of scepticism.

Q: Are you surprised at the pick up your coverage has generated?

A: Not really. Equally ridiculous claims - like those in the paper attached to the "Oregon Petition" or David Bellamy's dodgy glacier figures - have been widely circulated and taken up by the ‘sceptic’ community. But you can explain this until you are blue in the face. To get people to sit up and listen, you have to demonstrate it. This is what I set out to do.

Even lardass Rush Limbaugh fell for the hoax. Must have been off the drugs or something. Just shows you skeptics are nothing more than propogandists looking for anything to push their agenda - and that they truly don't understand a goddamn thing.

Check DeSmogBlog for a funny acount of those that created the hoax and the assholes who fell for it.

Update: Michael "Weiner" Savage fell for it too. hahaha!