Last week, when we mocked WWUT, the climate website most-read-by-people-with-stupid-toolbars, for potentially finding new life in indulging in a little light misogyny, we noted that it’d been a while since any new big denier science stories broke on the blog.
A couple days after our post, Tim Ball dropped by WUWT and announced that in light of his “overall failure” to convince the public that scientists are lying about climate change, he’s going to try a new tactic: being even crazier! (And attacking the motives of the supposed conspirators.)
In the good Dr. Ball’s words, one of the “major” reasons the skeptical community “achieved little impact” is because of “the division of that community into approximately 15% who are competent and comfortable in science and 85% who are not.” (Only 85%?) Ball concedes that because the “firmly established false fact” of human-caused climate change has become so widespread, coming out as a skeptic engenders a “strong hostile reaction... In many cases, they become ostracized in their family.” (Our condolences to the many families felled by Fox News.)
Specifically, Ball points to the growth of local policies, and singles out last year’s Global Climate Action Summit as evidence of how the climate lie has successfully percolated to the municipal level.
But Ball blames this mainstream acceptance of climate change not on those in the denier community who have no scientific backing, but on those like himself that have focused on the so-called science of denial.
Ball concludes his rambling and disjointed admission of failure by declaring he will now focus his efforts on “providing a credible motive” for why thousands of independent climate scientists would perpetrate a centuries-long hoax, which is that scientists are only raising climate concerns because they’re secretly communists bent on world domination.
Literally, Ball writes that the IPCC “was designed and implemented at the national level through every weather office in nations throughout the world.” Participation in the IPCC apparently “puts the idea and control of those countries almost completely in the hands of the deep state.”
You read that right. Apparently the lesson Ball has learned from failing to convince the scientifically literate community of his position is that it makes more sense to invoke conspiracy theories to appeal to that other 85% of the community who he labels as scientifically incompetent.
As we all know, what’s keeping deniers from being taken seriously by the scientific community and their families alike is definitely that they don’t spend enough time talking about how men in white lab coats concocted the climate hoax because they seek fame and fortune in the service of a unified global government and communist New World Order.