Peter Sinclair: Benjamin Santer (Go, Ben!!!) beats the crap out of Patrick Michaels, serial liar before Congress and climate denier for hire (the guy makes over $4 million a year)

Peter Sinclair's Climate Denial Crock of the Week


Patrick Michaels:  "I doubt Irene will even cough up eight bodies..."



If you watched Ben Santer “beat the crap” out of Pat Michaels in congressional hearings last year, (above) you probably won’t be surprised at Michael’s latest ill-considered blurt.
Yahoo and Here:

“A day later, the smart money is still riding a very Gloria-like track, but with a cyclone that will be weaker than projected. It is doubtful that Irene will even cough up eight bodies (the number killed by Gloria), though power outages east of where the center makes landfall (probably on Long Island) may be extensive.”

The original piece was published at Forbes, (recently a Mecca for anti-science blathering) -where apparently someone thought the better of it and has changed the passage to:

A day later, the smart money is still riding a very Gloria-like track, but with a cyclone that will be weaker than projected (and hopefully kill fewer than the eight people who died in Gloria) though power outages east of where the center makes landfall (probably on Long Island) may be extensive.

See more of Michaels in his surprisingly candid presentation to the Heartland conference a few years ago. (Hint: it really has not been “cooling since 1998.")


]http://climatecrocks.com/2011/08/27/pat-michaels-i-doubt-irene-will-even-cough-up-eight-bodies/