Is Greenhouse a Misnomer?
[Vaughan Pratt responds to yet another ringtone by Girma.]
Only to the extent that 1909 was a terrible year for noted physcist Robert W. Wood, whose career peaked in 1904 when he shot down Prosper-René Blondlot’s N-ray theory. Every paper Wood wrote in 1909 was shot down in the same year by one or another physicist. Yet 70 years later people started quoting Wood’s February 1909 paper in Phil Mag while ignoring the follow-up papers from the same year in the same journal shooting him down.
For those into this sort of thing, it’s a great object lesson in how to turn the failures of physics into the successes of politics by quoting scientific rubbish from a by-gone era while ignoring its refutations from the same era, in this case even the same year.
The climate blogosphere is full of this sort of rubbish. Wading through it is like wading through the La Brea Tar Pits: historically fascinating, but not a history you want to become part of.
(Source: judithcurry.com)
