Wow, this is just bonkers.
Lewandowsky and Cook would have a field day with this one, except, Dr. Wadhams is on their team (the warmist team) and thus would never think about accusing the good doctor of such psychological aberrations.
It’s a Big Oil conspiracy! The possible murder of three fellow warmists may be connected, says Cambridge University Dr. Peter Wadhams according to this story in the Telegraph:
Professor Peter Wadhams said he feared being labelled a “looney” over his suspicion that the deaths of the scientists were more than just an ‘extraordinary’ coincidence.
But he insisted the trio could have been murdered and hinted that the oil industry or else sinister government forces might be implicated.
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Asked who might have wanted them out the way, he replied: “I can only think of the oil lobby but I don’t think the oil lobby goes around killing people.”
Big Oil must be omnipotent, as the evil oily elite were apparently able to arrange a targeted lightning strike:
The three scientists he identified – Seymour Laxon and Katherine Giles, both climate change scientists at University College London, and Tim Boyd of the Scottish Association for marine Science – all died within the space of a few months in early 2013.
Professor laxon fell down a flight of stairs at a New year’s Eve party at a house in Essex while Dr Giles died when she was in collision with a lorry when cycling to work in London. Dr Boyd is thought to have been struck by lightning while walking in Scotland.
Apparently, it gets worse:
Prof Wadhams added: “I thought if it was somebody assassinating them could it be one of our people doing it and that would be even more frightening. I thought it would be better not to touch this with a barge pole.”
His suspicions drew outrage on Saturday from Prof Laxon’s partner, who was also a close friend of Dr Giles. When told what Prof Wadhams had said, Fiona Strawbridge, head of e-Learning at UCL, replied: “Good god. All of this is completely outrageous and very distressing.”
Why yes, yes it is. And here Lewandowsky and Cook have a peer reviewed paper telling the world that its’s the climate skeptics that are the conspiracy nuts to be feared. I guess they forgot to look within their own peer group.
When you believe stuff like that, it’s easy to believe your own theories of climate catastrophe. Such as Wadhams big Arctic collapse prediction in 2012:
One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years…
Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University calls for “urgent” consideration of new ideas to reduce global temperatures…
“This collapse, I predicted would occur in 2015-16 at which time the summer Arctic (August to September) would become ice-free. The final collapse towards that state is now happening and will probably be complete by those dates”.
Still there:
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Readers may recall we noted Dr. Wadhams forecast was about to be falsified, so he moved the goalposts:
Over the past few years the Arctic expert, Professor Peter Wadhams, has strongly predicted an ‘ice-free’ Arctic no later than 2016. Late this year he changed it to 2020 without apparently giving an explanation.
You can watch his latest set of wacky Wadham predictions below.
NOTE: This post was updated about 30 minutes after publication to include the scan from the Saturday Times, rather that the satirical news channel image featuring professor Wadhams.
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Prof Wadhams has said that that 97% percent of computer models have predicted that all warmist climate scientists will be assassinated by 2020 – so who is laughing now?
Probably still us…..
Warning, I have been drinking.
Sigh, I think Professor Peter Wadhams may be right. First I cannot see any “human” bothering to take out these people. They have better things to do and the governments involved do not see it in their interest.
This leaves only one possibility Divine intervention. No please hear me out.
Think of the Pope”s resent actions. Did the “great Watchmaker” finally decide to intervene? Perhaps. Remember the “G’ guy is all Knowing,all righteous, He is the past, the present, and future. So He saw what was going on and said to himself, hmm I need to rescue these people before they make even greater dunderheads of themselves. So he calls them home, to sit by his right or left toe. Remember time doesn’t matter to the “G” guy. Myself I’m Byzantine Catholic, and though under the Pope, we are Very Byzantine.
Now I think that if Professor Peter Wadhams really believes that someone is out to get pro-AGW people, he should alert His Holiness that it might not be the Oil Companies, but someone none of us want to get playful with. (If the Watchmaker does exist.) And His Holiness should recant.
Now off to the fridge for a beer.
michael
“Climate scientist fears murder by hitman” . . .
With an icicle-dagger ?
… now that’s a chilling thought !
Who else but Big Oil could be “gas”-lighting him?
One was killed by ‘big truck’, one by ‘big fall’ and one by ‘big spark’
The last one is best, he was killed by a lightning strike while on a walk in Scotland. Maybe ‘big oil’ can control the atmosphere after all.
Just off to double up on my tinfoil hat so ‘big oil’ can’t control my mind. Two layers, one with the shiny side pointing in so they can’t read my thoughts. One pointing with it pointing out so they can’t implant them.
[quote]The last one is best, he was killed by a lightning strike while on a walk in Scotland. Maybe ‘big oil’ can control the atmosphere after all.[/quote]
To be fair, the article said [quote]”Dr Boyd is [u]thought[/u] to have been struck by lightning while walking in Scotland.”[/quote]
which either means that they’re speculating or it’s really really bad reporting. I suppose it’s POSSIBLE that he was abducted, zapped to hell in an electric chair or similar, and thrown where-ever he was found. Not likely, but not impossible for big-oil. 🙂
He was predicting the end of his career not sea arctic ice. hahaha..
Obviously in the one case it wasn’t a lightening bolt.
It was a CO2 laser mounted on a fossil-fueled drone with carbon composite wings and body.
In the stairs case, graphite was likely spread all over the top step. (A very slippery form of carbon.)
In the lorry case, if the lorry had been battery powered she would have heard it coming.
Oh wait. Maybe not. That one was probably an accident.
Slipped down steps at a new years eve party. So how much alcohol was involved ?
The impression I get from watching him on the above video is of senility.
He says in his introduction that he’s been studying the arctic and antarctic oceans for 40 years, yet watch at the 10:00 minute mark of the video as he is discussing methane release north of Siberia. He turns to the arctic map behind him and points to (close enough) the East Siberian Sea. Then he points further west to (correctly) the Kara Sea, but then points even further west to the Berents Sea and calls it the Laptev Sea. Professor, the Laptev Sea is EAST of the Kara Sea, not west of it. My Gosh, if he doesn’t even have basics like that still in his grasp then what else is there to trust from him? And it wasn’t a careless misstep either because a few moments later he repeats his geographical confusion placing the Laptev west of the Kara.
Good catch. These slips are not often enough pointed out.
It took him more than two -2- years to realize that there is someone after him, allegedly. That isn’t what I call ‘quick thinking’.
Peter Wadhams is quite justified in his fears, namely that he will be considered a lunatic for believing it is possible to murder a person by lightning.
Yes, as someone above said, spread the news, an alarmists prediction came true.
These deaths must have been organized by the same people who faked the moon landings.
Wadhams’ belief that three accidental deaths of climate scientists were the result of a hitman is most likely a statistical cluster. If you look at the data enough, such clusters pop up all over the place. For instance the second and third US Presidents both died on July 4th 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The fifth President died on the same day five years later. There is no evidence to suggest this is anything more than a cluster.
It says a lot about how Wadhams, Lewandowsky & Cook look at cause and effect in complex data. They have strong opinions about how the world is structured, so anything that deviates from this perception is the result of human design. There must be a reason for things happening’ so somebody must be responsible. Random clusters, or things that we might night be able to explain due to inadequate information, are possibilities that never enter their heads. But to really understand the complexities of climate, being able to grapple with the issues of statistical anomalies, personal bias and the limits of knowledge are a prerequisite.
Also a facet of Wadhams and his ilk thinking they are way more important than the really are.
Its an EGO thing.
I mean, Wadhams and his predictive ability can only HELP the sceptical/realist argument… why would anyone want to get rid of them.
Ridicule is a far better weapon!
I reckon.. let them keep making predictions, fun for all. !.. 🙂
If Dr. Wadham would follow RGB’s posts, he would realize that p-happens, sometimes with tragic consequences. But then again, he probably would have toned down his ice predictions too.
This comment stream is typical Climate Change Scientists Assasinated Denialist bilge.
All the computer models prove that they were assasinated.
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‘The lorry driver involved, James Matovu, was described by the coroner as having been “oblivious” to having struck Dr. Giles, and stopped his vehicle once an off-duty police officer flagged him down as he drove along Victoria Street.
The Standard reports that he ran back to the junction where the collision had happened, the newspaper adding: “members of the public tried to stop him seeing the horror of the scene.”’
You’re literate, Pamela – not running solely on Oestrogen?
Hans
The coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe,
sitting on the inquest of Dr Katherine Giles, who was killed while riding her bike by a left-turning tipper truck in Victoria last April, says cyclists have to be aware of the danger of riding up the inside of lorries.
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You understand, Pamela – the english ‘turning left’ is the normal ‘turning right’.
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And it’s the NORMAL behaviour of governmental paid to go on bicycle from HOME in a world metropol to WORK in a world metropol.
Luxury that 99 per cent of world inhabitants can only dream of.
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and they have the arrogance not to care about traffic – its always the usual suspect lorrie drivers on their stinking diesels: /who make the world going round!/
Never heard of ‘Pamela good doers’.
It’s always beeing ‘Pamelas hypocrits’.
Hans
It’s true. The hitmen were:
Jim Beam, Captain Morgan, and Johnny Walker.
Its nice to be skeptical, but too much conspiracy quickly becomes a psychosis.
If you spend any time in the East, you will quickly find that everything is controlled by Mossad. You can have a simple car crash in Dubai, and the word on everyone’s lips will be that Mossad arranged it.
Loonies, the lot of them.
Peculiar lack of response to this article by the usual warmist trolls. Is it possible that they have a sense of shame?
Joel D Jackson was on, he made a sensible and informative comment:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/25/wheres-leawandowsky-and-cook-when-they-are-need-to-look-at-real-conspiracy-ideation-like-murder-plots-from-big-oil/#comment-1993377
Yeah because these three were the big triple threat to the oil industry.
It constantly astounds me how intelligent people can sometimes be so damn stupid.
Just has well climate ‘science’ provides a happy home for such people, because otherwise would be hanging around bus stops annoying others we there mad rantings.
“Climate Science”… the “Sharknado” of science…
He is not a lone Wolf when it comes to being an attention seeking moron.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/926960/climate-change-minister-echoes-global-warming-concerns/
Oh dear. Lunatic fringe. Etiamsi verum iustitia esset
Not only will we direct the weather to strike you with lightning if we don’t like you but we will hide the heat where you’ll never find it. — Big Oil
I almost feel sorry for Dr. Stephen Lewandowsky. Despite inventing the extremely popular 97 percent meme, he doesn’t get proper credit nor any royalties on it. In fact, he has precious few readers to his blog as indicated by “0 comments” again and again:
http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/bio.php?u=22
In the unlikely event someone still wonders what is the big deal, let me introduce you to an interesting scientific question posed by Lewandowsky where he presents an argument that can mean two very different things, and reveals an intense bias because of his choice:
(from: http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/lewandowskyLib.html)
“if you are a victim of an assault, you are between 4 and 5 times more likely to be fatally shot if you had a gun available than if you didn’t have a gun”
This can be restated as “IF you are between 4 and 5 times more likely to be shot, you are also more likely to have a gun available.”
It is a correlation with no clear causation (it is probably circular: living in a high crime area persuades people to buy guns which also persuades criminals to buy guns and it becomes an “arms race”).
As we now see, one might claim “X” percent of conservatives believe in conspiracies; but what is the “control group”? How many warmists believe in conspiracies? Nearly all it would seem — Koch is behind all denial. Now of course we have conspiracy to eliminate ice scientists in the UK.