Thank you for the book … now, about that

I am taking this opportunity to publicly thank Mr. Watts for the book he gifted me.

Apparently one of my letters to the E-R so impressed Anthony that he took an interest in my climatological edification.

An urbane society dictates we don’t look a gifted horse in the mouth, but, thanks to Trump and his dupes, we no longer live in a polite society, hence the following …

When I first saw the title I immediately thought someone had penned a book about Anthony, but I promptly realized the book was an effort to besmirch Michael E. Mann, the scientist who finally proved the correlation between man-generated greenhouse gases and Global Warming.

Dr. Mann’s research culminated in a chart subsequently dubbed “The Hockey Stick.”

Put simply, the chart depicts the relationship between manmade greenhouse gas emissions and the rapid rise of global temperatures during the 20th century.

See here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11646climate-myths-the-hockey-stickgraph-has-been-proven-wrong/

Many of the so-called scientists quoted in the book disparaging Dr Mann are associated with the Heartland Institute, a conservative organization dedicated to spreading MMGW and other falsehoods, therefore, their unscholarly opinions are to be taken with a block of salt.

The principal reason Anthony’s letters are becoming ever so shrill is because, due to the research of many other QUALIFIED scientists, Dr. Mann’s “Hockey Stick” has now grown into an unbeatable “Hockey Team.”

— Jorge Smirnoff, Chico