Thread by @JohnMashey

@Jaisans @Lo_VVriter @BrknMan @Spencerfletch0 @FillmoreWhite @B_Bolshevik100 @FChecker76 @sueytonius @aldavidson99 @roger_clague @Kenneth72712993 @variegated2 @glinch72 @FlowerandFist @JohnDublin10 @RoyPentland @mentalmal1 @ejwwest @OscarsWild1 @TomPlesier @MikeDel21893959 @PaprikaLady @flyonthewall182 @BJChippindale @BubbasRanch @FriendsOScience @LouisCy72344053 @Robert76907841 @SteveJenks63 @Veritatem2021 @Realnotdreamer @xxghostface420 @aSinister @njbtweet @Ceist8 @JoshSehn @JR4_Truth @rubiginosa @DocSnow1 @Homer4K @FactSparrow @Roark_Architect @ZombiePiano @OzzmanOsgood @jefftonna1 @fagandr1 @DawnTJ90 @DaveWRose @gjcats @Tangomitteckel 1/ ~2005 I heard Stanford (Nobel physicist) Burt Richter give a general-audience version of this talk on climate & energy for small group in our nearby town.
www-group.slac.stanford.edu/do/brichter/pr…
When Q&A came, 2 eager-beaver guys started peppering him with classic denier meme questions.

@Jaisans @Lo_VVriter @BrknMan @Spencerfletch0 @FillmoreWhite @B_Bolshevik100 @FChecker76 @sueytonius @aldavidson99 @roger_clague @Kenneth72712993 @variegated2 @glinch72 @FlowerandFist @JohnDublin10 @RoyPentland @mentalmal1 @ejwwest @OscarsWild1 @TomPlesier @MikeDel21893959 @PaprikaLady @flyonthewall182 @BJChippindale @BubbasRanch @FriendsOScience @LouisCy72344053 @Robert76907841 @SteveJenks63 @Veritatem2021 @Realnotdreamer @xxghostface420 @aSinister @njbtweet @Ceist8 @JoshSehn @JR4_Truth @rubiginosa @DocSnow1 @Homer4K @FactSparrow @Roark_Architect @ZombiePiano @OzzmanOsgood @jefftonna1 @fagandr1 @DawnTJ90 @DaveWRose @gjcats @Tangomitteckel 2/ He answered them easily, then said they were just repeating bad arguments, some by physicists he knew personally, who he thought had gone to the dark side ((I had a pretty good idea who he meant, read Merchants of Doubt.)
The two guys shrank in their chairs.

@Jaisans @Lo_VVriter @BrknMan @Spencerfletch0 @FillmoreWhite @B_Bolshevik100 @FChecker76 @sueytonius @aldavidson99 @roger_clague @Kenneth72712993 @variegated2 @glinch72 @FlowerandFist @JohnDublin10 @RoyPentland @mentalmal1 @ejwwest @OscarsWild1 @TomPlesier @MikeDel21893959 @PaprikaLady @flyonthewall182 @BJChippindale @BubbasRanch @FriendsOScience @LouisCy72344053 @Robert76907841 @SteveJenks63 @Veritatem2021 @Realnotdreamer @xxghostface420 @aSinister @njbtweet @Ceist8 @JoshSehn @JR4_Truth @rubiginosa @DocSnow1 @Homer4K @FactSparrow @Roark_Architect @ZombiePiano @OzzmanOsgood @jefftonna1 @fagandr1 @DawnTJ90 @DaveWRose @gjcats @Tangomitteckel 3/ I guess they suddenly realized that Nobelists who study up on climate aren't as dumb as they wanted to believe and had heard all the memes before. We broke for coffee and cookies, they slunk out without further words.

@Jaisans @Lo_VVriter @BrknMan @Spencerfletch0 @FillmoreWhite @B_Bolshevik100 @FChecker76 @sueytonius @aldavidson99 @roger_clague @Kenneth72712993 @variegated2 @glinch72 @FlowerandFist @JohnDublin10 @RoyPentland @mentalmal1 @ejwwest @OscarsWild1 @TomPlesier @MikeDel21893959 @PaprikaLady @flyonthewall182 @BJChippindale @BubbasRanch @FriendsOScience @LouisCy72344053 @Robert76907841 @SteveJenks63 @Veritatem2021 @Realnotdreamer @xxghostface420 @aSinister @njbtweet @Ceist8 @JoshSehn @JR4_Truth @rubiginosa @DocSnow1 @Homer4K @FactSparrow @Roark_Architect @ZombiePiano @OzzmanOsgood @jefftonna1 @fagandr1 @DawnTJ90 @DaveWRose @gjcats @Tangomitteckel 4/ I few years later, the American Physical Society (APS, physics, I'm a member) suffered from having a notorious denier slip an article through a weak editorial process (no peer review). I alerted Burt, not one to suffer fools gladly. Here's the story:

https://twitter.com/JohnMashey/status/1404130186161909761?s=20