Mike Steketee

Monckton's "selective quotation and misrepresentation"

tlambert | January 11, 2011

Mike Steketee bucks the groupthink at The Australian with an article on why it is necessary to adapt to the coming global warming. Christopher Monckton responds with a Gish gallop of 24 points where he alleges Steketee got it wrong. Steketee's response is devasting: again and again and again he shows that Monckton misrepresented what Steketee wrote. Even Andrew "confirmation bias" Bolt, after at first being convinced that Monckton had shown Steketee to be wrong, was compelled to concede that Monckton had verballed Steketee. Though I'm sure Bolt will believe with all his heart and all his…

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