CLIMATE DEBATE
“Bonus” Gets it wrong about May and Crok, 2024
13 hours ago Andy May 44 Comments
By Andy May
Wow! Our new paper “Carbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems,” in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology has struck a nerve, judging by the traffic about it on twitter. An anonymous twitter troll who calls himself “Bonus @TheDisproof” has published what he (or she) calls a list of errors in our paper that is getting a lot of views and likes from the usual alarmist suspects, some of whom are probably actually people as opposed to “bots.” One person who has reposted the “Bonus” critique is Michael Mann. Michael Mann says, “This article is a Crok.” I don’t think he was complementing my co-author Marcel Crok, but then Mann is well known for crude and juvenile remarks. Mann might still remember Marcel for his 2005 award-winning article about Mann’s notorious hockey stick graph. Marcel was the first who wrote extensively about the critique of McIntyre and McKitrick on this graph.
I’ve tried answering most of Bonus’s criticisms on twitter, but the responses keep disappearing. Not sure what is going on there. Normally answering an anonymous troll isn’t worth the bother but judging from my email and phone calls about this one, I should. So, this post addresses his list of complaints to date. I’ll indent the complaints and number them.
Bonus:
“A new climate denial paper in an obscure low impact, non-climate related journal has popped up. It is written by Marcel Crok @marcelcrok & Andy May @Andy_May_Writer, both of which spread disinfo on a regular basis. I’ll go through just some of their multiple errors here.”
First of all, I don’t know of any disinformation that either Marcel or I have posted anywhere. All our posts and the paper are solidly supported by references and/or data. Bonus’s list of “errors” follows.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/01/bonus-gets-it-wrong-about-may-and-crok-2024/
