Remember that embarrassingly bad letter written by 49 ex-NASA employees saying that global warming is a fraud and that NASA shouldn't support it? Over at Scholars and Rogues, Brian Angliss tears it apart for the sham that it is. It's a pretty good review that destroys the claims made in the letter and has plenty of links to back up the debunking. I find a lot of the climate change deny-o-sphere pretty baffling. A lot of the claims are trivially wrong, a lot more are cherry-picked and can be seen to be wrong when presented in the correct context, and others are just spin and rhetoric ("carbon dioxide is plant food!") that is facile at best and outright nonsense at worst. Of course, many of them touted this letter by the ex-NASA 49 as more proof that climate change is wrong. Amazing. So as usual, let me make this clear:
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