Friday, April 6, 2018

   LORD  MONCKTON'S  CONDENSED  AMICI  CURIAE  SOUP
                   JUST ADD DUDGEON AND SERVE  BOILING


SPECIAL STATEMENT OF AMICI CURIAE IN REPLY TO RESPONSE BY PLAINTIFF TO MOTION TO FILE AMICI CURIAE BRIEF
(3) PROFESSOR DAVID LEGATES…

On March 16, 2018, the above-listed persons filed their Motion for Leave to File an Amici Curiae Brief in Support of Defendants.
On March 20, 2018, Plaintiff filed its Response to the Motion,
II. SUMMARY

Plaintiff’s allegations are untrue, unfair, or … described as a logical fallacy by Aristotle in his Sophistical Refutations some 2,500 years ago. Argumentum ad hominem is an infamous subspecies of ignoratio elenchi… 
III.
ARGUMENT

(A) Plaintiff says: ... “the proposed amici are (with one exception) not climate scientists ...”
Response:
Amici are happy not merely to admit that this is true, but to embrace and champion that truth. The whole point of our amici brief is that climate scientists do not know what they are doing 

Climate scientists’ ignorant mishandling of this crucial material… requires intervention and correction by Engineers and Statisticians. Amici are able to supply that necessary expertise.
1     Lord Monckton received individual tuition in applied mathematics and in mathematical as well as formal logic as part of his Cambridge degree in Classical Architecture.
REALLY?   DESPITE   BEING  TUTORED  BY   HIS TUTORS, THE LATIN-LITERATE LORD FLUNKED HIS FINAL TROPOS EXAMS, GOT  A  THIRD-CLASS  CLASSICS  DEGREE,  AND WENT  ON TO  A  CAREER  IN  SHIRTMAKING


14  Dr. Willie Soon is an award-winning astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
SOON IS  NOT  AN ASTROPHYSICIST, 
NOT AT THE HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER, 
AND WAS NEVER HIRED BY HARVARD. 
HE’S AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER WHO ASSISTED THE SMITHSONIAN  IN DC WITH CIRCUIT DESIGN.

 AS THE AMICI NOTE IN THE SAME DOCUMENT :
“the emoluments actually  received by Dr Soon from these contracts were approximately equivalent to the annual wages of a burger-flipper at McDonald’s.”

where his work on the connection between solar variability and terrestrial climate

THE FIRST AUTHOR OF THAT  LONG DISCREDITED WORK, DR. SALLY BALIUNAS,  THEN AT HARVARD, PRESENTLY REFUSES TO DEFEND IT AND IS NOT MENTIONED AS AN AMICUS

 is directly relevant to the scientific questions that amici have brought before the Court.

THE DEFENDENTS WISELY DO NOT INVOKE SOLAR VARIABILITY TO EXPLAIN AWAY CLIMATE CHANGE
Plaintiff says:... “Willie Soon ... is known to have accepted more than $1.2  million from the fossil-fuel industry, including Exxon and the American Petroleum
Institute (an organization supported by all Defendants directly or through their predecessors and/or operating subsidiaries. As the New York Times has reported,
Soon’s correspondence with his corporate funders “described many of his scientific papers as “deliverables” that he completed in exchange for their money.


18  Dr David Legates is the tenured Professor ofClimatology in the University of Delaware, and is a former Delaware State Climatologist.

Plaintiff says: “David Legates identifies himself as a “former State Climatologist” for Delaware, but he does not mention that the Delaware governor ordered him not to use that title in connection with any statement on climate change… He is a research fellow at the Independent Institute  (which previously received funding from Exxon and other fossil fuel interests),


Plaintiff says: “... the first four proposed amici (Monckton, Soon, Legates and Briggs) are ... affiliated with [the] Heartland [Institute]; three are explicitly listed by Heartland as its “policy advisors”. And Heartland has a well-known history of attacking scientific conclusions to gratify its corporate funders… Heartland is a veteran anti-science mercenary.”