Understanding Steven Goddard (Spoiler Alert: Fool's Errand)

A while back, I blogged about an apparent concentrated effort, campaign, or maybe even a veritable crusade on the part of Steven Goddard to devolve into a completely incoherent and irrational disaster before the very eyes of the world. Well, I must admit I drastically underestimated his desire and determination that we all find him utterly incomprehensible.

Today, we had this odd, indecipherable blurb from him:

Understanding The Hiatus

"The global warming hiatus is easy to understand.

It is much harder for NOAA to tamper with post 1979 global data, because we now have satellite data – which restricts the amount of cheating which they can do."

In point of fact, the hiatus is easy to understand...it's the hiatus that wasn't and ain't.

But, wait, Goddard is claiming proof of the "pause" is more dependent on satellite data than surface station data? Huh? Let's look at the data sources behind the so-called "pause," shall we?



NOAA/NCDC: surface stations.

NASA/GISS: surface stations.

CRU/HADCRU: surface stations.

ERAI: surface stations.

Even if it's the case that "pausers" are having a steamier love affair with, say, UAH or RSS satellite data, or numbers drawn from some other NASA satellites or temperature data derivation technique, uh, how exactly is it that these alleged impervious sources have allowed GISS to continue its devious US surface temperature manipulation as Goddard claims is the case? How did those supposed data-shifting shenanigans slip through the hiatus-guaranteeing, tamper-resistant, satellite gauntlet again exactly, hmmmmmmm?

Can anyone figure this Goddard nutjob out? With whom is this cretinous idiot even arguing anymore? Himself?! Has his science denial become so virulent that he even denies his own pseudoscientific conspiracy theories? Anything remotely scientific-sounding (which gives him and his bubbling blog bilge more credit than they deserve) is a target? Or is it just that he has been so roundly and soundly thrashed and humiliated before that he is too afraid to go after anything but his own unscientific garbage now?

What.

The.

Fuck?!