I assume from Dougy’s earlier comments (e.g. 16th February at 4:52 pm) that when he talked about “ .. taking any legal action against perpetrators of this criminal hoax .. ” (ref. 16th April at 8:36 pm) he was referring to those who are deliberately supporting the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) hypothesis for personal gain, financial or otherwise. There appear to be several hoaxes running alongside each other and they not only involve those perpetrators who support CACC but also those who reject it.
Although there are far more reliable sources, Wikipedia appears to be Doug’s favourite source of information (scientific or otherwise) so here’s a link to the definition there of “hoax” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax). Note those words “deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth” because in my opinion there are relativley few, on both sides of the CACC debate, who are deliberately fabricating falsehoods.
In the comment here on 15th Oct. at 2:46 pm MattStat’s QUOTE: .. The word “hoax” would be unfortunate .. UNQUOTE almost hits the nail on the head with “ .. interested parties are demanding the transfer of monies to themselves, their companies .. and so forth .. ”. I say almost because of that word “demanding” which I would replace with “inviting”. There is a web-site “Hoax-Slayer” (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/about.html) run by Australian Brett M.Christensen and he has a page of “Charity Hoaxes” (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/charity-hoaxes.html). Charitable appeals, usually are made along the lines of “ .. Please help .. We need funds .. ”, can be just as much a hoax as any demand for money.
I doubt very much if anyone who has been reading the comments here since 26th Oct. (http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/15/letter-to-the-dragon-slayers/#comment-128005) would have imagined that “ .. PSI would have anything to do with taking any legal action against perpetrators of this criminal hoax .. ”. As I said on 7th Nov. on 4th Jan. (2011) John O’Sullivan (head “Slayer”, PSI CEO and “Legal Consultant”) said “ .. The Slayers know we are a team operating a book authoring and publishing business and that I’m running this aspect for profit .. my concerns are for the book publishing core of the group .. ” (http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/15/letter-to-the-dragon-slayers/#comment-134549).
John was claiming in Dec. 2010/Jan. 2011 that “ .. beating the AGW fraud in the courts-its the only serious game in town .. My legal associates and I are asking your support to help raise funds for our next objective: defeating NASA GISS, GHCN and NOAA in the federal court in Washington D.C. .. what is needed is an effective fund raising strategy .. .. ”. As I pointed out to Bryan here on 14th Dec. PSI is now simply another publishing organisation and an insignificant one at that (http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/15/letter-to-the-dragon-slayers/#comment-149933).
Maybe, in the spirit of transparency that is claimed to be so important to PSI, dear old Dougy will enlighten us as to who he understands will be taking legal action against which perpetrators of which criminal hoax.
Best regards, Pete Ridley
