It is very sad to see Garnaut, once a rationalist and professional economist, turn away from his profession to become a spruiker for the alarmist global warming cause. He will be remembered in history for his political correctness.

Tombee. Wow, you claim to have credentials, but given your anonymity I cannot check if they are real. I doubt they are as my use of exclamation marks (twice) clearly showed what has been known here for long that Tom Tiddler is indeed Tim Curtin. Just show your credentials are valid by rebutting my paper (available at www.lavoisier.com.au as well as at my own website www.timcurtin.com).

I look forward to hearing from you, preferably under your real name.

Garnaut was always the economic hit man.He advised Hawke and Keating on the sale of our Govt banks and the lowering of tarrifs.

Re-capping:

Tom Tiddler, retired economist, says:

“Linear regression of climate variables and CO2 shows that the physics is quantitatively insignificant in the real world, see the great paper by Tim Curtin (!) up at Lavoisier.com.au (Monday, 6 June 2011 12:34:29 pm)

And follows 2 hours later with:

“Tim Curtin's paper gives the sources for all those numbers (!)”

And late evening to Tombee:

“Wow, you claim to have credentials, but given your anonymity I cannot check if they are real. I doubt they are as my use of exclamation marks (twice) clearly showed what has been known here for long that Tom Tiddler is indeed Tim Curtin. Just show your credentials are valid by rebutting my paper (available at www.lavoisier.com.au as well as at my own website www.timcurtin.com).

I look forward to hearing from you, preferably under your real name.”

So we get a retired economist writing a “paper” on complex climate science, submitting it for review by ideological peers, and getting it published on a right-wing Australian think-tank's web site.

One cannot help but draw the analogy with the real professor, subject of the article, and laugh one's head off.

Wait, there's more: TimTom has the audacity to not only spam his "paper", but “reviews” it as an OLO sock-puppet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet_%28internet%29

The funniest bit? TimTom’s use of exclamation marks … twice!!
ROFLMHO