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PHONY SCOOP ON CO2
Global warming is actually caused by growing numbers of CO2-emitting bacteria on the
sea floor, says a study published online on 3 November in the Journal of Geoclimatic
Studies. "Those who subscribe to the [human-caused climate change] theory have overlooked
the primary source" of CO2 emissions, write Daniel Klein and colleagues at the University
of Arizona in Tucson.
The problem is that Klein and his team don't exist. Neither does their Department of Climatology;
Okinawa University, where the journal is purportedly published; or its editor, OU climatologist
Hiroko Takebe.
It's a hoax designed "to expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of … 'climate skeptics,'
" according to "Mark Cox," the self-described real author of the article. Cox says several anti-global
warming Web sites cited the paper but hastily erased their coverage when the hoax was revealed.
Science got an e-mail from Cox after speaking with David Thorpe, a U.K.-based science journalist
and Web site designer. Thorpe says he created the site but denies writing the article.
The paper reports that algal blooms have gradually killed off "brachiopod molluscs of the genus
Tetrarhynchia" and other organisms that prey on CO2-producing bacteria, allowing bacteria populations
to explode. The paper has "some clever ideas," says geochemist Steven D'Hondt of the University of
Rhode Island in Kingston, but "some fairly fundamental flaws," such as meaningless equations. He also
notes that brachiopods and mollusks are two different phyla.