Dear Ben Santer

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=2441 ^ | William M. Briggs

[mattstat]

Dear Ben,

How was your trip to D.C.? Were you nervous when you testified before Congress about how ridiculous climate science in the public has become?

I read that you have been receiving threats to your family. What a world. Obviously, a few climate skeptics---and a few non-skeptics, too---have gone over the edge and slipped into lunacy. I think that anybody who has written you a threatening letter ought to be tracked down and slapped silly.

I don't mean that metaphorically. If I could, I'd take turns sitting on your front porch with a shotgun loaded with buckshot. And if anybody else with a yellow Hummer tried to drop off a rat in your yard, I'd happily test that vehicle's claim of being bulletproof.

Do you know a guy named Mike Adams? Criminology professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He writes about a lot of controversial stuff (feminism, homosexuality, etc.), the consequence being that he receives more death threats in his Inbox than spam.

Adams, who is a paid-in-full member of the NRA (me too), has a classy way of handling someone who writes him a threatening letter: he provides the idiot a list of his favorite guns and asks which of them the idiot would like to be shot with were he to actually carry out his threat. This either produces an immediate apology or dead silence. You might like to try it.

They said you now have bodyguards whenever you talk publicly. That is so cool. Do they have...

[steelyourfaith]

 

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