What do you call a mineralogist who got fired from the University of Ottawa after he stopped teaching the subject matter of the science courses he was assigned and let his students talk about whatever they wanted in class and gave them all an A+ anyway, who declared that physics is a scientific scam out to get you and that students should refuse to read scientific course curricula, who got arrested when he refused to leave campus, and who blamed the whole episode on “the Israel lobby”?
If he has announced that he thinks global warming is a hoax, and if you are global warming denier Jo Nova, you call him a “physicist” and “former professor and environmental science researcher” and laud his expert opinion. You also treat this as a new scientific defection when actually the story’s kind of old. Anything to make it look like serious science says global warming isn’t real.
