Over the weekend, I took another look at the Tortoise database of “climate misinformation” that I wrote about last week. As I explained at the time, I thought the offering from Tortoise, its funder Octopus and the academic social and computer scientists at the University of Exeter was pretty dire. But what I then found in the database after the article had been published really took my breath away. The devil is in the detail, as they say.
I encourage you to read Tortoise’s explanation of its methodology. It’s a big boast of the combined expertise of researchers, artificial intelligence and civil society organisations, all brought together by an unimpeachable news media organisation. It describes the use of well-crafted data and tools as though explaining the discovery of hitherto unknown cosmological phenomena.
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A breath of fresh air picked this up from HYS bbc someone posted this link
Thank you and for what its worth Prof Ferg should be jailed and his laptop taken of him