We've all been warned not to believe everything we find on the Internet, but how careful are you?
For example, take a look at the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies, published by The Institute of Geoclimatic Studies at Okinawa University. There are the usual elaborate set of requirements for submitting scientific papers, and all the other scholarly apparatus, including the table of contents of the current issue with a live link to the lead article, "Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the death of manmade global warming theory?"
Only one small problem.
There is no Okinawa Unversity.
And none of the authors of the "Death of Global Warming" paper are listed at their respective universities. In fact, the whole site is one delicious hoax!
For more, including news on sites which swallowed this hoax whole, see DeSmogblog.com.
And don't forget, as I've mentioned elsewhere about Lomborg's use of selective quotations, even when you see a reference to a website or publication that you know exists doesn't mean that what you're looking at is an accurate representation of what the original author said or meant.
Studying global warming can get a bit grim at times, so thanks to whoever did all this work for putting a little fun into the day!
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