I’m climate change denier Tony Heller. You might know me better by my pen name, “Steven Goddard,” or Twitter handle, @SteveSGoddard. This is my story.
First, you should know that I’m pretty much a nobody in the climate debate. I’m laughed at by all climatologists. I’m not even taken seriously by true climate skeptics. I don’t have a degree in climatology. I haven’t written a single academic paper about climate change and I don’t have a job related to climatology or the weather. What I do have is a blog and a Twitter account. And as it turns out, that’s pretty much all you need to be a somebody in the climate debate.
Like a shit stain, my blog is ugly, embarrassing and, as much as you hate to, it’s something you have to deal with. One fellow climate denier described my blog as “the crack house of skepticism.” But enough uneducated morons and right-wing ideologues link to my blog to grant me substantial ranking on Google search results. As a result, any layperson on the Internet who has researched global warming with Google to a fair degree has likely read the bullshit posted on my website where I claim to be able to drive 250,000 visitors to my site every week and have received over 20 million page views as of November 2014. I have also attracted over 4000 11,000 14,000 19,000 Twitter followers with more than 18,000 50,000 84,000 111,000 tweets. And so although a complete nobody in the climate debate, I have a fair amount of influence over thousands, perhaps millions, of impressionable individuals who don’t have a basic grasp of the facts on global warming.
My first notable attempt at refuting climate scientists was in an article appearing on “The Register” website which was reprinted as my first guest blog post on Anthony Watts’ infamous “Watt’s Up with That?” climate denial website using my pseudonym “Steven Goddard.” Though I’m not qualified in any way to perform climate analysis, like many successful climate deniers, I have enough of a background in science and math to appear knowledgeable to the average Joe, but anybody with a serious background in climatology quickly realizes how clueless I am. But I’ve learned you don’t need to be right or truthful to attract an audience. Today’s political climate is rife with rabidly anti-government, free market types that are easy to manipulate and connect with.
Anyway, in my first guest blog post for Watts, I essentially accused officials at the NSIDC, a government funded organization that monitors snow and ice formation on the planet, of fudging data about the melting arctic ice cap to make it appear as if it was melting more than it was. After going around and around incessantly in the comment section of the blog post and wasting a lot of people’s time with my bad analysis, I ultimately ended up having to issue an apology and acknowledge that the NSIDC was correct after an official from the organization took the time to point out how full of shit I was. Of course, that didn’t stop me from saying other dumb shit on Anthony’s blog because I simply don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about when it comes to the climate. For example, in this post, I make the ridiculous claim that it’s so cold in Antarctica that CO2 freezes out of the air like snow similar to what happens on Mars. Even after it’s pointed out in the comments just how fucking stupid that is and after Watts posted a retraction, I continue to insist I’m right.
In 2010, after a two-year stint guest blogging at WUWT, Anthony Watts figured out what an embarrassment I was to his site and fired me from my volunteer position as a guest blogger. So, I did what any denier hungry for a piece of the oil money action would do and launched my own climate denial blog, “Real Climate,” which I supplemented with my Twitter feed a year later. Continuing to post anonymously under my pseudonym “Steven Goddard,” I hammered out piles of pure bullshit making all kinds of baseless accusations against scientists and government officials. It wasn’t until June 23, 2014 that I finally started getting some traction with a post accusing NOAA and NASA of purposefully fudging US temperature data. Of course, it was all bullshit and easily refuted but that didn’t matter. It was choice red meat propaganda and so it got picked up by the corporate shills at Fox News and spread far and wide throughout the right wing echo chamber. I had finally hit the big time and now the world had heard about Steven FUCKING Goddard.
But now that I was getting some attention, it became clear that I couldn’t properly capitalize on my new found notoriety by remaining anonymous. So on June 27, 2014, I revealed my true identity, Tony Heller.
My next big break was my speaking gig at Heartland Institute’s climate denier conference held in Las Vegas just a couple of weeks later in July. You can watch my rambling, bumbling presentation at the conference here. Despite my rather underwhelming talk, the event was still a fantastic opportunity to network with other climate deniers and start connecting with others who could help me get paid for spewing my bullshit to my denier lemmings and clouding the climate change debate for my unsuspecting readers.
Since that time, the hundreds of embarrassingly bad blogs posts that would torpedo any real scientist’s career hasn’t put a dent in my career as a professional denier. For example, there was the time I confused sea ice with a glacier on my blog and had to erase all evidence of my post when I got called out on it. Despite my buffoonery, things have actually been going swimmingly. Because fake news has become indistinguishable from real news in the minds of many and because scientific knowledge has been overwhelmed with nonsense, it makes it possible for someone like me to have real influence. My bogus charts have been cited by the likes of United States Senator Ted Cruz and I even appeared and spoke alongside Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts at his press conference in 2016. I’m also now frequently quoted as a climate authority by right wing propaganda outlets like Climate Depot and Breitbart.
I’m looking forward to continuing my work and building upon my reputation as an unapologetic sociopath and fighting the climate jihadists with juvenile insults. I am a rabid partisan and my work is an extension of my extreme right-wing ideology. Do I feel shame deceiving readers with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, half truths, and ceaseless cherry picking? Nope! In fact, I view all progressives as the enemy and I will gladly say next to anything if I think it will undermine them. And I certainly have no issue with doing all this work for money so please donate today!
Tony Heller (aka Steven Goddard), Exposed 
It’s important to understand that the average global surface temp is an average of thousands of temp measurements taken worldwide throughout the year. It’s one number for the whole planet for the whole year. This article explains it. https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-do-scientists-measure-global-temperature
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Hey Asshole, you still haven’t answered as to how they supposedly measured average surface temperature for the period 1870 to 1900, the IPCC’s supposed Benchmark period of ideal temperature.
Most probably through the use of more Michael Mann Fakery and the attempted use of cross-polinated proxy’s and no real data.
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Suggestion: Do your own research. Then you might think twice before making stupid ignorant comments.
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I’ve done my research you Fucking Moron, and I happen to have degrees which included Math, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, and that is why I understand that you are not only Clueless in regard to these subjects, but that you have Zero understanding of the Bullshit espoused in the article you pasted in regard to the assessment of a global Average surface temperature, and the Gross Inaccuracies of the hack methodology which produces nothing but a Thumb Suck figure, because I understand the Mass Scale of the Inaccuracy produced over such a large surface area with so many variables, which make it Impossible, Not Only Improbable to produce a meaningful or accurate figure first off.
Secondly, based on what Criteria, is the period 1870 to 1900 the ideal temperature period as determined by the IPCC, as it does not appear anywhere in their literature?
Lastly, back to the Fundamental Issue, you still haven’t produced the Empirical Evidence which proves that CO2 drives any significant level of warming, as you, the IPCC and every other Climate Liar make these statements without producing the Evidence to prove the Fundamental basis of your Bullshit argument.
Until you, and your fellow Climate Liars can produce meaningful Evidence to answer to the three basic but fundamental requirements set out about, you are all nothing but Bullshitters, and any value observable change in climate can Only be ascribed to Natural Variability, that which has been ongoing for Millions of years.
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Yep, I agree with all you say. I”m sorry he got under your skin enough to make you lose your cool and start getting abusive about him. That’s Ad Hominem, of course and we don’t need it. Usually it sits over there on that side of the debate. They accuse us of being all kinds of things. That’s their main argument: the kind of people they claim we are.
Not facts, logic, data, reason, but attacks on us.
Leave them with that ploy. It cheapens them and erodes anything they say.
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If there’s one thing I’ve learnt over many years, it’s not to tolerate Bullshit from Idiots, and the only way to treat them, is like Shit, it’s the only language they understand, because being Stupid, Should Hurt, even if it’s only their feelings. ( Hence of course the Leftist desire to protect their “Feelings” )
To Morons, treating them with even the slightest of respect in their eyes is viewed as weakness, because of their level of Moronic Stupidity and Dogmatism, they are incapable of processing critical thought or understanding being respected in any manner, this becomes patently obvious when you need to take a hammer to them to get them to understand the simplest of rational and logical arguments.
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I have a degree in Electronics/Computer Technology and graduated with high honors. I studied those same subjects among others and I’ve done a fair amount of research into the climate crisis. That’s why I can tell that you, Heller, and others are FULL OF SHIT!
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More Bullshit, you haven’t a Fucking Clue in regard to Math or Statistics, let alone Physics or Chemistry, which confirms that you Do Not hold any degree in the Sciences or Built Environment and there exists no such thing as “High Honors” Bullshitter, you either graduated “Cum Laude” or you didn’t!!!
You’re the Asshole who’s Full of Shit, and Fucking Stupid enough to think you can pull one over on me with your Bullshit!!!
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I don’t even know what you two are arguing about but in the last two years we’ve learned that having degrees has little or nothing to do with how right or wrong you are. Hard to be more wrong than Fausti isn’t it? But he’s probably got numbers of them.
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Some of us obtained Academic degrees, coupled with the capacity to apply the knowledge we gained, together with the capacity to question, reason and apply critical thought, while others apply various degrees of Bullshit in a desperate attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the Uneducated and Gullible, and then there are those who are incapable of distinguishing the difference.
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i can see quite easily how the figures can be manipulated using that method.
simply take more readings from warm areas than cold areas, and hey presto, the average temperature mysteriously rises
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In order for any form of Global annual average surface temperature measurement to be worth its salt, the same number of measurements covering the complete surface area of the earth with an equally spaced grid, need to be conducted every day at exactly the same time of day at exactly the same location, using date valid calibrated equipment, without which, the Global annual average surface temperature is absolutely meaningless.
Meaningful and valid comparisons can only be performed between data sets which conform 100% to the same criteria.
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I have a degree in Electronics/Computer Technology and graduated with high honors. I studied those same subjects among others and I’ve done a fair amount of research into the climate crisis. That’s why I can tell that you, Heller, and others are FULL OF SHIT!
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see, if you had any education worth counting you wouldnt be quoting B/S like ‘climate crisis’.
the only crisis is your lack of comprehension of this self correcting system we live in.
when it gets warmer, more water rises into the atmosphere, creates more clouds, prevents more warming, prevents more CO2 being warmed, co2 then drops out of the atmosphere (which it can never rise into in any meaningful way due to its mass), this is why CO2 accumulates at the bottom of oceans, because GRAVITY.
when it sinks deep enough and is subjected to enough pressure, combined with methane, we get oil, which ISNT a fossil fuel.
the only crisis is your lack of education.
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try researching john l casey’s work..heller and the global warmists are all wrong..the grand solar minimum is about to blow you all away to oblivion
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i’d like to know how a compound like H20 with an RFM of 18 cannot stay in the atmosphere indefinitely, yet a compound with 2.5 times more mass,CO2, can.
infrared heat warms water, it evaporates into the atmosphere, it forms clouds, but never 100% global coverage of cloud.
so somebody please explain to me how a compound with 2.5 times more mass CAN form a 100% global, permanent blanket.
also, id like to know how a greenhouse gas like H20 isnt a problem to warming, albeit making up more than 80% of total greenhouse gasses, yet CO2 IS a problem albeit it being less than 1% of total greenhouse gasses.
answers on a postcard please.
and then we can move on to saturation, and why it is a mechanism that is never calculated by warmists.
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Bravo!
Another question the hysterical climate change liars are unable to answer
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of course im well aware of HOW CO2 is the demon of choice.
its because its a by product of combustion, which is energy.
they want to control all the energy and therefore control us all.
its just megalomaniacs using sleight of hand skull-buggery to confound those who are harder of thinking.
they are just pea shufflers, conmen, hucksters using ‘the science’, which is a system of number fudging and fraud.
‘the science’ differs mightily from science, science is a discipline, ‘the science’ is nothing but the art of number fudging manipulation.
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Here’s a simple question for all the Communist Pigs …. aka Climate Change Psychopaths … About 12,000 years ago, Mother Earth was coming out of its last Ice Age ….. There was Ice ….. everywhere …. and then ….. SHAZAM …. it started to get warmer …… and all the Ice Melted ….. What caused the Earth to become drastically warmer ? … Evil Human beings ….. and their evil pollution ? ……. No, there was not enough human activity on the planet, 12,000 years ago. …….. The Earth got warmer ….. naturally …. Therefore, if you can refute this proposition, that it occurred naturally, then please provide the scientific proof ….. Until then, I suggest you keep your mouth shut.
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How many people understand this is NOT Tony Heller, of course?
This is some scurrilous piece of rubbish who needs ignoring.
Prosecuting by Tony Heller, condemning by the court, sentencing to exile (at least) and ignoring by the rest of us.
Please do. You are feeding a cancer simply by being here. As am I. After this I leave without a backward glance and never to return. Please do the same.
Here is Tony, a gentleman: https://realclimatescience.com/2019/04/who-is-tony-heller/
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