And now for Amazongate (the river, not the company)

I am embarrassed to say that I almost immediately lost interest in that article when I realized it was "Amazon the rain forest" and not "Amazon the internet buy-n-large".

My apologies. Fixed.

I suggest HN to create a label for this kind of GW deniers's propaganda; it would help me avoiding it.

HN is begginning to look at the place where conspiracy theorists like to meet. We already have GW deniers, people that claim that smoking doesn't cause cancer, ... I wonder when the creationists and anti-vaccines crowd will arrive.

It really does a lot to hurt the community here. I joined HN because it seemed like a more critical and intelligent community than most others around, and yet this kind of unscientific garbage makes the front page with depressing frequency.

Short version / key paragraph:

the IPCC is relying for its assertions that "up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation" on a free-lance journalist/activist and a specialist in ... forest fires in Australia