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Who is Murry Salby? Wikipedia to the rescue:

> From the mid 1980s, Salby conducted research out of University of Colorado Boulder. In 2005, the National Science Foundation opened an investigation into Salby's federal funding arrangements and found that he had displayed "a pattern of deception [and] a lack of integrity" in his handling of federal grant money... In 2013 he was dismissed by [Macquarie University] on grounds of refusal to teach and misuse of university resources.

  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murry_Salby

It gives one pause.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murry_Salby

To be fair, though, even if he had displayed a "pattern of deception [and] a lack of integrity" in his handling of federal grant money is not a valid argument against his climate science.

But it is a reason to disbelieve any of his claims and any data that he has generated. The logic can be trusted if one can go back to other data generators.

At that point, what purpose does he serve as a scientist? Are you going to go check all his citations and make sure that he's not misapplying them?

There is also great reason to doubt his science:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Murry-Salby-CO2-rise-natura...

As those are pretty basic errors to be making. Basically he's a total mess.

He did it twice! After getting kicked out of a top-tier university, he got a job at some obscure place, then got kicked out of that. Maybe he's a genius who sees things that 99% of climate scientists don't see, but can't follow basic institutional rules. I'll remain skeptical.

It's reason enough. The scientist has demonstrated that he is deceptive and not trustworthy. I'm not going to sift through the bullshit to find a nugget of truth when I've got better sources with which to work.

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