Personally I ignore any arguments I see from Matt Ridley because my own experience tells me that he&#x27;s a serial liar and distorter of facts. I don&#x27;t have the time in my life to sort though the bullshit in every Ridley article by reading all the &quot;sources&quot; he quotes to see how he has misrepresented them. Just glancing at the abstracts suggests several of those articles at least have been misrepresented by Ridley, but I&#x27;d have to pay to read them to find out.<p>It&#x27;s no coincidence that a bunch of HN&#x27;s resident climate change deniers are suddenly popping up in the comments to this submission to defend Ridley.