File under the heading: Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Al Gore may have named it the "information highway," which was apparently his only contribution to the development of the internet, but I have named it "The Misinformation Highway."

There is a purported study going around by Klein, Gupta, et al, with a link to an apparently real scientific article. Unfortunately, research has failed to turn up such authors, such departments of climatological study, such a scientific journal, or other corroborating data. The location of the supposed scientific journal, on Okinawa, is also a bit suspicious.

But on to the claimed research. See Article here.

Klein et al have correlated changes in benthic bacterial populations with the atmospheric CO2 levels. Furthermore, they note that the bacterial production of CO2 is at least 300 times as large as the amount of CO2 produced by man. Even more interesting, they note that the benthic bacterial populations correlate much more closely with CO2 levels and temperature fluctuations than the lovely graphs and diagrams of Al Gore.

I was suspicious of the researchers when I noted that they still believed that changes in CO2 levels drive climate changes and claimed to correlate their bacterial populations with temperature change through some remarkably congruent graphs, though other evidence strongly suggests it is more likely the opposite. Recent research shows that temperature changes occur several hundred years BEFORE temperature change. But that's a topic for another discussion. I am sure Klein et al, if they were real people, would be quite willing to discuss their disagreements with other scientists, unlike the politicians and less honest and less courageous so-called "scientists" who try to shout down dissent.

It appears that fake scientists are closer to reality than the politically correct crop that makes the front pages.

In any case, this is quite an entertaining and rather elaborately put together hoax, it would seem. It's not April Fool's Day, but enjoy anyway.