Scientist Creates a Bot to Argue About Climate Change for Him on Twitter

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A lot of the MSM newsfeed during the past couple of months has been in response to twitterbots that would create a fake twitstorm of "reactions" to a fake event.

This response sounds fair to me - now the twitterbots can yell at each other and can ignore them.

Will in Seattle on November 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM

http://xkcd.com/810/

venomlash on November 3, 2010 at 4:35 PM

We need someone to build one of these to replace the scrolling text at the bottom of Fox News.

OuterCow on November 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

--Albert Einstein

The science is settled.

--Climate Alarmist

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on November 3, 2010 at 5:09 PM

^ speaking of bots that someone must have written to post comments ^

Brody on November 3, 2010 at 5:30 PM

@5 well, it did take a while. I used Fnarf as a template.

Will in Seattle on November 3, 2010 at 5:52 PM

"All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that ist appears to demand at a given time. "Who knows, asked Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 the next day." - Sir Austin Bradford Hill

aka STFU Supreme Ruler

OuterCow on November 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM

"Climate alarmist," huh?

Way to poison the well, you sack of soggy shit.

Are you trying to imply that we can't conclude or act on anything while we're in the process of questioning? Because that's a good fucking way to never get out of bed again. "Did the sun come up this morning? If I open my eyes, will they tell me the correct answer or am I delusional? Will I still have a job if I go to work?"

Idiot.

balderdash on November 3, 2010 at 11:17 PM

Argh, why am I feeding the trolls? I should know better than to post when I'm in a bad mood.

balderdash on November 3, 2010 at 11:19 PM

Good for him! Now he just needs to make one for evolution.

I have always been... east coaster on November 4, 2010 at 1:14 AM

What a great idea! Using science and technology against the people who are confounded by having to put a stamp on an envelope or use the heater in their car.

By the way, it might not be due to us, and all our efforts to mitigate it might be in vain, but that doesn't mean we should pretend it does not exist.

The same people who deny climate change think Pi is equal to 3.00 (or should be, to make math easier for their idiotic kids).

CharlesYFarley on November 4, 2010 at 8:54 AM

How long before the Cato Institute hires a programmer to write a climate science denial script and the two bots proceed to fill up page after page of twitter feeds arguing with each other?

Proteus on November 4, 2010 at 11:28 AM

In all reality It's not a particularly great Bot, it posts the same small number of weak responses to a small number of keywords with monotonous regularity. The person in control engages directly but is equally unconvincing.

on November 5, 2010 at 3:43 AM

Scientist Creates a Bot to Argue About Climate Change for Him on Twitter

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