James Randi, the guy who came up with it, was literally a climate denying pedophile
I’m unsurprised that someone born in the twenties with an identity built heavily around being skeptical of anything without a lot of concrete evidence, a stage magician whose whole thing was being angry about psychics, mediums and the like defrauding people would require extraordinary evidence to believe in climate change.
Especially given we’ve been 10 years out from irreversible catastrophe since the 70s, according to various high ranking UN officials with positions related to the environment/climate. When that time passes, releasing a new statement claiming it’s another ten years out and pretending the previous one never happened. For someone like Randi, that’s got to set off the same bullshit detectors that religious leaders predicting apocalypse do.
I’d never heard the claim he was a pedophile before though, at least not outside the same circles accusing him in hushed tones of theft, tax evasion and being a Communist. Got a decent source on that one?