Cockburn's Crankdom

Over at Denialism, Mark neatly outlines Alexander Cockburn’s descent into crankdom regarding global warming, a descent that neatly illustrates the clarity of Mark’s crank HOWTO (which predates his exposure to Cockburn’s droolings - I know as it was I who tipped him onto them).

Update (6/2): Tim @ Deltoid catches Cockburn in the quote mine.

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I should have known better than to trust a single quote cited by a denialist or crank.
Awhile back, Mark Hoofnagle took on what he termed "the lunatic ravings" of Alexander Cockburn in The Nation. In his piece, Mark noted that Cockburn wrote:
George Monbiot posts his last reply to Alexander Cockburn.
Alexander Cockburn has finally walked off the cliff once and for all.