You’ve probably forgotten this thread from January of last year. EastUmpqua wasn’t the OP – it was his later appearance in the thread that first brought him to my attention and earned him his first nomination for Most Annoying Troll in a Supporting Role.
Briefly, the OP was a pile of steaming bullshit written by a complete gibbering moron trying to deny anthropogenic climate change. It’s just stunning in its abject stupidity. The poster is blissfully unaware that he hasn’t the first clue what he’s talking about, and everything he claims is so completely wrong that it’s pure comedy.
About 50 posts later, EastUmpqua chimes in with this (emphasis mine):
I studied Atmospheric Science at Oregon State (at least our baseball team is good). rboyce understands atmospheric science better than most.
Hilarity ensued. Like others here, I have no particular hypothesis for what’s going on. Maybe rboyce is a troll (or a mental defective) and EastUmpqua is another troll. Maybe they are both the same trock. Maybe they are both mental defectives. At any rate, that’s what put EastUmpqua on my radar.