Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/06/2010 6:57:11 PM PST by neverdem
By ALEX KAPLUN of Greenwire This story was updated at 2:54 p.m. EST.
U.S. scientists are planning to counter criticisms directed at them during the "Climategate" scandal and congressional debates, saying conservatives and industry groups have waged a "McCarthyite" campaign, according to e-mails exchanged by the researchers.
The e-mails obtained by E&E show the scientists are considering launching advertising campaigns, widening their public presence, pushing the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to take a more active role in explaining climate science and creating a nonprofit to serve as a voice for the scientific community.
"We need to develop a relentless rain of science and scientific dialog on the incredible, destructive demagoguery that has invaded the airwaves, the news media and the public forum and has prevented a rational discussion about political solutions to human perturbations on the environment," wrote Paul Falkowski, a professor at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford University, wrote that the scientific community has been subjected to "neo-McCarthyism" fueled by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and his staff. "I am hopeful that all the forces working for honest debate and quality assessments will decry this McCarthyite regression, and by name point out what this Senator is doing by a continuing smear campaign," Schneider wrote.
Schneider was among 17 scientists whom Inhofe said may have violated federal law in connection to last year's hacked e-mail controversy, which has been called "Climategate."
Though the scientists' strategy e-mails show a desire by the scientific community to push back against attacks from climate change critics, it is not clear that they have produced a consensus on what steps to take.
The messages, which were distributed mostly in late February through a listserv maintained by the National Academy of Sciences for members in its environmental...
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E-mails show climate scientists struggling with push-back on anti-science political assault
'McCarthyite'??? Hey watermelons, how many folks accused of commie sympathies or worse was McCarthy wrong about? We can show you the Venona files. Can you show us some science?
Bring it on! We’ll knock them on their Capone-ite theiving @$$3$.
Climate change, missing links, non-existent power options...science is just junk political power grabs.
BTTT
Alfred Kaufman Stern, Popular Front
Rleated to anyone we know?
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How about scientist do SCIENCE and not PROPAGANDA EFFORTS?????
Alfred Kaufman Stern, Popular Front
Rleated to anyone we know?
Hmmmmm.
“How about scientist do SCIENCE and not PROPAGANDA EFFORTS?????”
Or at least go back to a lab once in a while and actually discover something. Hey, whatever happened to Cold Fusion, anyway? Waiting for their latest retraction to their latest boondoggle is like watching the news wire for the latest prisoner list from professional sports and Hollywood...you know there’s gonna be one almost every day...
Yes, I think McCarthy was actually proven right, at least in most cases.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/1997/ms997005.pdf
When you get a chance take a look at this Amazing. McCarthy was REALLY right!
Is that anything like "flooding the zone," Professor? Maybe Pinch Sulzberger can help you with that. He has vast experience in burying truth in a torrent of BS.
Whatta bunch of drama quenns.
The media will be well-compensated for its push for Cap and Trade/carbon credit schemes/
They want to be controlled (the media).
31,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Theory to be Named Monday
Science has nothing to do with it. It is a power grab not to mention a money grab. Look at AL and Nancy. Nancy gets a private jet that we have to pony up for. Then she runs up a 100 thousand dollar booze bill that we pay for. As for AL he wastes more of his share of energy. I would not begrudge him for that but he thinks we need to cut back and live in a tee pee or something like that. Nancy and Al can kiss my backside.
Just for fun, go look at all the EPA hirings being done in your state with State money.
Interns. Lots of them. Now, whaddaretheygonnado d’yaspose?
(LOL at your timely tag line, BTW.)
Actually, THEY were the McCarthyites.
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