E-Mails Show Scientists Planning Push-Back Against 'McCarthyite' Attacks on Climate Science

NY Times ^ | March 5, 2010 | ALEX KAPLUN

[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...

[TXnMA]

“Science is getting creamed with no effective response, and our colleagues involved with the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] are getting threatened with prosecution by the likes of Inhofe."

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No, Erlich, "Science" is not under attack. It only the activist left wing of (mostly) pseudoscientists who have been serving as lying propagandists who are "getting creamed"!

And it is not "well-funded, merciless enemies" who are exposing your fraudlent criminality, it is tens of thousands of honest, sincere real scientists who are furious at your degrading misrepresentations of science.

Real scientists like me (a physical chemist) for example. And clear thinkers like my fifth-grade granddaughter, whose project,

Is AGW "Good" Science?
(Click for larger image; click again to enlarge...)

Just (yesterday) took top honors (The USAF Award and First Place in Physical Science) over hundreds of sixth, seventh and eighth grade projects at our regional Junior Science Fair. (BTW, her conclusion was "NO!"...)

[hellbender]

McCarthy was slandered, like all who attack Marxism. Wm. F. Buckley wrote a book called McCarthy and His Enemies which helps explain that phenomenon.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The flip side of that coin is “political correctness,” which is nothing more than the McCarthyism of the left.

[Carling]

Erlich was completely and utterly wrong in The Population Bomb. How he is even considered anything but a joke by the "scientists" these days is telling.

[Carling]

You're correct, and I'm changing my tagline to “I'm a neo-McCartyite ... Obama is a Communist.”

[jessduntno]

. (BTW, her conclusion was “NO!”...)

BRAVO...

[reardensteel]

>>>How about scientist do SCIENCE and not PROPAGANDA EFFORTS?????

Yeah! If they publish real data with real analysis instead of repeating that “there is no more debate” and the “truth is inconvenient”, they might actually have a shot at convincing someone that they have a hypothesis.

[Libloather]

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.

If his so-called facts are true, they should withstand scrutiny.

And, I thought the hoax of global warming wasn't supposed to be a political issue.

[TigersEye]

Woo hoo! Your granddaughter is a real powerhouse. That is a very well done project.

[TChris]

It’s appropriate that leftists tend to scream “McCarthyism” whenever they’re caught in their lies. After all, McCarthy was right.

[steelyourfaith]

Bravo ! That is a wonderful project by your granddaughter. Nice that some awards are still bestowed on a merit basis, unlike the Nobel.

Real scientists have been very vocal all along about the AGW scam, they just don't receive much press coverage from the "state supported media" (a little Rush-lingo there).

 

Legions of Global Warming Deniers

• Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Project, has been signed to date by 31,486 American scientists, including 9,029 with PhDs, and nearly 4,000 with specific training in atmospheric, earth, and environmental sciences. All signers have the necessary training in physics, chemistry, and mathematics to understand and evaluate the scientific data relevant to the human-caused global warming hypothesis and to the effects of human activities upon environmental quality.
• Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming signed by 47 scientists against the highly uncertain scientific theories being used to support global environmental regulations in anticipation of the Earth Summit (Brazil 1992). FEBRUARY 27, 1992
• THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE originally a prebuttal to the 1997 Kyoto Climate Treaty Conference. It has 105 signatories. (1995, 1997, revised 2005)
• The CATO Institute Climate Change Ad signed by 115 scientists, mostly PhDs. Ad in pdf form. March 30, 2009
• 141 Scientists Sign Letter Sent to UN Secretary-General Questioning Global Warming stating that the science behind anthropogenic global warming is anything but "settled". December 8, 2009
• U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claim Over 700 dissenting scientists to date  from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. Initially released December 2007.
• Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change approximately 1000 endorsers of the International Climate Science Coalition, March 2-4, 2008.
• Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics, with a worldwide membership of over 36,000, has submitted a memorandum to the U.K. Parliament in which they excoriate the CRU as an affront to the integrity of science, as well as decry the corrupt peer review process in climatology that has evolved to support the anthropogenic global warming fraud. February 2010
• More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims in an open letter to German Chancellor. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility." August 9, 2009

[combat_boots]

“algore decoder rings”

Eat more overvalued teensie exaggerations designed to hide greed in the fraud box?

Stay tuned!

[combat_boots]

Give her a big, FR ATTAGIRL!

[vaudine]

Right! McCarthy was obnoxious, loudmouthed, and alcoholic--but he was RIGHT!

There were (and still are) Communists embedded in our highest halls of govt.

vaudine

[lewislynn]

E-Mails Show Scientists Planning Push-Back Against 'McCarthyite' Attacks on Climate Science

Would it be possible to at least use real science this time, please?...I didn't think so.

[Hunton Peck]

Paul Erlich, are you smarter than a fifth-grader?

The answer is a resounding "NO!..."

(...and not nearly as smart as TXnMA's grandaughter -- with congratulations to her.)

[DB]

Good luck with that idiots.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/climatedata/uc3902.htm

[thecabal]

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME, PEON? I AM DR. AMY BISHOP!!!!1!11

[DB]

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/climatedata/uc3902.htm

[dsc]

“McCarthy was obnoxious, loudmouthed, and alcoholic”

And he fought bravely in WWII.