Those Climate Pugilists

American Spectator ^ | 3/12/2010 | Paul Chesser

[IbJensen]

Pity the poor Climategaters. The staid were played. Gentlepersons were violated. And the billion-dollar global warming science complex can't compete with spunky skeptics.

Those are some of the complaints registered in newly disclosed emails among members of the National Academy of Sciences, whose messages were mysteriously made public last week via the Washington Times. Some call it Climategate II; Whinergate is more apropos.

Among their electronically-sent lamentations:

• "Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons' debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules," said Paul "Nostradamus" Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist.

• "This was an outpouring of angry frustration on the part of normally very staid scientists who said, 'God, can't we have a civil dialogue here and discuss the truth without spinning everything,'" said Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

• "They're not going to win short-term battles playing the game against big-monied interests because they can't beat them," Schneider, in a phone interview, talking about alleged competition with energy company funding of skeptics.

Wow -- Schneider, who in a November interview with the New Republic announced, "I am an activist," claims that he spurns spin. Just check the rest of his rhetoric from a few months ago:

[IbJensen]

We the people are being swindled by misuse of funds and then faking science. If I was CEO of a corporation not involved in the Gore religion and my company did this, we'd be hanged! As far as the scientists, traditionally, they are under-finded anyway. All you have to do is play the "warming" game and TA-DA! You have all the funding you need. All you have to do is agree with other scientists data and there you are. What a scam!

[hstacey]

Any relevance they may have had a year ago is long gone and the only people they can blame are themselves...Don’t rig the data if you want to be believed...I want my money back!!!

[Servant of the Cross]

Hey, you know what? Has alGore been seen recently?

[Nuc1]

"Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons' debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules,"

Yes the folks that tell the truth ARE up against Marxist activists in the fraudulent scientific community section of the real science community.

"This was an outpouring of angry frustration on the part of normally very staid scientists who said, 'God, can't we have a civil dialogue here and discuss the truth without spinning everything,'" said Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Indeed we could discuss the truth if the climate change community would quit lying about the science.

[SuziQ]

• "They're not going to win short-term battles playing the game against big-monied interests because they can't beat them," Schneider, in a phone interview, talking about alleged competition with energy company funding of skeptics.

As opposed to the 'human caused global warming' side, which is funded by environmental groups, which in turn are funded by the likes of George Soros, and others who can't wait to get UN control over every industry in every country?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !