Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/19/2010 8:13:31 PM PDT by neverdem
As Congress continues to struggle its way toward new energy legislation, climate scientists are getting a little hot. A series of major attacks from the global-warming skeptics—including last year's Climategate affair and unfair accusations stemming from the subsequent discovery of errors in the latest IPCC report—have left those in the research community understandably angry. Having spent eight years calling attention to the politicization of climate science by the Bush administration, they now find themselves on the other end of the same allegations. Whatever raw emotions this reversal might produce were on display a couple of weeks ago in yet another series of leaked e-mails: This time, members of the prestigious National Academies complained to one another about the "neo-McCarthyism" of the climate skeptics and lamented that "science is getting creamed with no effective response." One researcher called for "a relentless rain of science and scientific dialog on the incredible, destructive demagoguery." Another participant urged an "aggressively partisan approach."
The latest batch of e-mails reflects a bunker mentality among climate scientists, forged during the Bush administration and reinforced by the recent attacks on their credibility. Despite the promise of an Obama presidency, many now see themselves losing a "war" against "anti-science" forces allied with energy companies and the Republican Party. Meanwhile, scientists have been urged by liberal strategists and commentators to "fight back"—by forming their own political action committees and openly supporting "pro-science" candidates, among other things...
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They are just po’d that they will have to get a REAL job. Especially when all those cushy taxpayer funded grants dry up.
These so-called “climate scientists” know that if they lose their sham gig with all those government grants, they’re going to face HAVING TO FIND A REAL JOB!
“. . . what explains the apparent overreaction by scientists and their bunker mentality”
Maybe they think some of them are going to jail.
Colleges and Universaties are already in panic mode.
At least what I'm hearing from State College, PA.
They had it their way for so long and they thought they would not get caught with all the lies they put out. Now they are ticked that they have been caught lying.
Heh heh heh. Looks like they’ll be going back to doing ‘studies’ on the sex life of a golf ball or something along those lines.
They are angry that Al Gore got the last Nobel Prize to be given because of climate science. The job these people do can be important, but it’s just not sexy to report “cloudy with a chance of rain”.
Really who ever got international renown for saying “everything is ok, we aren’t going to destroy the Earth.”
Where are those lawsuits, with lawyers seeking bounty for all that fed grant fraud?
Just how did Bush “politicize climate science?” As I recall, the U. S. Senate, by something like 90-0 (or was it 95-0?) instructed Pres. Clinton to not even submit the Kyoto protocols for Senate consideration, much less ratification. Was Bush’s continued compliance with that expression of Senate sentiment an act of “politicizing science?”
Isn’t it interesting that this person is stuck on the ‘process’...yet forgets to mention that the SCIENCE doesn’t even pass the most rudimentary of scientific hypothesis. It has been a marxist scam from the very beginning and now that the left wing scientists are ‘found out’...they claim the ‘process’ is bad! Not the ideological root of globull warming that has colored their science from the very beginning.
The ‘process’ is bad or their ‘communication’ was lacking. How soviet of them! How Obamalike.
Sounds like the health care debate to me..except in the reverse. Now the left wants us to believe that the ‘process’ doesn’t matter in the Obama deathcare bill...it’s just how things are done. It’s the ‘sausage’ of legislative ‘norms’...look away..you don’t need to understand that they just threw a few parts of granny in to ‘season’ the federal honey pot.
Isn’t it sad that the left wing has destroyed our belief in science because they have used it(like everything else they touch) to promote an agenda? This is not an honest and true quest for discovery anymore. It is communism coming through any door they can find that is open.
AMERICA IS CLOSING THE BARN DOORS!! SHOW US SOME REAL SCIENCE AND THEN WE WILL SHOW YOU THE MONEY!
Plus, it’s going to look real nice on the resume — “Spent last 10 years doing Global Warming research.”
Oh, we were looking for a REAL scientist.
Let's be honest here. They altered primary data. Ask any scientist in any field what that means. Pointing it out isn't an act of "McCarthyism," it's an act of scientific integrity.
Isn't he a Monkey?
Chill is right, I don’t think they realize how p!ssed the general public is right now. They are very close to being hunted down in the streets like the mongrels they are.
> the politicization of climate science by the Bush administration
This author obviously resides in a separate reality, with apologies to the late Carlos Casteneda.
Ahem....Sex Life of A Tiger Woods Golf Ball
If ya want the big grant $$, you have to jazz it up a little.
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