Chill Out - Climate scientists are getting a little too angry for their own good.

Slate ^ | March 18, 2010 | Matthew C. Nisbet

[eggman]

One researcher called for "a relentless rain of science and scientific dialog on the incredible, destructive demagoguery." Another participant urged an "aggressively partisan approach."

If they were concerned about scientific dialog they wouldn't be actively working to silence anyone who has questioned their methods and their data. They wouldn't be promoting conclusions that have no scientific basis that they have been forced to retract.

Their problem is they are using an aggressively partisan approach. And, if you look-up demagoguery, you'll find their mouthpiece Al Gore's picture.

[Nick Danger]

many now see themselves losing a "war" against "anti-science" forces allied with energy companies and the Republican Party

Actual scientists, as opposed to the political activists posing as scientists, need to expel from their ranks anyone who "sees themselves losing a 'war' against... Republicans." That way lies the total politicization of science, and the eventual loss of all credibility with the public.

Scientists need to look at the 17% approval rating awarded to the politicians in Congress, and ask whether that's what they want for themselves. Because if they want it, they can have it. All they have to do is continue transforming themselves into politicians.

Science is about discovering what is. Policy decisions concerning what, if anything, to do about it are not the realm of science. Scientists who would like to continue discovering what is would do well to keep their policy preferences out of their professional lives.

[Chaguito]

forged during the Bush administration

No Mr Nesbit, I'm proud to say that I have been crying foul against the pseudoscience of anthropogenic global warming since 1987, covering Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama. All those students I taught think I'm god-like in view of my recent vindication.

[familyop]

Solar maximum will be occurring in about a year and a half to two years, and winters are still wetter and longer. Maybe we’ll see some unusually interesting weather in about seven or eight years.

[BIGLOOK]

Seems to me their investments were in something other than science......and they’re about to lose their skins as well as their shirts.