This is (yet another) troubling thing from the article. Several bad things come to mind, but I'll keep it to just 2 for now:
1. A well-known University has an entire department for NOT ONLY Climate Change itself (the Dept of Climate Dynamics - I looked it up), but a separate "Center" for Communications of Climate Change issues... or, as one blogger put it: a place "where only one viewpoint is allowed." This absolutely flies against the grain of what Universities as supposed to be about: research, idea exchange, and advancement of the arts and sciences.
2. So now we have this poor kid who is soon to obtain the title "Doctor", which will instantly qualify him to discuss Climate Change issues on PMS/NBC as an "expert" on the topic. Here's the real problem, though: Clearly -- as evidenced from the article -- his thrust of research is not about the truth. It is about how to Tell The Big Lie and make it believable. That degree will come in real handy once Climate Change is finally flushed down the toilet of public opinion... oh, but wait... your research area is on techniques of modifying public opinion? Well, okay, you should be able to easily find work for a future Democrat administration.
Well done, George Mason University: you promote Doctoral degree programs in the Art of The Lie.
When I fought wind turbines in Southwest Michigan, my nemesis was a guy dispatched from Michigan State's School of Agriculture. His pitch was to get farmers to sign up for the lucrative lease arrangements being dangled in front of their noses. Needless to say having to fight for my property rights against a guy on the State payroll was yet additional salt in an already irritated wound.