Posted on 11/07/2010 9:24:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gosh. A “Climate rapid response team” from Minnesota? What will they be armed with? Wits and a hockey stick? So far that hasn’t worked out too well. From the Chicago Tribune:
Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics
The American Geophysical Union plans to announce Monday that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. The effort is a pushback against congressional conservatives who have vowed to kill regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
Reporting from Washington —
Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
The still-evolving efforts reveal a shift among climate scientists, many of whom have traditionally stayed out of politics and avoided the news media. Many now say they are willing to go toe-to-toe with their critics, some of whom gained new power after the Republicans won control of the House in last Tuesday’s election.
On Monday, the American Geophysical Union, the country’s largest association of climate scientists, plans to announce that 700 climate scientists have agreed to speak out as experts on questions about global warming and the role of man-made air pollution.
Some are prepared to go before what they consider potentially hostile audiences on conservative talk-radio and television shows.
John Abraham of St. Thomas University in Minnesota, who last May wrote a widely disseminated response to climate-change skeptics, is pulling together a “Climate Rapid Response Team,” which so far has more than three dozen leading scientists to defend the consensus on global warming in the scientific community. Some are also pulling together a handbook on the human causes of climate change, which they plan to start sending to U.S. high schools as early as this fall.
“This group feels strongly that science and politics can’t be divorced and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists,” said Scott Mandia, professor of physical sciences at Suffolk County Community College in New York.
“We are taking the fight to them because we are … tired of taking the hits. The notion that truth will prevail is not working. The truth has been out there for the past two decades, and nothing has changed.”
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Heh, that last sentence pretty well sums it up. Read the whole article here.
I find the phrase “climate rapid response team” a bit of an oxymoron. Given the speed of climate change, did they mean “weather response team”? ;-)
Well it looks like I and many of my associates be traveling more. When these guys come to your town, demand some equal time to present the skeptic side of the story.
h/t to WUWT Reader “Craig” in tips and notes.
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What about them apples?
There are big global warming problems in Bermuda. We need 1 billion dollars to go down there and research the problem. :)
I hereby designate myself a climate change expert
and will sacrifice my valuable time to be paid
to go to Bermuda for a few months to study the climate
crisis that as we all know is rapidly unfolding there.
Please have someone pick me up at the Margueritaville
Airport at 5 PM sharp.
:-)
It’s been a year since the “climategate” leaks exposed “global warming” as a complete fraud, but the AGU never got the memo? What cave have these morons been living in?
Hey, I can google stuff too. I have several advanced degrees. Does that make me a "researcher" too? Lets see the credentials, such as they are, of these "researchers." Probably a bunch of activist grad students just doing what their told and manipulating the data and "research" to provide the results they were told to look for.
Seriously, I'm surprised anyone would still risk their career and reputation on this GW scam. I thought everyone realized by now that it has been one big hoax and power grab. I thought most/all the "scientists" involved were quietly slinking away in (well deserved) disgrace due to their "highly suspect" methods. (and that is being kind)
I would be ashamed, literally ashamed of myself to even think about promoting this scam in any way.
I came to this thread hoping to see that a FReeper had posted the Ghostbuster’s emergency vehicle..........*sigh*............*sound of screen door hitting me on my way out*................
These people terrify me. A “climate rapid response team” can only sound like one thing: they are going to invade the homes of American families and swiftly exterminate the inhabitants. Of course, only Republicans would suffer only this plan.
The American people are slowly realizing that Democrats are unadulterated psychopaths. The Democrats are going to operate as quickly as they can before they become a permanent minority; we can only hope that Boehner has the balls to hold them off, which is appearing increasingly unlikely.
We are fighting for our funding...
“Suffolk County Community College in New York.”
Now there’s a leading world class cutting edge scientific institution to be reckoned with./sarc
Stayed out of politics? Not the ones promoting the AGW scam.
Pay no attention to the Global Warming Hoax Deniers!
That really made me laugh!
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