Beam me to Planet Gore !
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.
scott mandia
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=663092
In my opinion the comments below which use the word “arrogant” are sopt-on. Arrogance sums it up. The best way for me to describe my experience with this guy is Woof Woof—what a dog of a person and course of experience. Arrogance—yes—thats it
Avoid if possible. He puts too much time into his website and not enough in teaching the material on it. His tangents can be unbearable. Sometimes it seemed we only had 30 minutes for notes. He made it very difficult to learn, and offered very little help. He just doesn’t seem to care about seeing his students succeed.
Injects some sense into the feel-good environutter schemes.
However, the premise is still wrong.
I doubt the 700 headline number completely. These guys are liars of the first degree.
The end of story paragraphs indicate they have 39 “scientists”.
Here “scientist” means a PhD on welfare.
Exactly.
These aren’t neutral scientists in a search for truth, but welfare queens with PhDs.
Gimme da cash...cui bono?
John Abraham degrees, BS, MS, PhD - Mechanical Engineering.
I guess there just wasn’t enough money in his field.
They are desperate to get their hands on the last of the Global Warming research grants.
Agreed. I’d also like to know how many of these 700 “scientists” have money invested in the failing carbon trade schemes.
LOL! Fixed it.
” 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. “
That’ll warm up the air.
-——hundreds of climate scientists -——
That is code for grant leeches
The proposed action is that of a pimp whose Ho’s are threatened by the new sheriff
American Geophysical UNION. They have a union? I guess that’s how you get “consensus.” A flushing sound is coming that even drones will hear.
Believe it or not, there is one just like that not far from where I live.
He uses it in parades.
Love it. The criminals, communists and traitors are publicly naming themselves. There will be consequences for your criminality.
Through the goobermint, of course, who will exact only moderate "fees" before distributing the balance to "worthy environmental organizations" and public interest groups, as they represent the public.
"A recent article published by the LA Times and picked up by other media outlets mischaracterized AGU’s forthcoming 2010 Climate Q&A Service as part of “broad campaign” to push back against congressional conservatives.” AGU issued a press release today refuting the inaccuracies in the article. Media inquiries should be directed to Peter Weiss, AGU’s public information manager, at 201-777-7507 or pweiss@agu.org
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