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Climate scientists not cowed by relentless climate change deniers
Physics Today ^
| February 2012
| Toni Feder
Posted on 02/19/2012 8:59:22 AM PST by reaganaut1
Receiving an email with a statement like You should resign, and if you dont, Ill work to see that you are fired or I know where your kids go to school would be unsettling enough. But they pale compared to what other climate scientists are getting, says Raymond Orbach, director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, at whom the first threat above was aimed.
Now climate scientistsin atmospheric physics and chemistry, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography, among other disciplineshave begun to fight back. I think the community is finding a voice, says Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose work has largely focused on identifying the human influence on global climate, and who once answered a late-night knock to find a dead rat on his doorstep.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climategate; climategate2; fakegate; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; heartlandinstitute
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Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics, the primary organization for physicists in the U.S. This article reads as if it is from a political magazine, not a scientific one, as commenters at the site have noted.
To: steelyourfaith
To: reaganaut1
Skepticism is the heart of science, remove it and you have faith.
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:02:19 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel; AdmSmith; ...
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:05:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: reaganaut1
You should resign, and if you dont, Ill work to see that you are fired or I know where your kids go to school ...
This reeks like a noose found on a faculty door.
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:09:05 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:12:12 AM PST
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: reaganaut1
"We can't account for the
lack of warming and it's a travesty that we can't."
- Part of an email from an AGW droid that was released in Climategate.
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:13:05 AM PST
by
JPG
("I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office." BHO)
To: reaganaut1; TenthAmendmentChampion; SolitaryMan; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; grey_whiskers; ...
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:15:45 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Expel the Occupy White House squatters !!!)
To: reaganaut1
My sense is that this is part of a planned PR campaign. This is the primary theme in Mann’s new book. Judging from the comments on various environmental blogs such as Revkin’s or the Amazon reviews for Mann’s book there is no real differnece in the level of nastiness from either side of this debate.
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:17:40 AM PST
by
bjc
(Check the data!!)
To: reaganaut1
"I think the community is finding a voice, says Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"
hahahaha, it's a quote from the would be pugilist:
"Ben "I am going to punch Pat Michaels" Santer"
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:18:03 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: reaganaut1
The fight to defend a failing paradigm is always political in the end. When your theory fails to predict, what else do you have left?
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:22:06 AM PST
by
FrankR
(You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
To: hinckley buzzard
"...what else do you have left?"
Peer review?
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:23:23 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: reaganaut1
My stance on Global Warming is the same as the democrat party's is on the National Debt. I am too old for it to affect me, so let the children and grandchildren worry about. Not my problem.
That was sarcasm. I do not buy into the Global Warming BS.
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:24:16 AM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
To: reaganaut1
LOL, the chief perpetrators of intimidation are supposed to be the victims of it.
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:26:12 AM PST
by
DManA
To: reaganaut1
Now climate scientistsin atmospheric physics and chemistry, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography, among other disciplineshave begun to fight back.
Poor babies. Where is my tiny violin?
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:26:54 AM PST
by
Timaeus
(Willard Mitt Romney Delenda Est)
To: reaganaut1
"This past September, rapid response team cofounder Scott Mandia and others launched the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. The nonprofit group raises money for climate scientists embroiled in legal battles.
As of December, it had raised more than $20 000 for Mann, who is fighting Freedom of Information Act demands by the American Tradition Institute think tank for 5000 pages of his email correspondence. The fund also offers informal counseling to harassed climate scientists and plans to hire a staff attorney to offer quick and experienced help.
Many scientists think they can win by blocking punches. You have to throw them, says Mandia, who teaches physical sciences at New Yorks Suffolk County Community College. The main thing is that the world understands there is a group that will defend climate scientists who are being harassed."
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:29:07 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: w1andsodidwe
It certainly all fits a comprehensive plan...and it's anti-american and another "follow the money" SCHEME.
Don't drill and force the "green" plans down our throat. The first mistake was the damn ethanol fiasco. I know farmers who have totally abandoned other crops for corn for "ethanol" only. Changed the entire price structure of the food market and it sure wasn't good news for the consumer.
The green cause IS A MESS!!
To: reaganaut1
Why should they as long as socialists are willing to pay them megabucks to lie?
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posted on
02/19/2012 9:34:32 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
To: reaganaut1
“Now climate scientists...’
These aren’t scientists. They’re political hacks and thieves trying to shove fascism down our throats. As for the threats, that’s about the only thing leftists understand.
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