Posted on 01/18/2016 8:16:41 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad. What’s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change alarmism. Here is how Piers Sellers (pictured) – acting director of NASA’s Earth Sciences division – begins his New York Times article:
I'm a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I've spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which is best viewed through a multidecadal lens. At some level I was sure that, even at my present age of 60, I would live to see the most critical part of the problem, and its possible solutions, play out in my lifetime. Now that my personal horizon has been steeply foreshortened, I was forced to decide how to spend my remaining time. Was continuing to think about climate change worth the bother?
At the risk of being ungracious to the terminally ill, the correct answer to that question on any number of levels is "No." But Sellers disagrees. He uses that intro as an excuse to spout the usual litany of nonsense so beloved by the climate alarmist establishment - "steady accumulation of evidence", "climate change is real", "computer models", "unforeseen, disastrous events" – expecting his audience to receive it sympathetically because, hell, he's got terminal cancer and if he says something is important it jolly well must be, right?
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Smoking increases pancreatic cancer risk greatly. Hopefully it has not spread to his liver.
If I were him, I’d try to get the drug that saved Jimmy Carter. It’s an immunotherapy designed for malignant melanoma.
Short of that try to get the drug 3BP, a drug that needs to be studied more, but is promising.
Perhaps you did not notice that the Breitbart headline was not a direct quote from Sellers? Did you see quotation marks? No misleading at all. Please stop with the pedantry.
Not even remotely did he claim that GW is real because he has cancer …
I’m a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. …
Of course it's real. To deny that is insanity.
The Earth is a dynamic machine whose climate is driven by a medium size yellow star and a molten core. Earth's climate changes on a scale not comprehended by most humans. Ice ages come, ice ages go. Temperatures rise, temperatures fall. It's all perfectly natural.
For some retards to see this and blame it on man's actions is...well...retarded.
Amen to that!
It’s sad how many freepers just read the headlines.
Also we rightly complain about the MSN being dishonest, but the media supposedly on our side isn’t much better.
We should not tolerate that either.
He's a scientist, right?
5.56mm
Pancreatic cancer is not caused by climate. Drinking too much alcohol and doing too many drugs however
Irrefutable proof AGW is a religion for faithless leftists. Even when faced with his own demise he clings to the only religion he knows. Doesn’t mention family or friends. Doesn’t thank God for what time he had. Nope. Global warming. Sad
You seem to have overlooked jungle rot, fallen arches and creeping crud.
And dogleg shakes as well.
:-(
The same way the Vietnam War was wrong because Ron Kovic got hurt.
“Perhaps you did not notice that the Breitbart headline was not a direct quote from Sellers? Did you see quotation marks? No misleading at all. Please stop with the pedantry.”
Perhaps I did not explain it well enough. I am not accusing Sellers of being misleading, it’s Breitbart’s headline I have a problem with. Sellers was honest, Breitbart took the story and created a hyped headline designed to increase views and lead people to think some idiot blames his cancer on G.W. That is not some trivial detail, its purposely disingenuous.
Hopefully, it’s a cooker this spring!
Sellers honest? The man pushes “computer models” multiple times in his op-ed; one would presume that honesty would be a priority for a sick man.
I would say Breitbart got the headline just right. Sellers using his cancer as a pity platform to preach AGW is tantamount to his blaming the alleged phenomenon on his cancer (not for it, which is what the headline did not say). “Cancer and Climate Change” as a title is more than merely disingenuous.
What an insult to those suffering from cancer. You can’t fix stupid that goes that deep.
“Sellers honest? The man pushes “computer models†multiple times in his op-ed; one would presume that honesty would be a priority for a sick man”.
I think Sellers honestly believes in the nonsense of AGW, but I doubt that Breitbart honestly believes Sellers thinks GW is real because he has cancer. I guess we will just agree to disagree.
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You are correct, sir. It wouldn’t surprise me if Delingpole’s original title was something else.
I’d actually laugh at your pic, if the diagnosis weren’t so serious. Pancreatic cancer is almost universally fatal.
No love lost for the ‘Warmists’.
I have a friend that survived pancreatic cancer. He has a chance.
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