Posted on 12/18/2006 6:37:47 PM PST by woldnewton
WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- December 18, 2006 -- Ewire -- Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists, according to The Center for Science and Public Policy.
Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, writes: "You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed government officials' who disagree with your opinion."
In what The Charleston (WV) Daily Mail has called "an intemperate attempt to squelch debate with a hint of political consequences," Senators Rockefeller and Snowe released an open letter dated October 30 to ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, insisting he end Exxon's funding of a "climate change denial campaign." The Senators labeled scientists with whom they disagree as "deniers," a term usually directed at "Holocaust deniers." Some voices on the political left have called for the arrest and prosecution of skeptical scientists. The British Foreign Secretary has said skeptics should be treated like advocates of Islamic terror and must be denied access to the media.
Responds Lord Monckton, "Sceptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right. They do not, as you improperly suggest, 'obfuscate' the issue: they assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the 'consensus' argument and they compel necessary corrections ... "
Lord Monckton's Churchillian reproof continues, "You acknowledge the effectiveness of the climate sceptics. In so doing, you pay a compliment to the courage of those free-thinking scientists who continue to research climate change independently despite the likelihood of refusal of publication in journals that have taken preconceived positions; the hate mail and vilification from ignorant environmentalists; and the threat of loss of tenure in institutions of learning which no longer make any pretence to uphold or cherish academic freedom."
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GLAD SOMEONE
IS speaking up for free speech.
Wait, is Ayn Rand in the room?
HOORAY Lord Monckton! HOORAY ExxonMobil!
Do the honorable thing Senators Snowe & Rockefeller. Resign.
Everyone should read Lord Monckton's refutation of the conventional wisdom of Global Warming. It was in two parts in the Telegraph a few weeks back. If anyone is interested I will get the link. He knows the science.
Couldn't have said it better!!!
Why didn't she write it? She to stupid to form the english language, she needs staffers to do it for her? If she can't do SOMETHING IMPORTANT then why are we, the taxpayer, paying her to sit on her duff and file her nails????
BTTT
Yes, please get the link.....I'm keeping articles like that for the publik skool educated in my family....
Regards, Ivan
Please do, Mr. P. Thank you.
It sounds strangely like the persecution many scientists had to endure for claiming that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
Fascinating how the word "fascist" is floated allover the place as a universal rebuttal to one's statement, without even bothering to seek the meaning of the word "fascist"/
"You are absolutely right! No matter who we elect to office, the staff stays on, they just migrate from one senator to the other."
Usually but not always. When the musical chairs we call elections happens, a *very* few staffers are sometimes left standing. They are then allowed to "burrow in" to the executive branch under civil service rules and pollute *that* arm of government also.
Way to go, Lord Monckton!
This Englishman is hitting the nail on the head, what can I say?
She's well paid. And the government also pays her staff well.
He wrote two articles, with links to supplementary information.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/12/nclim12.xml
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