There was an interesting exchange between Ed Begley Jr. and Stuart Varney earlier.
Ed Begley Jr. Flips Out On Fox: Climate Change Is Real (VIDEO)
Ed Begley Jr. is a big believer in Global Warming and as he went off he was talking up "peer reviewed" publications and "Phd's in Climate Science" as the main authorities that should be relied on. This sounds reasonable on the surface, but it isn't. This is a tactic of a group that controls and corrupts the "peer review" process and the degree programs to promote the theory and get funding, tenure, fame and all the other goodies.
Below is an answer to a question on Yahoo! Answers from a year ago about Climate Scientists(Climatologists). Ed Begley is using a well known tactic.
Just what IS a climatologist? What degree do they have?
Just what IS a climatologist? What degree do they have?
I always hear that GW advocates only take the word of climatologists-- weather forecasters, geologists, etc etc opinions don't count.
Here are the resumes-- and educational background for several "climatologists". http://www.sercc.com/personnel
Until VERY recently universities did not teach "climate" as a stand-alone degree-------- so basically right now most folks claiming to be climatologists actually have degrees in other types of Earth sciences.
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Edit-- so it appears that the current crop of "climatologists" are no different than physicists, mathematicians, geologists, and meteorologists-- or anyone else having multiple degrees in the physical sciences-- or a career in Earth "sciences".
1 year ago Edit-- then why -- when a group of "Earth" scientists reject GW theory --- are they immediately rejected by the GW advocates?? with the statement, "they are not climatologists". Actually there is no such thing as a Climatologist!
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These people are fanatics and have religious zeal about the theory and those scientists who disagree are treated as heretics.
Saw Begley earlier today.
I thought someone from FNC was going to have to “dart gun” him.
Yes — here is the text from “Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?” (Telegraph.Co.Uk)
And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.
“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”
“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”
A very good point you have made. Ed Begley, Jr., insists on getting all of his opinions from PhD’s in Climatology. That’s a very small group. He is just showing himself to be an idiot. But it’s not a new revelation.
“There was an interesting exchange between Ed Begley Jr. and Stuart Varney earlier”
- Wow..I had missed that. I always loved Ed’s acting but never knew he was an eco-nut. Interesting video..Stuart keeps his cool and Ed is popping veins and shouting. It really is no longer a science but a religion to poor Ed.
And, most of the religious scholars who handed Jesus over to be crucified all had their own “Ph.Ds” as well!
Somebody needs to point out to Mr. Ed that James Hansen, the jackoff at NASA who is *the* major global warming alarmist in the US, has his PhD in physics.
I’m pleased that Ed junior has now given us all permission to ignore Mr. Hansen, since he is not, by the Begley standard, a certified climatologist.
PHD aka Piled High and Deep