Posted on 05/07/2010 10:52:03 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- In an unusually strong attack on politically powerful deniers of global warming, 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 32 from Northern California, have charged that opponents are using "McCarthy-like tactics" against legitimate climate scientists.
The letter condemning "political assaults" on climate researchers was published Friday in the journal Science, and was sent earlier to the White House Office of Science and Technology, where John Holdren, its director, is President Obama's science adviser.
Members of the Academy of Sciences, who are frequently called upon to advise the federal government and its agencies on scientific questions, normally debate controversial issues sedately. But with the global warming debate becoming increasingly politically charged, the scientists struck back.
"We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular," they said in their letter. "We call for an end to McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution against our colleagues based on innuendo and guilt by association, the harassment of scientists by politicians seeking distractions to avoid taking action and the outright lies being spread about them."
The reference was directed at Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., who scoffs at most climate change data as a "hoax" and has threatened a criminal investigation of an international climate science team whose e-mail exchanges were hacked by opponents. Critics accused the team of manipulating and hiding data regarding climate change. The scientists were later cleared.
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Here is the original letter posted earlier today. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509115/posts
Come on... seeing through the BS these folks spout is so easy that a Climate Scientist could do it.
TT
I see the Global Warming Hoax Deniers are at it again.
“Deeply disturbed?” Yeah, I have to admit that’s the first non-lie I’ve heard out of these creeps. Now they have one in a row. The people in this movement should be made to pay back the money wasted on their foolishness; and we’re talking tens of milions.
Come on... seeing through the BS these folks spout is so easy that a Caveman Scientist could do it.
TT
There. Fixed it for you.
These lying fraudulent bastard are defrauding taxpayers with a total lie and need to be in Jail. There is NO DAMNED GLOBAL WARMING!!! It is all a contrived hoax!!!Seize them!
McCarthy was RIGHT!!
Did you see that drowning polar bear they have with their letter?
That kind of topped the cake for me. I was LMAO.
Government grants are going to be tougher and tougher to get and they know it. Looks like they’re going to have to find jobs. My sympathy tank is empty.
The scientists were cleared? When and by whom?
No civil organisation in the UK would be legally competent to acribe motive and 'deliberateness' to the CRU fraudsters anyway, so this verbal finesse tells us all we need to know.
They weren't cleared of malpractice: how could they be? They lost/destroyed their raw data, they refuse to explain their extraordinary manipulations of temperature station data and their equally extraordinary cherry-picking of tree-ring data.
Their malpractice is there for all the world to see - but we can't be 100% sure they did it deliberately. Because we're not telepaths.
***They can’t defend their lies, so they claim persecution?***
Sounds veeeery familiar.
INDEED.
By a whitewash investigation led by a man who had a vested interest in the global warming business.
The Chronicle does its left coast imitation of the New York Times.
If they can’t stand the heat, they should get out of the kitchen. They went political when the joined up with the IPCC, which is a political body. And now they think it is unfair for them to be subjected to political attacks????? Good grief.
Statement as of 2:00 am PDT on May 07, 2010
... Several record low temperatures were set yesterday...
A record low temperature of 44 degrees was set at Concord Airport yesterday. This breaks the old record of 47 set in 2003.
A record low temperature of 43 degrees was set at Watsonville Airport yesterday. This breaks the old record of 44 set in 2007.
A record low temperature of 38 degrees was set at Santa Rosa Airport yesterday. This breaks the old record of 41 set in 2001.
A record low temperature of 42 degrees was set at Monterey Airport yesterday. This breaks the old record of 43 set in 2001.
A record low temperature of 47 degrees was set at Hayward Airport yesterday. This breaks the old record of 50 set in 1999.
(as seen today here.)
“Climate scientists decry ‘political assaults’”
Somebody ought to tell these geniuses that that’s what happens when you bastardize science with politics.
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