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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John Holdren was a protege of Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, who proved that the 4 billion people would die from starvation due to overpopulation of the planet by 1985.
Unfortunately, Prof Ehrlich must have been too busy with Malthusian theory to notice the enormous advances being made in agricultural science that were unfolding right under his nose in the post WWII years. In what has go down in history as the “Green Revolution”, starvation in the third world was fast becoming a thing of the past even before Prof Ehrlich sat down to write his book.
While not as well known a scientist as Al Gore, Norman Borlaug as won a Nobel Prize last year for developing disease resisting, high yield varieties of grain. Thanks to his efforts, poor, starving, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963 and wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India between 1965 and 1970.
But don’t worry, John Holdren is here to carry the torch of politicized science for his army of “legitimate climate scientists”. And he’s ideally situated in the President’s cabinet. Maybe third world starvation can make a comeback if they can outlaw genetically modified crops. Or maybe they can force farmers to buy carbon credits or something. Hmmm.
That's rich, considering this: “powerful deniers of global warming,....”
The warmists deliberately use the loaded term “deniers”, because of it's strong association with “Holocaust deniers”. Talk about “guilt by association”! If warmists want to be treated with respect — they need to start treating skeptics with due respect. Until then, they have zero credibility.
The Global Warming Hoax science is SETTLED.
Exactly
If global warming and the melting of the Artic ice is going to cause the sea to rise, why did Algore buy a nine million dollar mansion right on the California coast? Surely a guy with the superior intelligence of Algore, a guy who invented the internet, won a nobel prize and an oscar fort a faked documentary wouldnt buy a house only to have it underwater in a few years.
“The Coming Ice Age” didn’t work. “Global Warming” quickly turned into a laughingstock.
And now even the catch-all “Climate Change” is in the toilet.
These crooked scumbags need to come up with a new scare.
Maybe they can hustle taxpayer grant money by claiming they want to study some new global threat....
“Africanized killer gerbils”, maybe?
"Warmers" should be treated with the same disdain and contempt as snake oil salesmen.
They should also be held financially accountable for every penny spent on the global warming fraud and should each, individually be sued as they speak out and identify themselves.
Funny, did these guys speak up when the “Global warmining deniers” were being demonized? I’m guessing...NO!
In addition to all the above, they undertook a campaign of persecution to drive any OTHER scientist who disagreed with AGW out of science, by preventing publication of their papers, denial of grant money, and many other actions detrimental to REAL science.
They SHOULD be prosecuted, in precisely the same way the "prosecuted" their colleagues who differed with their conclusions.
Well, they could hardly do THAT, now could they. Since they were the ones orchestrating the demonization.
 Legions of Anthropogenic Global Warming Skeptics
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apparently George Lakoff tested the McCarthy phrase and liked it
Horsefeathers! All this so-called weather “science” is nothing but politics - 100% politics, pure and simple. Science has nothing to do with the wool that they’re trying to pull over the public’s eyes so they can fleece them again.
How did you like that double metaphor?
McCarthy was basically correct in his charges that Communist had infiltrated America;we see the results of those Communist agents’ work in our nation today.
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