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Climate scientists decry 'political assaults'
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 5/7/10
| David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Posted on 05/07/2010 10:52:03 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL
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.
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/08/2010 12:50:09 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: SmithL
“innuendo and guilt by association, the harassment of scientists “
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.
To: Uncle Miltie
The Global Warming Hoax science is SETTLED.
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posted on
05/08/2010 1:07:11 AM PDT
by
CitizenUSA
(Governor Palin paid her dues to Juan McPain and is backing away (and that's very encouraging!))
To: Rocky
These guys play politics to get grants and funds to study what passes for science these days. Will politics is a two edged sword, they have just never had the other edge served up to themselves by the politicians they seek to influence..
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posted on
05/08/2010 1:13:24 AM PDT
by
carcraft
(Pray for our Country)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
If warmists want to be treated with respect they need to start treating skeptics with due respect. Until then, they have zero credibility. Exactly
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posted on
05/08/2010 1:14:34 AM PDT
by
Rocky
(REPEAL IT!)
To: SmithL
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.
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posted on
05/08/2010 1:17:19 AM PDT
by
skimask
To: SmithL
“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?
To: SmithL
We're simply not willing to eat the global warming "crap sandwich" they've cooked up. Falsified evidence, the scandal at East Anglia and cooling trends have killed global warming.
"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.
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posted on
05/08/2010 2:13:27 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: SmithL
Funny, did these guys speak up when the “Global warmining deniers” were being demonized? I’m guessing...NO!
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posted on
05/08/2010 3:53:20 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: agere_contra
"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." 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.
To: rbg81
"Funny, did these guys speak up when the Global warmining deniers were being demonized? Im guessing...NO!" Well, they could hardly do THAT, now could they. Since they were the ones orchestrating the demonization.
To: SmithL; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
![](http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2897/picture3qihg3.gif)
Legions of Anthropogenic Global Warming Skeptics
- Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Project, has been signed to date by 31,486 American scientists, including 9,029 with PhDs, and nearly 4,000 with specific training in atmospheric, earth, and environmental sciences. All signers have the necessary training in physics, chemistry, and mathematics to understand and evaluate the scientific data relevant to the human-caused global warming hypothesis and to the effects of human activities upon environmental quality.
- Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming signed by 47 scientists against the highly uncertain scientific theories being used to support global environmental regulations in anticipation of the Earth Summit (Brazil 1992). FEBRUARY 27, 1992
- THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE originally a prebuttal to the 1997 Kyoto Climate Treaty Conference. It has 105 signatories. (1995, 1997, revised 2005)
- The CATO Institute Climate Change Ad signed by 115 scientists, mostly PhDs. Ad in pdf form. March 30, 2009
- 141 Scientists Sign Letter Sent to UN Secretary-General Questioning Global Warming stating that the science behind anthropogenic global warming is anything but "settled". December 8, 2009
- U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claim Over 700 dissenting scientists to date from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. Initially released December 2007.
- Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change approximately 1000 endorsers of the International Climate Science Coalition, March 2-4, 2008.
- Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics, with a worldwide membership of over 36,000, has submitted a memorandum to the U.K. Parliament in which they excoriate the CRU as an affront to the integrity of science, as well as decry the corrupt peer review process in climatology that has evolved to support the anthropogenic global warming fraud. February 2010
- More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims in an open letter to German Chancellor. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. The scientists declared that global warming has become a pseudo religion and they noted that rising CO2 has had no measurable effect on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility." August 9, 2009
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posted on
05/08/2010 4:33:26 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Let his days be few; and let another take his office. " - Psalm 109:8)
To: SmithL
apparently George Lakoff tested the McCarthy phrase and liked it
To: SmithL
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?
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posted on
05/08/2010 5:12:26 AM PDT
by
RoadTest
(Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
To: SmithL
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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posted on
05/08/2010 5:44:52 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: SmithL
“Reverse Argument Against the Man...”
Doesn't work that way either. No derivative trading in air folks. Foot down now.
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posted on
05/08/2010 6:27:08 AM PDT
by
Shady
(The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
To: BIGLOOK
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