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“Judah Cohen is the director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental Research firm.”

Now why in the world would the NYT publish a guest op-Ed and not feel it necessary to actually list her “research firm” which no doubt relies on government grants/contracts to survive? Yes, that is rhetorical.

One other thing I’ve noticed lately is what seems to be the slow disappearance of comment sections in various pro-Democrat websites. Some sites have none while other sites like NYT have them sporadically. I’ve personally come to the conclusion that if a site such as...oh...Bloomberg...allows no comments then I have no interest in giving the site any credence when compared to sites that allow open reader criticism.

Let’s search around.

For starters, Judah Cohen is at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.

See here:

http://www.aer.com/aboutUs/leadership.html

From the bio there, among other things he prepares seasonal weather/climate forecasts for commercial clients.

I’d love to see an analysis of the accuracy of those forecasts.

Miac. grants to AER

a $933K grant in 1999. See here:

http://www.aer.com/news/pr/1998/1998-02-16-doe_grant.html

Three grants totaling almost $900K from Recovery.gov are here:
http://www.recovery.gov/pages/TextViewProjSummary.aspx?data=recipientAwardsList&State=MA&AwardType=CGL&RecipName=ATMOSPHERIC%20AND%20ENVIRONMENTAL%20RESEARCH,%20INC.

Millions in gov’t grants here:

http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/afSearch.do?SearchType=afSearch&page=4&QueryText=&PIFirstName=&PILastName=&PIInstitution=Atmospheric+and+Environmental+Research+Inc&PIState=&PIZip=&PICountry=&ProgOrganization=&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=&BooleanElement=false&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=false&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&OriginalAwardDateOperator=&OriginalAwardDateFrom=&OriginalAwardDateTo=&StartDateOperator=&StartDateFrom=&StartDateTo=&ExpDateOperator=&ExpDateFrom=&ExpDateTo=&AwardNumberOperator=&AwardNumberFrom=&AwardNumberTo=&AwardAmount=&AwardInstrument=&Restriction=0&Search=Search#results

If you take a nickel from private industry, you are tainted forever according to many involved in this “debate”. But millions in gov’t grants somehow don’t make you more likely to toe the gov’t bureaucrat’s and politician’s lines?