Posted on 01/08/2017 7:25:34 AM PST by rktman
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson she was so sick of politicization of global warming in academia she resigned from her tenured position at Georgia Tech.
Ive been vilified by some of my colleagues who are activists and dont like anybody challenging their big story, Curry told Carlson Friday night.
I walk around with knives sticking out of my back, she said. In the university environment I felt like I was just beating my head against the wall.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Welcome to the fight club. Have been fighting these clowns since the ozone hole scare. That hole will be opening up bigger than ever in a few years.
Nothing new here: Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc, she wrote. How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide.
A friend who taught report writing to scientists at CDC reported the same thing back in the 1980s. Back then, in order to get funding, whatever work you did for the CDC has to be related to AIDS breaking out into the general population.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
I go to yahoo when I have a couple minutes to click on lots of links to get to an original article. This one was “shared” today, and I am wondering why now?
“Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Endorsed Obama Now Says Prez. is Ridiculous & Dead Wrong on Global Warming”
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever: ‘Global warming is a non-problem’
‘I say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, but you’re wrong. Dead wrong.’
‘Global warming really has become a new religion.’
“I am worried very much about the [UN] conference in Paris in November...I think that the people who are alarmist are in a very strong position.’
‘We have to stop wasting huge, I mean huge amounts of money on global warming.’
July 6, 2015 by Marc Marano. There’s over 1k replies so going to skim read. Also, the Dr. resigned from the American Physical Society in Sept 2011 because of the warming promotion.
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