Welcome to Free Republic and thanks for the post. A lot of people here think there is no such thing as global warming/climate change, because that's what Rush Limbaugh tells them to think. It is disgraceful that pols are muzzling scientists. But what Donald Kennedy needs to do, is to get the ear of the President and the Republican leadership, not antagonize them.
What is disgraceful is spending billions of taxpayer dollars every year to create more models to push a blatently political scientific theory. Forcing is not worth billions in research. Independence from foreign oil is nice but it's not worth billions in boondoggles either.
I gotta somewhat agree with you though, Rush Limbaugh is no scientist either. I doubt he's looked into the science more than superficially. I have studied forcing, both from an energy balance and a weather modelling perspective. My conclusions are my own, not Rush Limbaugh's.
[[A lot of people here think there is no such thing as global warming/climate change, because that's what Rush Limbaugh tells them to think.]]
Now that is a pejorative assessment painting with a broad brush stroke. Demonization is a very lame debate tactic. I can only speak for myself, the argument is about cause and scope of effect, and I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh. I listen to people like Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT. Do you deny the 'hockey stick' model has been proven to be fraudulent ? Do you deny that funding plays an important role ? Scientific advancement has never been furthered by consensus opinions, but by skeptics who challenge that consensus, otherwise we would still be adhering to the flat earth view. It was only three decades ago that global cooling was the professed scientific consensus creating dire predictions.