Posted on 10/11/2010 5:24:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Conformity: "Vote Democrat," says a meteorologist and noted global warming proponent. But Democrats won't be getting the vote of the esteemed physicist who just resigned from a scientific body for silencing debate.
Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, took to the pages of the Washington Post Friday to say that while "as a scientist, I shouldn't have a stake in the upcoming midterm elections," he regretted to announce that "unfortunately, it seems that I — and indeed all my fellow climate scientists — do."
Mann warns that Republicans would launch "a hostile investigation of climate science." But investigation is, in fact, warranted.
Harold Lewis, physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been a member of the American Physical Society, the second-largest association of physicists in the world, for 67 years — most of the organization's existence. A couple of days before Mann's piece appeared, Lewis tendered his resignation.
Meteorologist Anthony Watts called it "an important moment in science history ... on the scale of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenberg church door." (Boasting a 10-kilowatt array that powers his home and driving an electric-powered Ford TH!NK, Watts can't be called a right-wing anti-environmentalist.)
Lewis is neither a lightweight nor a crank. A student of father-of -the-bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer, he studied at Berkeley and Princeton, worked at Bell Labs and advised the U.S. government on nuclear safety.
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Science really went downhill since some became “concerned”.
Dear Michael: There is no "Climate Science". You guys can't tell much about the past nor accurately predict the future.
Good, I want this AGW crap debunked as soon as possible, too soon coming!
It'll lower all our utility bills that these shysters have jacked-up recently!
Michael Mann.... You mean “Hockey Stick” Mann, the so-called scientist that falsified data and conveniently forgot the existence of the “little ice age” ?
That Mann?
His opinion is worth nothing. Even less.
Mann warns that Republicans would launch “a hostile investigation of climate science.”
Paging Congressman Issa, Please pick up the Red phone.
I think he really means AGW fraud, when he says "climate science".
Damn straight!!
Left-wing “progressive” disinformation screams that government-supported research is pristine, with no strings or motives attached, while privately-funded research is somehow suspect, with impure motives. What a baseless lie. What bullsh!t. Real scientists would do well to divorce themselves from the deranged progressive ideology which purports to respect science, but is actually undermining the foundations of science itself.
....a hostile investigation of climate science.
a hostile investigation of junk science. (fixed it)
Hostile investigation? Ask Galileo what a 'hostile investigation' is. A REAL scientist would welcome investigations of his data.
I guess this answers "what's the difference between a scientist and an engineer"? Scientists vote for Democrats, and real engineers vote for Republicans.
Excellent post! Anyone who has been paying attention now trusts "scientists" as much he trusts Congressmen.
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