Nor would it be necessary to concoct
accusations against scientist critics as a first - resort defense of the issue, and there'd be no need to tie it into unrelated social injustice issues, or collaborate with governments via any army in order to ram it down everybody's throats.
My favorite meme amongst the deniers is where they tend to create FUD by jumping the gun and making false
accusations against scientists.
In fact, Scott Mandia, a meteorology professor, found that media outlets devoted five to eleven times more stories to
the accusations against the scientists than they devoted to the resulting exonerations of the scientists.
This is not because they didn't exist and weren't continually making baseless
accusations against scientists (they did and they were), but rather that their claims were self - evidently ridiculous and therefore not worth airing.
Not exact matches
Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate
scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's
accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue
against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»
Accusations of serial plagiarism
against one of France's best - known
scientists have shaken the country's scientific community and the media.
Scientists first leveled
accusations against the newly retracted paper in Scientific Reports, along with two others by the same researchers, earlier this month on Twitter.
The associations I point to among the man - caused global warming promoters is really just a secondary problem, with the relevance being simply to amplify the core problem: nobody corroborates the corruption
accusation against skeptic
scientists, and it has been devoid of evidence to prove it true from its inception.
It does nothing to alleviate the appearance of any prominent
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists being separated from Gelbspan by three degrees or less.
But that will have to wait for other posts, while the basic point comes down to this: no matter which angle Gelbspan's
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists is viewed, it is full of holes.
Even though this series of blog posts concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007
against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given
accusation about skeptic climate
scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the
accusation to bits no matter where the hammer strikes.
They achieved the same result here in the UK by making false
accusations of hacking
against those who released the data proving at the very least an element of corruption and dishonesty by climate
scientists.
Today I offer this post as a «Summary for Policymakers» regarding my series of seven prior blog posts about a smear effort which took place back in 2007 that is a case study for examining other prior and current industry corruption
accusations against skeptic climate
scientists.
Those who push using RICO laws
against «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («other organizations» meaning conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate
scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their
accusation.
«The
accusations that Willie's funding sources dictate what he writes in his research papers are of course untrue; as they would also be untrue if alleged
against the many other distinguished
scientists that you employ whose funding is derived from external sources.
The
accusation against this recently deceased
scientist has extraordinarily flimsy foundation.
I use the word «authority» loosely here in the case of Hertsgaard, as he, like the UCS, is really nothing more than yet another person enslaved to the
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists most famously first seen in Ross Gelbspan's 1997 book.
And that enviro - activists» collective
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists might backfire under tough scrutiny, potentially exposing them — Shabecoff, Gelbspan, Naomi Oreskes, «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action,» and Al Gore — as people engaging in the kind of racketeering action they claim is being done by the fossil fuel companies?
In fact, McIntyre has made many
accusations of plagiarism and misconduct
against climate
scientists over the years.
One that ends up being a case study of how any given corruption
accusation lodged
against skeptic climate
scientists is separated from Ross Gelbspan by three degrees or less.
For people like Borenstein, the one last thing to ask in this whole exercise is what the breaking point must be for him and other mainstream media reporters regarding their faith in Gelbspan's ability to defend his basic
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists and all his narratives surrounding it.
The
accusation of criminality
against leading climate
scientists takes the denialist campaign of harassment and intimidation to new depths, and immediately conjures up images of McCarthyism.
Part of that code of conduct should be to refrain from unfounded
accusations against professional
scientists.
Despite the recent
accusations of fraud levied
against climate
scientists, respondents continue to place a high level of trust in
scientists as sources of climate change information.
People have every right to take issue with the inane and offensive things you have said on blogs, your innuendo, your unsubstantiated claims, and your uncritical and unskeptical acceptance of all sundry of
accusations put forth by so - called «skeptics»
against climate
scientists.
A brief set of questions and answers illustrates how any sort of examination of the «skeptic climate
scientists are industry - corrupted»
accusation doesn't reveal a nice, tidy, open - and - shut case
against such skeptics, all that's seen is something begging for a deeper investigation of why the
accusation exists at all.
they might dare to question whether his entire
accusation narrative
against skeptic climate
scientists has any merit
All are enslaved to Gelbspan's
accusation against skeptic
scientists, as I detailed in a 2012 WUWT guest post.
This abysmal failure to show us all absolute evidence of illicit money exchanged for fabricated, demonstratively false science papers / assessments is the proverbial «mathematical certainty «that dooms the
accusation, and places the whole idea of man - caused global warming in peril of sinking if its promoters can not defend their position
against science - based criticism from skeptic
scientists.
To recap: Ross Gelbspan accuses a prominent skeptic
scientist of being involved in a global warming «misinformation campaign», and he claims a key «leaked memo» phrase he supposedly found is the smoking gun evidence for his overall
accusation against skeptic
scientists.
Start dissecting their narratives, comparing them side - by - side while looking for physical evidence corroborating Ross Gelbspan's «industry corruption»
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists, and a very different picture becomes clear: these people's narratives don't line up right, they collectively have no evidence backing up their
accusation, and this prompts serious questions of whether core leaders of the global warming movement are totally oblivious to this situation, or if they knew their narratives had no merit from the start.
The irony is that the ones who are making bold
accusations in their opinion blogs
against the authors of peer reviewed published scientific studies don't seem to think that the same scientific standards, which are mandated for
scientists when they publish their stuff, should be adhered by the accusers themselves.
Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate
scientists»
accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry»
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.
The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an
accusation phrase
against skeptic
scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the
accusation that skeptic
scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an
accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.
Well there's this post for starters, where she finished a post on the apparent, and now known to be very real, false
accusations against Gavin Schmidt, with a little dig at climate
scientists in general.
You are oftentimes ambiguous, and have made defamatory
accusations against at least one three of the
scientists who hosts this blog.
And as I've noted on several times, Ozone Action and Ross Gelbspan sure appear to be the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry corruption
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists.
I barely scratched the surface in my June 8, 2013 blog post about the way the central illicit funding
accusation against skeptic climate
scientists — in its successful media traction form — traces to Ross Gelbspan.
In an embarrassing display of scientific illiteracy and political gullibility, news organizations have repeatedly played into the deniers» hands: Implicitly endorsing their unfounded
accusations of fraud
against scientists whose emails were stolen, by portraying a single error in a thousand - page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as reason to question all of mainstream climate science.