He suggests that the origin of this objection is most beneficial to a general PR
campaign against climate scientists, encouraging politicians and public alike to ignore the advice of climate science.
Earlier this year, bankruptcy filings from the country's second - biggest coal company, Arch Coal Inc, revealed funding to a group known mainly for its unsuccessful lawsuit
against the climate scientist Michael Mann.
Although today's Russell report was mostly positive in its dismissal of
allegations against climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA), it did assert repeatedly that scientists there needed to show more «openness.»
Because Democrats have been the most vocal supporters of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation and of climate science itself, some Republicans have seized the opportunity to use accusations
against climate scientists as reason enough to dismiss Democratic policy intended to mitigate climate change out of hand.
Leaving aside the completely false claim about the meaning of the term (one he will not find supported in any modern dictionary) and about the malice in its use (another offensive claim by Howard); the lack of concern exhibited for the truly offensive language in the debate - the widespread charges of conspiracy, fraud, criminality and of genocidal intent made by
deniers against climate scientists and those who defend them is breathtaking.
Lawyers representing conservative political commentator Mark Steyn have asked the D.C. Superior Court to expedite his
case against climate scientist Michael Mann, mentioning a key witness died waiting for the trial to go to court.
Really nothing to answer there, they were looking at a very specific set of charges against Dr. Mann, which did not include the broader array of baseless charges
leveled against climate scientists by the likes of McI.
Massive counterclaims, in excess of $ 10 million, have just been
filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three - year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball.
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.
Otto explains Bush's failure to sign the Kyoto Protocol, «Climategate», Foxgate and the (minor) errors found in the IPCC reports, and Attorney General Ken Cucinelli's
crusade against climate scientist Michael Mann as defrauding taxpayers.
It also includes a specific response to many false points in Allegre's book (pdf document, 63 pages, in French) as well as a list of
denigration against climate scientists (including their control on scientific journals distorting the peer review process!).
The U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing on Thursday to examine the recent string of politically - motivated
attacks against climate scientists.
Unfortunately, and despite recent events demonstrating that popular
allegations against climate scientists are all wrong, HarperCollins still says on their web site that it's all the scientists» fault for not being clear («The one thing that is very apparent is that there is no clarity in the scientific and cartographic community on this issue», they write).
I don't think Jones» emails had any personally compromising data in them, but that was just luck; this illegal act of
cyber-terrorism against a climate scientist (and I don't think that's too strong a word) is ominous and frightening.