She wrote Attack on Coal Will Not Save Lives, and as President of DDP below, supports many
attacks against climate science, below.
In summary, the problem seems to be that the circling of the wagons strategy developed by small groups of climate researchers in response to the politically motivated
attacks against climate science are now being used against other climate researchers and the more technical blogs (e.g. Climateaudit, Lucia, etc).
Leiserowitz also attributes the rise in conservative belief to a reduction of
attacks against climate science and policy in Congress and on the campaign trail.
Not exact matches
And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied
against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to
attack the
science of
climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.
Jim: thanks so much for writing about the
attacks against climate scientists so cogently and eloquently in «The Inquisition of Climate Science&
climate scientists so cogently and eloquently in «The Inquisition of
Climate Science&
Climate Science».
First, the campaign in the 1920s
against Einstein's general theory of relativity provides an uncannily complete template for the conservative
attack on
climate science eight decades later.
I felt all this, and I wanted to fight the good fight
against the dark forces, especially when I saw them
attacking the part of
climate science that I was personally associated with.
Mhyre has been very poorly mentored by
climate «scientists» to commit illogical rhetorical
attacks rather than upholding true
science by exploring ALL models and testing them
against ALL data.
Her ad hominem
attacks of «
climate denier» and «irresponsible»
against Judith Curry are severely damaging
climate science, nullifying Mhyre's arguments.
However, he received lots of
attacks against him rejecting
climate science by conservative Republicans.
He has spent much of his time as the chair of the House
Science Committee going on the
attack against climate scientists.
Reacting in outrage and disgust
against the personal
attacks leveled
against them, and contriving to present their results in ways that could not be misread, the scientists had used phrases that their attackers twisted to support the claim that
climate science was nothing but a politicized sham.
UCS set the record straight in several recent instances of misinformation about
climate science, and fought back
against deliberate
attacks on
climate scientists, including:
... and, tempting as it may be to avoid facing our ignorance by engaging in ad hom
attacks against others — quantum mechanics or no quantum mechanics — without experimental confirmation
climate science has zero credibility.
As the 1990s progressed and the rear - guard action
against restrictions on smoking faded, The Advancement of Sound
Science Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk science» website began to carry material attacking climate change s
Science Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk
science» website began to carry material attacking climate change s
science» website began to carry material
attacking climate change
sciencescience.
Interestingly, he says»... the campaign in the 1920s
against Einstein's general theory of relativity provides an uncannily complete template for the conservative
attack on
climate science eight decades later.»