A recent paper
by climate skeptic politician Viscount Christopher Monckton claimed scientists» model - based projections of climate change are overstated.
Not exact matches
There was a breathtaking (but not altogether surprising) amount of
climate misinformation provided both
by the Republican
politicians and the
skeptic scientists they invited as witnesses.
By effectively drawing a line around academia and calling it «science» and persuading all the press,
politicians, etc. to see those inside as legitimate to speak on subjects like
climate and those outside as therefore illegitimate, it means that no matter how qualified or experience we
skeptics are, that we will always be deemed as illegimate.
This exchange, from a listserv maintained
by the National Academy of Sciences, captured scientists discussing ways to more effectively counter the attacks on their credibility from
climate skeptics and conservative
politicians, which Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider, in the email dialogue, likened to a «smear campaign» of «neo-McCarthyism.»