In a way, it was the precursor to Climategate — the same deceptive, phony
charges against climate scientists.
Not exact matches
The Wall Street Journal leads the campaign
against climate science, writing editorials
charging that
scientists are engaged in a massive conspiracy.
NASA's top
climate scientist has already called for them to be tried on
charges of «crimes
against humanity,» and Senators Pelosi and Boxer can't be far behind.
James E. Hansen, the NASA
climate scientist who has become an outspoken campaigner
against coal burning, was among 31 protesters arrested on
charges of obstructing officers and impeding traffic during a protest
against mountaintop mining.
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.
Virginia Attorney General and global warming denier Ken Cuccinelli has been rebuffed by a state Circuit Court judge who ruled today that Cuccinelli's politically -
charged subpoena
against the University of Virginia and
climate scientist Michael Mann lacked an «objective basis.»
«But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report — the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and
against a human influence over the
climate — were changed or deleted after the
scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text...» — Dr. Frederick Seitz commenting on the IPCC Second Assessment Report, The Wall Street Journal, June 12, 1996
Last month, a man by the name of Jagadish Shukla (along with several other
scientists) sent a letter to the President and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding that RICO
charges — that is, «racketeering, influenced and corrupt organization»
charges — be brought
against so - called «
climate deniers,» as though those who disagree with the theory that global
climate change is inherently man made and undeniably catastrophic, were joined together in a conspiracy that amounts to organized crime.
Yet the very person whose past is exposed is making allegations of deceit and manipulation of evidence, use of propaganda
against climate scientists and the IPCC, the NAS and other science orgs, and these
charges stand and are repeated!
If a
climate scientist of the activist / advocate stripe doesn't feel some cognitive dissonance over their own personal carbon footprint, well it is difficult to defend
against a
charge of hypocrisy.