Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Michelle Malkin » The climate change [fraud] e-mails EPA doesn’t want you to see
CEI general counsel Sam Kazman has notified the EPA and requested that the internal communications and suppressed study be released to the public and added to the public record. Will another whistleblower be disappeared? Note especially this warning to the dissenting scientist: “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision… I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”
"Leading" scientists say urgent action needed
My generic distaste for the open letters from “scientists and experts” stems from the fact that these are used so well by the climate change deniers. When John Q. Public takes a look at an ad in his local newspaper and sees a list of people with the all-important Ph.D’s and M.S.’s and Dr.’s strewn about, I think he can be forgiven for thinking that those apparently smart people know what they’re talking about.

Unfortunately, that is not always the case. The climate change deniers have a particular skill at getting degree-carrying folks to sign on to skeptical pronouncements of climate change, but often those degrees have nothing to do with climate, oceanic, or earth sciences.
The Reference Frame: Alarmism in a math-phys department
I was surprised and disappointed that we couldn't agree about almost any of the basic methodological (and ethical) principles of science and almost any of the current technical data.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

EPA says "...The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed..."

- in other words, "the debate is over", how convenient.