IEEE Spectrum: U.S. National Parks [Allegedly] Threatened by Climate Change

Last year Spectrum had occasion to draw attention to cyber threats to Virginia's state computer systems. Now the focus is on climate change and Virginia's major tourist attractions, with the release last week of a report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council: Profile of Virginia's Special Places in Peril.
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At the briefing I naturally wondered why a Rocky Mountain organization was examining an Appalachian park and an Atlantic monument. The answer is that RMCO has been systematically examining the impact of climate change on major national parks, starting in the west, with special attention in one report to Glacier National Park. But there also is a not particularly hidden agenda. In the last year, the Virginia attorney general has been conducting something of a crusade against climate activism: He sought to take legal action in connection with the climategate research imbroglio, and he has taken a leading role in challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate carbon.

NRDC's Theo Spencer said in opening remarks last week that the report is meant to convey (among other things) that there are more constructive ways of addressing climate change than to conduct a "witchhunt against climate scientists." [Like conducting a $45 trillion witchhunt against trace amounts of an invisible, harmless, natural atmospheric gas?] And the report concerns issues, Spencer continued during the Q&A, that are unfolding "in DC policymakers' backyard."

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The point of Craven's argument is to reach a conclusion that we should support carbon-trading permits or some other incredible central-planning scheme that would fundamentally alter human society and economics without having to win on the science.

AGW promoters have good reason for steering people away from the science. Once you start to tug on that ball of yarn, the entire politically motivated fraud starts to unravel.

Is the Right Wing Anti-Science? | The Atlantic Wire

Making 'Support of Science an Ideological Litmus Test' This is, essentially, what is going on in the American right wing, argues blogger A. Siegel. "While climate denial is central to that litmus test, it is far from the only element." He notes that "there has been a growing gap between scientists and the Republican Party," with an odd poll of scientists in 2009 showing only 6 percent identified with that party.