First Solar Chairman Dumps Half His Stock - By Drew Thornley - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Anyone else curious about First Solar chairman Michael Ahearn’s dumping of almost half of his shares of First Solar?

- Bishop Hill blog - Global warming grubbiness

"I am highly skeptical of the hype and claims," said Kevin Trenberth, who heads the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a university consortium. "The team has some good people but not the expertise required in certain areas, and purely statistical approaches are naive. I suspect they have an agenda."

The Koch donation, to many, confirms those suspicions. "Why would a scientist accept funding from an organization with no interest in advancing the science?" asked Benjamin Santer, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Hmm: I wonder why this DeSmogBlog post shows up in my RSS reader, but appears to have been deleted from DeSmogBlog itself?

Kochsuckers Question Scientific Consensus