The Blackboard » Outside Organization: Would you hire them?

I think UEA is going to regret the fact that people now know they hired Outside Organization to deal with flak during climategate.

The fact that the project seems to have been headed by the now arrested Neils Wallis may make the revelation UEA hired spin doctors a bit embarrassing.
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Still, I still can’t help wondering how much that might have cost UEA; I didnt find any clues in comments. I googled around I found how much Wallis charges other clients:

But Wallis also maintained his own PR company, Chamy Media, which was retained by the Metropolitan Police from October 2009 until September 2010 to “provide strategic communication advice and support.” He was paid £24,000 for two days work a month, equivalent to £1,000 a day.

That’s pricey.

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Skepticism: Controversial speaker Fred Singer says that global warming and climate science 'bunk' | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

“There’s no scientific review on blogs, it’s all a matter of opinion,” the audience member said. “Peer-reviewed scientific journals are the gold standard for science.”

“No, they aren’t,” Gray said. “They are not the gold standard. Why do you think they’re the gold standard?”

“You don’t vote in science,” Singer said, criticizing peer review.

CSU atmospheric science professor Scott Denning interrupted, saying he’s skeptical and needs a high degree of evidence to believe a claim that runs contrary to common sense.

“So, you know, you don’t really think humans cause climate change; we think heat causes climate change,” he said. “We know that burning fossil fuel produces CO2, we know that CO2 emits heat. Now most people know that heat warms things up.”