Q&A, May 2011: Jon Huntsman | Swampland

[q] You also believe in climate change, right?

[Huntsman] This is an issue that ought to be answered by the scientific community; I’m not a meteorologist. All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring. If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was causing cancer we’d listen to them. I respect science and the professionals behind the science so I tend to think it’s better left to the science community – though we can debate what that means for the energy and transportation sectors.

There Goes The Sun: Stocking Up On Fur Coats Yet?

What Sorokhtin predicted in 2008, based on the latest data from the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, is that a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.

And as the Vietnamese buffalo are finding out, he’s right so far.

Richard Malotky: The climate religion? I just can't believe » Redding Record Searchlight

Before I begin, let me go on record that I am down with the whole idea of reducing reliance on fossil fuels. My motorcycle gets 45 mpg, my wife drives a hybrid, and we have recycled since freshman year in college, before recycling was convenient or easy. Since our nation seems obsessed with spending billions or more on the biggest science fraud in recorded history, a brief review of the fraud and the facts is in order.
...there are rewards for the so-called scientist who joins this religion.

I can think of three right off: tenure (basically a job with benefits for life), increases in grants for research, and the mutual admiration society that permeates many of our halls of higher learning.

Get some data that doesn’t fit your hypothesis? Lose it, and get a bigger government grant. Phi Jones, the English researcher at the center of the e-mail scandal, got $19 million in government grants from 2000 to 2006. That is six times the ammount he got from 1990 to 1999. Under the current House bill being considered, NASA gets $1.3 billion, NOAA $400 million, and the National Science Foundation $300 million. Any wonder why these scientists are on board? Consensus my butt.

Laudable Lonnie Thompson (4): Doug Craig's blog

he "has been awarded 53 research grants from the NSF, NASA, NOAA and NG..."