On the Heartland Controversy

Ignored in all this is, however, a larger and even more serious issue – the growing effort to drive the market (and market-friendly voices) from the marketplace of ideas.  The left has found that their statist alliances – trial lawyers and environmentalists, unionists and consumer groups – have been powerful in advancing their agenda.  They’re not eager to see economic liberals do the same.

Note their systematic ideological-cleansing program:  no one with any business links serving on a government policy advisory group; no one with a business background to serving in government; pejorative labeling in academic journals of any business funded research; banning academics funding by business; passing stockholder resolutions against companies assisting pro-market policy allies; providing financial aid to our groups or of even interacting cooperatively with us (e.g. the Heartland crime).

If these efforts succeed, then the only legitimate voices in the policy debates will be crony capitalists and statist intellectuals. A serious threat and one that the Heartland incident should alert us to.

LAT Reporter Worries Over Gleick Heartland Doc Theft's Impact on Acceptance of 'Scientific Consensus' | NewsBusters.org

That Banerjee's report is as flawed as it is would appear to be driven by a cultural problem at the Times betrayed by a Monday editorial that is so over the top it deserves a separate post which will come later today. Yes, I realize that most papers do a reasonably good job of keep the people who work on news and those who write editorials separate, but readers will see that the editorial's positions are so far from reasonable that, at least on climate issues, the wall might as well not be there.

Democrat Congressman tries moving ‘Deniergate’ spotlight back to Heartland | JunkScience.com

Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijavla urges investigation of Heartland-Indur Goklany-Department of Interior relationship.

IPCC Climate Science Failure Requires Someone to Blame

Recently, Anne Thompson, professor of meteorology at Penn State accused the Canadian Government of failing its obligations to world climate.

It is unthinkable that data collection is beginning to shut down in this vast country, in some cases at stations that started decades ago.

Apparently Thompson doesn’t know that bureaucrats at Environment Canada (EC), as members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are responsible for reduced data collection.