We have the ongoing Wegman and the Mashey/DeepClimate “Copygate dustup” at Fairfax based George Mason University, now we have even more going on in Virginia. It seems we have dueling witchhunts.
Exhibit A: The usual angry rhetoric over some MediaMatters OpEd:
Exhibit B: Now we have a new investigation in the making:
Story here
I suppose witch-hunts are in the eye of the beholder.
when the government funds skeptics them Waxman can investigate … until then not so much …
I’m pretty certain that Dr. Michaels has disclosed his funding and his work … can Mann say the same ?
… and when it is found that the AGW sceptics are not funded by the “evil” petro-chemical industries, what are these accusatory buffoons going to think of next?
This is bigger
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350206/BBC-propaganda-machine-climate-change-says-Peter-Sissons.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
looks like we have a whistleblower at the BBC which proves we have been 100% spot on all along concerning BBC bias hahaha
In the not too distant future many of the self-proclaimed “climate scientists” and their paymasters will be sitting around, shivering, dribbling and having their bottoms wiped, wishing, if they have any brains left, that they had spent their lives and money on honest scientific endeavour, such as finding cures for all the appalling ailments that await them.
Skeptics got Industrial funding?
I did not know that.
What industry is funding skeptics?
Must be one that is not emitting any CO2.
Which is that again?
The only “industry” that I can think of that does not at least exhale CO2 might be the Funeral folks, and then it is only the customers.
(grin)
Just learned that the guy in charge of the NOAA CO2 record is a 9/11 truther, look who signed this letter:
http://spryeye.blogspot.com/2008/11/doctor-bob-mcfarland-md-passes-at-78.html
“What is it with Virginia?”
Virginia is next door to D.C.
Cross-fire investigations… some innocent people are going to get hurt… let me guess… the taxpayers!
If the same investigation will also show how much money “Big Oil” has directed into the campaign coffers of Waxman and his cronies, I’ll go for it. Note that he chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Fascinating. From the Media Matters piece we learn how many people are content to comment knowledgably on Climategate without ever actually having read any of the emails or documents — similar, probably, to the number of people who are content to trust the IPCC without ever actually having read any of its “assessments” — and from The Hill we learn that the only congressman who brags about his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, the only congressman who actually looks like a pig, instead of only acting like one, actually apparently really is stupid enough to believe his own rhetoric.
Fascinating.
Hmm – I’m a skeptic so can I join the skeptic industry? I’ll take a 100k advance from whoever is paying. Please! 🙂
Quality, and if you live in th eUK you’ll know the name.
stephan says:
January 24, 2011 at 3:03 pm
This is bigger
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350206/BBC-propaganda-machine-climate-change-says-Peter-Sissons.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Waxman just wants assurances that the money is green.
Desperate to disprove the science behind climate change? 1) My understanding of the theory of advancing an hypothesis is that trying to disprove it is a critical part of the process. 2) I’m not aware of any reputable skeptic who does not accept and embrace the ever changing climate. Personally I’d be quite alarmed if the climate failed to change for any length of time. It’s never done that before. As for why the climate changes, there’s ample reason to discuss that, and nobody yet has solved the problem.
Perhaps there should be a global shunning of those who argue that there is nothing to gain by these discussions. Oh – wait. That’s what they’re already doing! /sarc
HoratioHypotenuse …wow! Does Pieter Tans really associate with the group including Evan Ravitz?
I personally had a run in with Evan several years ago when he called and asked to speak with my 11 year old daughter. She was with friends at a birthday party outing on Pearl Street mall in Boulder, where Evan was a busker, and somehow they met.
Ah, so now congress is spending its’ time investigating alleged guilt by…. association?
I’m so glad we’re running multi-trillion-dollar deficits to get this kind of quality work from our elected liars.
This video gives a glimpse into the political nature of Rep. Waxman. It’s particularly interesting starting at 2:34 of the video:
Jeff says:
January 24, 2011 at 2:52 pm
when the government funds skeptics them Waxman can investigate … until then not so much …
The more politicians get involved out in the open with global warming the more the average person will catch on to the true colors of global warming.
Waxman is the former chair of the House Global Warming Cabal (and several committees too). A man with a small mind and a big mouth, whose foot can’t seem to stay out of the latter.
Thanks to all those Americans who voted for the other party, we now get him back in opposition, where he has little power (whew!), but still have the same small mind and big mouth.
OK, the title is cute. But Waxman is not from Virginia and he is the offending party. How about the title “What is it with Waxman?” Or better, “What is it with Waxman’s Compulsion for Intimidation?” Given the Democrats’ propensity for self-destructive acts, all their opponents need do is publicize what the Democrats are doing.
Huh, odd, I find myself siding with Waxman in that video. Why wouldn’t a man from the EPA disclose what he speaks to the president about? If you ask me, it’s executive privilege run amok. Now that video was taken during the Bush Administration, so likely Waxman was trying to make the Bush administration uncomfortable in some way about how the EPA was being run. That cannot excuse the refusal to disclose what was discussed with the president with the elected representative body (regardless of how impure their motives may be).
You don’t want to live in a world where executive-appointed bureaucrats do not answer to congress, trust me on this.
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What is it with Virginia?
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It has a massive tick attached to it on its NE border.
The solution to shutting down misguided climate scientists on the government payroll is to tie their pensions to the accuracy of their predictions. I mean give them 25-30% but anything beyond that start docking their pensions. For example, if by the time they start collecting their pensions they had predicted temperatures to be 1 degree warmer but in fact they had only increased 0.2 degrees, dock ’em 80% – 30% = 50% of their pensions! If temperatures actually go down then they should owe the government money (since obviously the pay their earned while working wasn’t deserved!). If they can’t afford to pay then it should be scientific experiments for the lot of them!
JohnWho said, “The only “industry” that I can think of that does not at least exhale CO2 might be the Funeral folks, and then it is only the customers.”
No, no, my friend. Do you realize how much CO2 is produced by a cremation? I suspect that countries that have substantial numbers of cremations, like India, are contributing hundreds of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year – but I bet you won’t see Pachauri proposing doing away with cremations!
As far as Waxman, he is a person to ignore – jut a legend in his own little mind.