Prominent Global Warming Skeptic Honored with Frederick Seitz Memorial Award

apologies for being o/t & congratulations to Dr. Idso. but this is the reason Gore is in Australia:
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http://www.acfonline.org.au/be-informed/climate-change/climate-reality-project

“…an international conference on global warming taking place July 7–9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
That’s a Heartland Institute bash, right? Just so everyones on the same page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute

Village Idiot says:
June 25, 2014 at 4:25 am
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I love the way trolls actually seem to believe that connecting something with Heartland automatically disqualifies it.
I’m surprised it didn’t try to bring in the Koch brothers as well.

I’m hopeful that Village Idiot and Claimsguy will have similarly caustic views on the IPCC conference in Paris next year…for nothing screams bias louder than taxes collected at gunpoint in order to fund a conference whose goal is to raise more taxes. Compare and contrast that to mostly self-funded Vegas ’14 where the goal is to better understand the science. Winning.

I ask, because to my eyes, if you will defend RJR for money you will do or say anything. I think that’s a disqualifying event.

Congratulations to Dr. Idso – its well deserved.

claimsguy says:
June 25, 2014 at 6:48 am
“I ask, because to my eyes, if you will defend RJR for money you will do or say anything. I think that’s a disqualifying event.”
To my eyes, a more serious disqualifying event would be to posthumously disparage a great scientist for free. You’re not getting paid to do this are you Claimsguy? Well into his 90’s, see how Seitz manhandled similar accusations from a likewise pube-stuck-in-throat-like attack brought on by none other than your taxpayer funded PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/seitz.html

Without bothering to Google it, didn’t John Adams represent British soldiers after the Revolution?

claimsguy says:
June 25, 2014 at 4:55 am
Ah, yes. Dr. Seitz. The very model of a good scientist gone bad. I’m sure RJR got great value out of him.

Why are you smearing Dr. Seitz?
Frederick Seitz, A.B. Mathematics, Stanford University (1932), Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University (1934), Proctor Fellow, Princeton University (1934–1935), Instructor in Physics, University of Rochester (1935–1936), Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Rochester (1936–1937), Research Physicist, General Electric Company (1937–1939), Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1939–1941), Associate Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1941-1942), Professor of Physics, Carnegie Institute of Technology (1942-1949), Research Professor of Physics, University of Illinois (1949-1965), Chairman, American Institute of Physics (1954-1960), President Emeritus, American Physical Society (1961), President Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (1962-1969), Graduate College Dean, University of Illinois (1964-1965), President Emeritus, Rockefeller University (1968-1978), Franklin Medal (1965), American Institute of Physics Compton Medal (1970), National Medal of Science (1973), (Died: March 2, 2008)
http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2006/04/vanity-scare.html
“To find out if the startling claim was true — that Seitz “directed a 45M tobacco industry effort to hide health impacts of smoking” — I called him at his apartment in Manhattan. Unless there is more to the story, the accusation appears to be a willful distortion, if not an outright lie.
“That’s ridiculous, completely wrong,” Seitz told me. “The money was all spent on basic science, medical science,” he said.
According to Seitz, the CEO of RJ Reynolds — the tobacco company — was on the board of Rockefeller University while Seitz was a full-time employee there. “He was not a scientist,” Seitz said of the executive, but he believed in supporting the University’s dedication to basic research — in a little over a century, Rockefeller University has had 23 Nobel Prize winners affiliated with it, in fields of medicine and chemistry. RJ Reynolds allocated $5 million a year to Seitz to direct basic research.
To figure out how to distribute the money, Seitz says he assembled some top folks in different fields of scientific research — such as James Shannon, the director of the National Institutes of Health for 13 years, and Maclyn McCarty, the legendary geneticist — to help direct the funds.
What kind of research did they support? Seitz mentioned the work of Stanley Prusiner, who won the Nobel prize for his research into prions (Prusiner even thanks Seitz and RJ Reynolds in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech which you can read here).
When I asked Seitz if he ever spent money to try to debunk a link between smoking and ill-health, he said no. When I asked him if he himself had ever denied a link between smoking and cancer, Seitz (who, remember, is almost 100 years old) again said no and told me “my father was a 19th century man, and even he told me from when I was young that there was a connection between smoking and cancer” and that “we often talked about the hazards of smoking.” In other words, Seitz was aware of the ill-effects of smoking for a very long time, and has never tried to deny that.“