Job candidate tells Bloomberg to 'take this job and ….. ..' over global warming cover

Mr. Weston (shortly to be Dr. Weston) is to be congratulated for his stance, especially since his taking this stance may not be conducive to his employment by others. Unfortunately, taking a stance against the global warming politically-correct loons carries a risk that it will be used against him. There is a reason why so many of those who have spoken out against the loonery are retirees or have independent means. And it is not pretty…if you value quaint concepts such as freedom of speech.

Just cancelled my subscription … if they want to run crap like this in a business mag they can stuff their magazine. Before this I was often annoyed at the Economist’s GLO-BULL warming nonsense but lately Bloomberg has been off scale stupid with their shilling for AGW and this was the last straw or strike and they are out of my mailbox. To their credit they are refunding ~ $18 that was remaining on my subscription.

“””””……spen says:
November 8, 2012 at 7:34 am
Danny. You might have a Ph.D but not knowing how to sign off a letter correctly detracts from it.. Dear Sir/Madam should be signed off as ‘ Yours faithfully ‘ not ‘Yours sincerely’.
Dear Sir/Madam takes ‘faithfully’, but Name i.e Dear Mr Smith takes ‘sincerely’…….””””””
Well golly , what a fox pass ! I didn’t even read that letter to discover that horrid gaffe. I simply couldn’t get past the complete lack of a formal heading containing name and address of the sender; and not even including the date in the header.
Come to think of it, it didn’t even include a formal recipient heading ahead of the dull “Dear Sir/Madam”
Obviously, WUWT should conduct a formal letter writing seminar, so that such boorish behavior is not indulged in by WUWT readers.
As for that “Dear Mr. Smith” , if anybody adressed me that way, the last thing that I would believe, is that they said that with sincerity; much more likely in jest.
But let me guess; I predict that Danny did not do his PhD thesis in “Formal English letter Composition.” That’s the trouble with PhDs you tend to learn more and more about less and less.

In this case, Bloomberg’s dabbling in “Tabloid Climatology” has led to a proactive resignation.
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I’d be more impressed if he actually had the job and resigned. Failing to turn up to a job asssessment/interview, for a job he likely would not get, is hardly worth writing about.
And the outrage about being insulted is a bit rich from someone keen to tell other people how it is.

LazyTeenager says:
November 8, 2012 at 12:11 pm
In this case, Bloomberg’s dabbling in “Tabloid Climatology” has led to a proactive resignation.
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I’d be more impressed if he actually had the job and resigned….
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I did that after being asked to sign off as lab manager on falsified data (certificate of analysis) over a decade ago. I was blackballed and have not worked a day in industry since.
The cost of taking an honest stance is very high. Industry has a catch phrase for it – She/He is not a ‘team player’ – No other sentence is more deadly to your career. It means you put honesty and integrity above the come good (profit margin) of the corporation. That is why connecting corporations to capitalism is so laughable. They have a heck of a lot more in common philosophically with socialism. As Dwayne Andreas former CEO of ADM, the world’s largest corn processor said to Mother Jones

…global capitalism is a delusion. “There isn’t one grain of anything in the world that is sold in a free market. Not one! The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. People who are not in the Midwest do not understand that this is a socialist country.”
…”We’re the biggest [food and agriculture] company in the world,” Andreas explains. “How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.”
..”Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us?” Andreas continues. “What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?”
For all ADM’s size, the question now is not whether the government can survive without ADM but whether ADM can survive without the government. Three subsidies that the company relies on are now being targeted by watchdogs ranging from Ralph Nader to the libertarian Cato Institute.
The first subsidy is the Agriculture Department’s corn-price support program….
Of more benefit to ADM is the Agriculture Department’s sugar program….ADM has no interest in sugar. Its concern is to keep sugar prices high to prevent Coke and all the other ADM customers that replaced cane sugar with corn sweeteners from switching back….
The third subsidy that ADM depends on is the 54-cent-per-gallon tax credit the federal government allows to refiners of the corn-derived ethanol used in auto fuel. For this subsidy, the federal government pays $3.5 billion over five years. Since ADM makes 60 percent of all the ethanol in the country, the government is essentially contributing $2.1 billion to ADM’s bottom line. No other subsidy in the federal government’s box of goodies is so concentrated in the hands of a single company.
Robert Shapiro,….. describes ADM’s federally supported journey this way: “ADM begins by buying the corn at subsidized prices. Then it uses the corn to make corn sweeteners, which are subsidized by the sugar program. Then it uses the remainder for the big subsidy, which is ethanol.”
The grease–or perhaps oleo–that helps keep these kinds of programs going is the money Andreas, his family, his company, and his company’s subsidiaries provide politicians who have influence over agricultural policy. During the 1992 election, Andreas gave more than $1.4 million in “soft money” (which goes to party organizations rather than individual candidates, and is exempt from limits) and $345,650 more in contributions to congressional and senatorial candidates, using multiple donors in his family and his companies…. “These guys are state-of-the-art,” says Fred Wertheimer, the longtime Common Cause president who recently stepped down. “They play this game to the hilt.”

Bravo!! Please give Dr. Weston a 32oz sugary beverage of his choice.

mfo says
The personal qualities of Einstein are directly responsible for the theory of relativity which is why he said: “For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.”
Fair comment. I will amend the statement to: The personal qualities of Einstein have absolutely nothing to do with whether the theory of relativity is good science or bad science. It stands on it own.

Howskepticalment says:
November 8, 2012 at 2:03 pm
…The problem, IMHO, is that many individuals (as can be seen upstring in several instances) conflate judgements about individuals, corporates, policies and politics, on the one hand, with judgements about climate science on the other. The unfortunate result tends to be personal abuse of scientists rather than robust discussion about the scientific issues.
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You are incredibly naive.
Unless you are independently wealthly or can mange to put together your own research institute as Dr. Robinson has done with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, you are stuck with politics and money.
There has been a heck of a lot of very good ideas and data that has been buried because it was ‘inconvenient’ to those who control the paycheck/grant money. That is based on personal experience and the experience of several of my friends. In a word Honesty DOES NOT PAY being a ‘team player’ does.
If Einstein’s work had been a threat to someone rich and powerful it would have been buried.
Here is a recent example link It took a tabloid like The National Enquirer to get the information out.

…You published a synthesis of this work in The Medical Journal of Australia in 1985. Then did people change their thinking?
No, it sat there as a hypothesis for another 10 years. Some patients heard about it, but gastroenterologists still would not treat them with antibiotics. Instead, they would focus on the possible complications of antibiotics. By 1985 I could cure just about everybody, and patients were coming to me in secret—for instance, airline pilots who didn’t want to let anyone know that they had an ulcer.
So how did you finally convince the medical community?
I didn’t understand it at the time, but Procter & Gamble [the maker of Pepto-Bismol] was the largest client of Hill & Knowlton, the public relations company. After I came to work in the States, publicity would come out. Stories had titles like “Guinea-Pig Doctor Experiments on Self and Cures Ulcer,” and Reader’s Digest and the National Enquirer covered it. Our credibility might have dropped a bit, but interest in our work built. Whenever someone said, “Oh, Dr. Marshall, it’s not proven,” I’d say: “Well, there’s a lot at stake here. People are dying from peptic ulcers. We need to accelerate the process.”….

GC
I think we are on the same page. Everyone knows that vested interests seek to corrupt the science. For example, one only has to look at the well-documented efforts of the fossil fuel vested interests to stymie AGW science and effective AGW policies.
The point which I was trying to make is that, in the end, the science must stand or fall on its own merits. Trying to disprove the science by attacking personalities just muddies the water. (See upstring).