From Climate Depot: Fired for ‘Diverging’ on Climate: Progressive Professor’s fellowship ‘terminated’ after WSJ OpEd calling global warming ‘unproved science’
Professor’s fellowship ‘terminated’ after WSJ OpEd declaring ‘the left wants to stop industrialization—even if the hypothesis of catastrophic, man-made global warming is false’. Prof. Caleb Rossiter: ‘Just two days after I published a piece in the Wall Street Journal calling for Africa to be allowed the ‘all of the above’ energy strategy we have in the U.S., the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) terminated my 23-year relationship with them…because my analysis and theirs ‘diverge.’
IPS email of ‘termination’ to Rossiter: ‘We would like to inform you that we are terminating your position as an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies…Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of U.S. policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours’
In an exclusive interview with Climate Depot, Dr. Rossiter explained:
“If people ever say that fears of censorship for ‘climate change’ views are overblown, have them take a look at this: Just two days after I published a piece in the Wall Street Journal calling for Africa to be allowed the ‘all of the above’ energy strategy we have in the U.S., the Institute for Policy Studies terminated my 23-year relationship with them…because my analysis and theirs ‘diverge.’”
“I have tried to get [IPS] to discuss and explain their rejection of my analysis,’ Rossiter told Climate Depot. “When I countered a claim of ‘rapidly accelerating’ temperature change with the [UN] IPCC’s own data’, showing the nearly 20-year temperature pause— the best response I ever got was ‘Caleb, I don’t have time for this.’”
More here: http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/06/12/fired-for-diverging-on-climate-progressive-professors-fellowship-terminated-after-wsj-oped-calling-global-warming-unproved-science/
@richardscourtney, 1.31 am.
Sorry, Richard, but I must disagree. John from OZ has the picture, as does Scarface. Lord Christopher Monckton has the whole picture, though, on this site, he has not fully expounded it, so far as I know.
It is indeed a “Leftist = Communist” Agenda, working behind the “Green” Cloak of “sustainability”
Their concern for the environment is minimal. Their agenda is depopulation & control.
Read James Delingpole’s book “Watermellons”
Look up The Georgia Guidestones : ” Keep World population under 500,000,000″, carved in marble, anonymously. & it’s not about sustainability, it’s about control.
Reducing population from ~ 7 billion to ~ half a billion requires doing away with 13 of 14 of us.
That’s you, your children & grandchildren.
The lower echelons of the new “Green Religion” may sincerely believe they are saving the planet & the future of Humankind, but those at the top know the final agenda is a One World Totalitarian Govt.
[Off-topic, no 911 claims. .mod]
Go to http://www.informationclearinghouse.info for the costs, in both blood & money, for wars which are essentially depopulation & oil control wars.
Look into the “banning” of DDT, & the millions of Third World Lives that has cost.
Try this 7 min video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVeA07d2F_I
OR, put in : 5 Billion Human Beings to be Murdered – – New World…
Lord Monckton on video: Go to Youtube, & put in the search box :
Lord Monckton on United Nations Agenda 21
Start with the 51 min video : Agenda 21s Globalist Death Plan for Humanity.
It’s not just the climate our Govts are lying to us about, not by a looooong chalk.
Mods, you may edit this any way you see fit.
Regards,
John Doran.
The headline should have read, “Professor’s Followship terminated . . . “
Almost as if White American leftists are striving to keep the non White world down. That really is the most evil of all hypocrisy from the American left, telling the rest of the world (at least the darker skinned portions of) not to dare try to aspire to western living standards.
[No. Not going to publish 911 conspiracy theories here. .mod]
jdseanjd says:
June 13, 2014 at 3:31 am
Sorry, I forgot the Paul Craig Roberts reference. Please go to his article :
WTC Building 7 now a proven case of controlled demolition.
JD.
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I think this is the wrong forum …. try Prison Planet, or Skeptical Science, they love conspiracies.
richardscourtney says:
June 13, 2014 at 1:31 am
Friends:
Several people have asserted in this thread that promotion of the AGW-scare is motivated by opposition to ‘third word development’ or to ‘capitalism’. There are many clear motivations for promotion of the scare but I see no evidence that those oppositions are significant reasons for the promotion.
Decades of attempt to assuage the scare have convinced me that what some see as opposition to ‘third word development’ or to ‘capitalism’ are – in reality – opposition to industrialisation. The opponents are a modern form of Luddites and include people with a distorted and romantic view of ‘natural’ existence in the days when slaves fulfilled the functions now performed by machines.
The people who hold these anti-industrial views may not be evil, but implementing their views has evil effects.
Richard
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fair enough, in its way
theres some of us however who dont like industrialisation for the other reason
It leaves us without jobs, however boring or menial some folks might think they are..they were work and we got paid and had some pride in them and didnt end up in a dole line.
grape harvesting
used to employ 20 or 30 people for at least 8weeks in my old area. mechanised harvest one man one machine one week and none of us even got the tiny yearly cashflow ever again.
one man earns heaps now..and his machinery is a tax deduction. win win for him
many examples of the same, reason why rural jobs are scant and low paid even now.
and Good On the fella for speaking truth..he could consider coming to Aus?
we could do with some like him to support TA
“Because you have rejected this message,
relied on oppression
and depended on deceit,
this sin will become for you
like a high wall, cracked and bulging,
that collapses suddenly, in an instant.
It will break in pieces like pottery,
shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
for taking coals from a hearth
or scooping water out of a cistern.”
Isaiah 30, 12-14.
‘ r murphy says:
June 12, 2014 at 9:45 pm
J Ryan has raised a good point, would Rossiter still be advocating for IPS if they kept paying him? We are at a critical point in this saga and the world needs scientists to start speaking their conscience and stop worrying about their careers. When the truth is revealed their careers will be guaranteed.’
Did you not read the article? He got thrown out precisely because he DID speak his conscience.
“We are at a critical point in this saga and the world needs scientists to start speaking their conscience and stop worrying about their careers. ”
So easy to play fast and loose with other people’s lives and careers.
They call themselves the Institute for Policy Studies, and yet apparently they don’t have time for scientific data. That pretty well sums it up.
Chris
IPS does not fight poverty. They fight for grants to IPS to talk about poverty. Those promoting ‘climate justice’ are misguided at best, and frauds at worst.
From Rossiter’s WSJ piece …
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303380004579521791400395288
No need to worry. the president and I are working on classifying thinking as a dangerous pollutant and imposing huge fines on people who endanger humanity by doing it.
@richard S Courtney 1:31am.
Issac Asimov nailed this one. Dining next to a matriarch he showed surprise when she said that life was so much better when servants were available and affordable.
“But madam we would have hated it!”
“Why?”
“Because we would be the servants!”
The Institute for Policy Studies doesn’t want Africa to have cheap and plentiful energy. I wonder if they have an opinion about fixing the lights and energy infrastructure in Detroit …
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140530/OPINION01/305300004
Red Wings arena where energy is used to cover the rink with ice and heat the building at the same time. Shocking!
And alarmists wonder why their message is not getting out. Hello! You live in an echo chamber so you have no clue!
“Caleb, I don’t have time for this” = “I cannot defend my case, so instead I’ll shut down the debate.”
richardscourtney says:
June 13, 2014 at 1:31 am
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I consider that youn are being too kind, and possibly niaive.
I would suggest that if one can reasonably foresee that the effects of one’s actions is evil, even if one does not personally intend the evil effects, then one is evil since one obviously has a calous disregard for the welbeing of others, not caring that evil effects will ensue from one’s actions
A kind person would dissist from a course of action, in circumstances that it is reasonably foreseeable that hurt to others will ensue.
I suspect that they are well aware that the effects of their action is evil, but they feel that it is for the greater good, since without that action they envisage even greater harm will be done, and they are the ones who know best, and accordingly they should dictate what is done, or not done. They are the architypical beneficial dictator.
It’s not about the science, it was never about the science. Nonetheless, science is a powerful sword and a steady shield.
@John from Oz: The United States is not a democracy. It is a federal republic. You can’t fight to maintain something unless you already have it. The freedom of speech battle is already lost. Ask Mr. Cathy of Chik Fil A, former Miss America contestant Carrie Prejean, Paula Dean or Donald Sterling. In Mr. Cathy and Miss Prejean’s cases, they were asked if they supported gay marriage. For expressing their opinions they became targets of zealots who thought nothing of destroying their lives and in Mr. Cathy’s case, destroying his business. Neither one had ever campaigned against or actively opposed gay marriage. Paula Dean had made a racist comment 30 years ago, that was enough. As for Sterling, he was behaving irrationally for months. what kind of comments would you expect to hear from an irrational drunk?
Say just one thing that offends the wrong person and watch an angry mob relentlessly pursue your downfall.
I am not defending what any of these people did. I’m calling into question the way people responded to them. You can spend the rest of your life seeking to destroy the millions of people who disagree with you or you can call them ——-s and move on.
@- richard verney
“A kind person would dissist from a course of action, in circumstances that it is reasonably foreseeable that hurt to others will ensue.”
Unfortunately if a course of action is profitable and legal then even kind people will reject the claims that there is foreseeable harm and continue. The history of hard rock mining confirms that.
http://www.centerwest.org/publications/pdf/mines.pdf
Once again, Follow The Money.
The big bucks are on the alarmist side and you lose yours if you don’t toe the line, as exampled here.
But why? Because most research about anything is paid for by grants, mostly government grants. And it is easier to get research grants, government or private, if you’re studying something dangerous, like climate change or cancer or heart disease. This Prof threatened everyone else’s gravy train.
There is also the matter of huge money made in solar, wind and other alternative energy technologies. I am old enough to remember the 1973 oil crisis vividly. The Big Oil companies felt their futures threatened, and they invested heavily in alternative energy. This is why “Koch Brothers money” is such a joke among us and why a big oil company (Shell?) was one of the funding sources of the Climate Gaters.
The “Big Oil Companies” stand to make larger profits from other energy sources than oil.
ntesdorf says:
June 12, 2014 at 9:28 pm
We saw the same sort of activity in the Third Reich and in the former Soviet Union. The Warmistas are truly the inheritors of the Cloak of Fascism and Oppression of Thought.
Oh please, what a preposterous analogy. This is a left wing think tank, not the government. Do you really think someone who worked for Heartland would hang onto his/her job if he gave an interview with the New York Times in which he said AGW was real and that the world needed to take immediate action on CO2 emissions? Or someone working for the US Chamber of Commerce in an interview stating that free trade was a bad idea? Or someone working for the Gates Foundation who said that vaccinations caused autism? Of course not, they’d be gone in a minute.
richard verney:
re your post at June 13, 2014 at 4:28 am.
Please read my post you are answering again because it seems you do not recognise the great degree of agreement between us. My post at June 13, 2014 at 1:31 am is here and it says
That point is made by ozspeaksup in his post at June 13, 2014 at 3:44 am where he replies to me saying
My attitude to that is stated by Ed Moran at June 13, 2014 at 4:16 am who here writes
Prof. Caleb Rossiter was sacked as an Associate Fellow of the IPS because he refused to be an obedient servant of the IPS.
Richard
The IPS didn’t hire a scientist to advance science, they hired him to advance ideology. The instant he became more of a liability than an asset, out the door he goes. This is “climate justice” in action.