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Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed?
sycodon writes "Global Warming has become more than just a scientific issue and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some. However, despite all the hoopla from Hollywood, Politicians and Science Bureaucrats, there is another side, but it's being suppressed according to Richard Lindzen, an Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT. From the article: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.'"
People claiming there isn't global warming going on are labeled (not libeled) industry stooges and hacks because they indeed are such. Global warming is about as solid a theory as the Earth going around the Sun. Carbon-emitting industry does throw plenty of money to trumpet what it wants. Put the two together and you'll find hacks willing to trade what's left of their integrity for some money. Politicians do it all the time. I'm actually surprised that so few scientists are willing to bite.
Has anyone else read this? :-)
I think it's beginning to sound more and more pertinent...
This is why it's important not to have Capitalist control over funding; anything unprofitable - which is of course entirely orthagonal to truth or falsehood - naturally, to a lesser or greater extent, tends to be suppressed. ..
Capitalists inherently controls capital; to give the Capitalist democratic power is to provide it with a forceful means to implement its own ends. This is one of the reasons why its so vital to keep the Capitalists out of democratic activity; because of the danger of the abuse of that democratic power.
There. If fixed it for you.
Your monster has nothing to do with Democratic freedom and everything to do with capital. Including this muddling of politics with science. A true Government of the People for the People will pursue science with indifference to the results. On the other hand, a plutocratic state (the present state of USA) will supress any idea, science, movemnet or opinion that threatens capitalist status quo.
i'm not going to do a google search for you, but if you want to just log in to ScienceDirect from any reputable university or college alumni account, you can do so.
all my sources are public scientific papers and public scientific books, freely available at any reputable college or university.
i stand by my statements.
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