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Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics

Posted by samzenpus on from the believe-it-or-else dept.

Penguinisto writes "Apparently in the Senate, at least one scientist wants to put a permanent stop to any arguments over Global Warming. The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming."

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  1. Censorship by it0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How can a scientist be al for censoring?? That said, all the manipulation, lobbying ,etc against known facts should be stopped. So I guess they want to fight corruption with censorship... only in the USA...

  2. Weatherchannel by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where exactly in the meterologist pecking order does the "Weather Channel's most prominent so-on and so-forth" go?

  3. Re:Still the wrong way by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I have no problem with people discussing anything they like, anywhere.

    I think it's ridiculous to believe that sort of thing advances science. It doesn't. There's exactly one place where scientific discussion advances, and it's in peer reviewed scientific journals. Period.

    If the weather guys (or anybody) have something to contribute to the scientific discussion, they should write a paper and have it published. Otherwise, they don't count.

    What you're talking about is educating the masses on science. That's fine too, but whoever wants to do that has no business mixing in their own personal views, or pretending that by doing so they're advancing scientific debate.