Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Forrest Kyle writes "A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has received multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. '"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor. "I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal." Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...] recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."'"

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[andy314159pi]

Stop with the " global warming is a political agenda driven conclusion" crapola like this. It's totally unacceptable. The mechanism for carbon dioxide IR trapping has been known since 1935 and it's not up for debate.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Accepting that we know nothing at all is the first part of becoming humble enough to actually SOLVE the problem instead of merely PREDICTING that there will be a problem. It's the difference between being a scientist and an engineer.

To get back on track, we're still arguing about the predictions and even *some* of the causes. But other causes and effects have now moved into the past- and are certain fact. Why not do what we can about the FACTS and leave the rest until it becomes FACT? You might just avoid the prediction that way (where if we do nothing, we'll hit the prediction in the worst possible way).

In other words, the time for DEBATE is over, and it's stupid to keep demonizing the other side. The time for ACTION has arrived.