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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Going to extremes

[JRHelgeson]

Greenpeace and the initial environmental movement was a truly noble cause. I am very happy to see the progress that has been made to clean up the pollution of streams and rivers, reduction of smog and sulfur emissions from factories and power plants, reduced tailpipe emissions, etc.

But now that we've 'solved' these problems, the Environmental Movement has become the Environmental Industry that is making more and more shrill claims that have little to no basis in either science or reality. They have to if the new employees of the Environmental Industry want to keep their jobs. The most absurd is that CO2 is causing global warming where all the evidence and hard proof shows that the rise of CO2 levels in the atmosphere is a lagging indicator of global climate change... a lagging indicator by 800 years. Yet they still claim that the link between atmospheric CO2 levels and global warming are directly connected - and leave their audience to conclude that the rise of CO2 caused the rise in temperature, when in fact the exact opposite is the case. Rising global temperatures will cause a gradual increase in CO2.

Look at it this way: to burn a carbon atom, you must combine 1 carbon atom with 2 oxygen atoms to make the CO2 molecule. If CO2 was in fact rising at the dangerous rate that some claim, we would actually be running out of oxygen. We should be screaming to save the oxygen! The thing is that the entire carbon myth is simply that, a myth.

When you overlap the global climate changes with the solar activity and sun spots, it is an absolutely perfect match. The trends overlap each other and fit together perfectly. Yet, somehow people REFUSE to believe that Global Warming is actually caused by, of all things, THE SUN!

Holy crap! The SUN is actually responsible for Global Warming? STOP THE PRESSES!!!

Don't listen to me though, decide for yourself:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792 811497638&hl=en