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| Subject: Wow, another unsubstantiated, uncollaborated rightwing whine in post w/o a link. Somebdody ought to be shot. | |
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Author: Mo' Green |
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Date Posted: 11:31:20 03/12/07 Mon In reply to: Oropan 's message, "Death threats" on 07:56:34 03/12/07 Mon Such victim hood. Good thing they have their AEI checks from Exxon to comfort them. >Scientists threatened for 'climate denial' >By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph >Last Updated: 12:24am GMT 11/03/2007 > > > >Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate >change have received death threats and claim to have >been shunned by the scientific community. > >They say the debate on global warming has been >"hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, >scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all >questioning about the true environmental impact of >carbon dioxide emissions. > >Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the >University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five >deaths threats by email since raising concerns about >the degree to which man was affecting climate change. > >One of the emails warned that, if he continued to >speak out, he would not live to see further 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 sceptic because all >scientists should be sceptics, 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." > >Last week, Professor Ball appeared in The Great Global >Warming Swindle, a Channel 4 documentary in which >several scientists claimed the theory of man-made >global warming had become a "religion", forcing >alternative explanations to be ignored. > >Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science >at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - who also >appeared on the documentary - 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." > >Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, agreed. He >said: "The Green movement has hijacked the issue of >climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only >way to deal with the problem is to start micro >managing everyone, which is what environmentalists >seem to want to do." > >Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: >"Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by >stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could >not have got funding under the present system." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Here's your link | Oropan | 12:35:59 03/12/07 Mon |