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Date Posted: 12:35:59 03/12/07 Mon In reply to: Mo' Green 's message, "Wow, another unsubstantiated, uncollaborated rightwing whine in post w/o a link. Somebdody ought to be shot." on 11:31:20 03/12/07 Mon http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen211.xml I thought you'd be intelligent enough to find it yourself from the heading of The Sunday Telegraph from the UK but I was mistaken. >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 ] |