On september 27, and headline article was posted on the front page by Jerome J. Schmitt, American Thinker. Here is a quote from the first paragraph:
"MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions used Stalinist tactics to subvert, suborn and corrupt a whole branch of science... "
This is almost to the level of conspiracy theory. People write this sort of thing all the time, but why would a respectable organization put this on the front page of their site? Another example from Lord Chrisopher Monckton on Sept 14:
"An extraordinary series of postings at www.climateaudit.org, the deservedly well trafficked website of the courageous and tenacious Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre, is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cynicism that is rife among the alarmist climate scientists favored by the UN?s discredited climate panel, the IPCC."
What I am seeing here is the typical name-calling that is used by the conservative end of the political spectrum. Clearly McIntyre is liked by Monckton, so he is described as "courageous". The implication is that McIntyre is risking his life to measure some temperatures, which I highly doubt. If the measurements are made methodically, then there is nothing that the scientific community would love better than a set of clear data that is a challenge to explain.
Politicization - My take is that these guys don't like the message, so they are doing what comes natural: blaming the messenger.
Corrections on
Cooling estimates
: Wong, T., and Wielicki, B. (2008). Unscrambling the cause of recent ocean cooling with net radiation observations from the CERES instrument on the Terra satellite. (pdf). The Earth Observer, 20(1), 16-19.
Willis, J. K., Lyman, J. M., Johnson, G. C, and Gilson, J. (2007). Correction to ?
Recent cooling of the upper ocean
,? Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L16601.
Example Rhetoricon IceCap.us
On september 27, and headline article was posted on the front page by Jerome J. Schmitt, American Thinker. Here is a quote from the first paragraph:
"MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions used Stalinist tactics to subvert, suborn and corrupt a whole branch of science... "
This is almost to the level of conspiracy theory. People write this sort of thing all the time, but why would a respectable organization put this on the front page of their site? Another example from Lord Chrisopher Monckton on Sept 14:
"An extraordinary series of postings at www.climateaudit.org, the deservedly well trafficked website of the courageous and tenacious Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre, is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cynicism that is rife among the alarmist climate scientists favored by the UN?s discredited climate panel, the IPCC."
What I am seeing here is the typical name-calling that is used by the conservative end of the political spectrum. Clearly McIntyre is liked by Monckton, so he is described as "courageous". The implication is that McIntyre is risking his life to measure some temperatures, which I highly doubt. If the measurements are made methodically, then there is nothing that the scientific community would love better than a set of clear data that is a challenge to explain.
Politicization - My take is that these guys don't like the message, so they are doing what comes natural: blaming the messenger.
Jason Satellite
New article " New satellite indicates cycle of global cooling