The Wall Street Journal has published one of the most offensive, untruthful, twisted reviews of what scientists think of climate change; the WSJ Lies about the facts and twists the story to accommodate the needs of head-in-the-sand industrialists and 1%ers; The most compelling part of their argument, according to them, is that the editorial has been signed by 16 scientists.<\/p>\n
The scientists who signed to WSJ editorial are:<\/p>\n
Claude Allegre, former<\/em> director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting<\/em> and the International Journal of Forecasting; Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism<\/em>, Rockefeller University; Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering<\/em> and National Academy of Sciences; William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; Michael Kelly, professor of technology<\/em>, University of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, former<\/em> head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; Rodney Nichols, former<\/em> president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer<\/em>, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator<\/em>; Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics<\/em>, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Henk Tennekes, former<\/em> director, Royal Dutch Meteorological<\/em> Service; Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.<\/p>\n Emphasis added to underscore the fact that this is a group of older and often retired weathermen, engineers, or otherwise not-climate-scientists.<\/p>\n ADDED (from Media Matters<\/a>)<\/p>\n Six Of The Scientists Have Been Linked To Fossil Fuel Interests. Roger Cohen and Edward David are both former employees of ExxonMobil. William Happer is the Chairman of the Board for the George C. Marshall Institute, which has received funding from Exxon. Rodney Nichols is also on the boards of the George Marshall Institute and the Manhattan Institute, which has been funded by Exxon and the Koch Foundations. Harrison Schmitt was the Chairman Emeritus of the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, which was funded by oil refiners and electric utilities in the 1990s, according to a Wall Street Journal report (via Nexis). Richard Lindzen also served on the Economic Advisory Council of the Center, was funded by ExxonMobil through the 2000s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Speaking of lists of scientists, here’s another one:<\/p>\n P. H. GLEICK D. J. MELTZER (i) The planet is warming due to increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere. A snowy winter in Washington does not alter this fact.<\/p>\n (ii) Most of the increase in the concentration of these gases over the last century is due to human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.<\/p>\n (iii) Natural causes always play a role in changing Earth’s climate, but are now being overwhelmed by human-induced changes.<\/p>\n (iv) Warming the planet will cause many other climatic patterns to change at speeds unprecedented in modern times, including increasing rates of sea-level rise and alterations in the hydrologic cycle. Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide are making the oceans more acidic.<\/p>\n (v) The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and freshwater ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (“Climate change and the Integrety of Science in Science Magazine, 7 May, 2010 328:689-691, downloaded January 27th, 2012.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Peter Gleick has written a commentary for Forbes that outlines the flaws in the WSJ piece: Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. You can also find a discussion of the WSJ piece by my old friend Peter Frumhoff, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal is trolling, and it is shameful. Almost everything they say in their piece is an out and out lie, easily falsified with even a cursory examination of the evidence. In fact, their piece is so bad that this is what we can say about the “16 scientists” who signed this letter: They are idiots. If any of those individuals actually read this piece as published and put their name on it, their credentials as scientists have just evaporated. If they were not climate scientists or working in some related field such as palaeoclimate or atmospheric chemistry or what have you, they should have known better and their ability to make even the simplest of judgements is now in serious question. If they signed this denialist missive just for political reasons, then their credentials as scientists are from this moment forth invalid.<\/p>\n That’s one reason that I put their names in this blog post above the fold. Let Google forever know who these jokers are. Yeah, I’m pissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Wall Street Journal has published one of the most offensive, untruthful, twisted reviews of what scientists think of climate change; the WSJ Lies about the facts and twists the story to accommodate the needs of head-in-the-sand industrialists and 1%ers; The most compelling part of their argument, according to them, is that the editorial has … Continue reading Two incontrovertible things: Anthropogenic Global Warming is Real, and the Wall Street Journal is Political Rag UPDATED<\/span>
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\nThat second list of scientists, much longer than the first, is attached to a letter about the shoddy and ignorant ways in which science is being treated by the press and by climate change denialists. That letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal but rejected. The letter was later published in Science. The crux of the letter can be found in the following excerpt:<\/p>\n