The National Academy of Sciences creates virtual blacklists of scientists who dare to disagree with ‘the consensus.’
8th July 2010
With a recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the NAS seems to have comprehensively studied history and decided the proper role model for their institution is…Joseph McCarthy. The NAS has published a new “study” in the PNAS attempting to boost public trust in catastrophic climate predictions, which have been undermined recently by reports of scientific corruption, partisanship, skullduggery, and worse. Specifically, the “study” seeks to marginalize scientists who have dared to dissent from the “consensus” the United Nations (UN) asserts on climate science.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:19
Science is disappearing; science can’t get funding. What does get funding is pop-sci. It doesn’t require the thorough and intense scrutiny of science; just a few basic bits of information to define the pending “crisis” or “disaster”. Facts are boring; feelings sell advertising. The same is true for funding.
Given that, it is completely understandible that those getting funding do not want anyone interfering with the gravy train by introducing facts that contradict their position.
The general public – raised on television and now by iPad – has the attention span of a three year old. That is very useful to pop-sci in that no one ever gets upset that the pending disaster of the month didn’t happen. The “Ozone Hole” got lots of funding, still exists, and hasn’t destroyed life as we know it. We didn’t have the “Global Cooling Ice Age” predicted in the 1970’s. “Global Warming” is still generating revenue (and may spawn legislation that destroys the economy of several countries), and yet no islands have disappeared beneath the sea. (It’s so popular with the lib chicks that it may have caused Al Gore’s marriage to fail.) How many researchers are writing proposals to glom onto the BP oil spill at this very moment? My guess would be thousands. (Carl Sagan might have guessed “billions and billions”)
July 8th, 2010 at 12:31
There is no science in Global Warming. That is why these so-called scientists must use black lists. They cannot argue scientifically. So they just block any research or evidence that is contrary to their ‘belief system’ of AGW. Real science is accomplished by showing your work and daring people to replicate it. These AGW guys refuse to identify their datasets or discuss their methods. They cook the data and they drop stations that produce data that upsets their apple carts. AGW is not science. It is pretend science done by bullies who cook the data and then lie about it.