UK Times Update: UN Climate Scientist Dr. Mike Hulme: Scientists who vilified a colleague for advising a think-tank are ‘blind to their own biases’
Prof Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate and Culture at King’s College London, said:
“The publishers of the journal concerned, IOP, express astonishment that the story of this rejected manuscript made front-page news. Of course it’s perfectly normal for scientific papers to be rejected for a whole variety of good reasons. But the reason it made front-page news in this case was because of the previous pressure brought to bear on Professor Bengtsson, from a variety of quarters including from other climate scientists, which made him resign his position as an academic advisor to the GWPF think-tank. This is the real story here: why certain climate scientists believe it’s their role to pass public judgement on whether a scientific colleague should offer advice to political, public or a campaigning organisations and to harass that scientist until they ‘fall into line’.
“This episode tells us a lot about how deeply politicised climate science has become, but how some scientists remain blind to their own biases.”…
‘THE NEXT CLIMATE SCANDAL?’
WSJ: ‘Scientific Authoritarians’: ‘The case for skepticism about climate scientists’
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303908804579564082072318084…
‘The new Climategate scandal’
http://www.humanevents.com/2014/05/16/the-new-climategate-scandal/…
Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘Mike Hulme, spot on as he often is: “the real story here …to harass that scientist until they ‘fall into line’
Mike Hulme, spot on as he often is: “the real story here …to harass that scientist until they ‘fall into line’” http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-claims-climate-research-was-suppressed/
https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/467385483107266560…
Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘Whatever climate bullies may say, Lennart Bengtsson is an accomplished scientist who has earned respect and thanks’
Whatever climate bullies may say, Lennart Bengtsson is an accomplished scientist who has earned respect and thanks–http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,6&q=lennart+bengtsson
https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/467336668337684480…
Mark Steyn: Silenced skeptic Bengtsson, ‘Whether they also left a polar bear’s head in his bed we shall discover in time.’
More @MarkSteynOnline: Re silenced skeptic Bengtsson, ‘Whether they also left a polar bear’s head in his bed we shall discover in time.’
‘Widespread worry over the suppression of scientific views’ – Leaked Memo On Climatology Exposes Growing Worry Within German Meteorological Society…’Unacceptable Unethical Developments’
Leaked Memo On Climatology Exposes Growing Worry Within German Meteorological Society…”Unacceptable Unethical Developments”
A reader/professor has sent me an internal memo he recently obtained from a meteorologist and member of the Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft [German Meteorological Society], abbreviated as DMG. Clearly grave concern is emerging over a large swath of the broader German meteorological-climatological community in the wake of the Lennart Bengtsson witchhunt.
The memo was intended to be published in the DMG reports, but never saw the light of day.
It reveals a growing and widespread worry over the suppression of scientific views among German Meteorological Society members. One of the authors of the memorandum wrote an e-mail to the reader who provided the copy to me. He writes:
A circle of mostly older colleagues of the Free University of Berlin, who very much reject the tone one finds in today’s field of climatology, has asked me to draft a memorandum on the subject and to publish it in the Reports of the German Meteorological Society. Shortened by a half and totally watered down, the memorandum appeared in the last issue. I now take the liberty to bring the original version to your attention.
Greetings and cordial asscoication yours, ************”
I’ve deleted the name to protect the source. What follows is the original, un-watered down version of the memorandum – translated in English:
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Memorandum
On the situation in the field of meteorology-climatology
Based on observations made for quite some time, and due to the current occasion (IPCC 5), colleagues in the meteorological circles have been witnessing with worry how certain developments are becoming cemented into their scientific fields (foremost climatology) which from a scientific point of view simply cannot be accepted and do not comply to their professional ethics.
These developments involve first of all something in the lines of a democratization of science: Everyone is allowed and should have a say in it. In meteorology-climatology every one includes a highly very visible army of organized, little known persons; in Germany this is almost the entire public! The changes that have taken place in science as a result have in our opinion (and that of others) led to very negative impacts on the quality standards of science. For example expressed and disseminated meteorological flaws can hardly be contained and cannot be corrected publicly at all. Yet our meteorological scientists do not speak up.
And it is hardly …
SCANDAL! Climate Scientists Suppressed Research Which Disagreed With Warming Theory
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/05/scandal-climate-scientists-suppressed.html…
Wacky Warmism Rebutted: Claim: DC under water? Not ‘if,’ but ‘when’ Due To Melting Antarctic Claims –
DC under water? Not ‘if,’ but ‘when’…
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrudgeReportFeed/~3/eSqSlH6RJck/District-under-water-Not-if-but-when
DC under water? Not ‘if,’ but ‘when’…(Top headline, 4th story, link)Related stories:GLOBAL WARMING SCIENTISTS COVERED UP SCEPTIC’S ‘DAMAGING’ REVIEW…PAPER: ‘Echo of Climategate’…’CLIMATE MCCARTHYISM’…
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