‘Are you now or have you ever been a climate skeptic?’Steven Hayward is proud to be one the Grijalva 7
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: @JunkScience: Scientist @curryja: ‘Looks like it is ‘open season’ on anyone who deviates even slightly from the climate consensus’ bb
http://judithcurry.com/2015/02/25/conflicts-of-interest-in-climate-science/…
White House: Don’t mention temperature when talking about global warming
In its guidance, the administration wrote:
In light of the difficulties in attributing specific climate impacts to individual projects, [Council on Environmental Quality] recommends agencies use the projected [greenhouse gas] emissions and also, when appropriate, potential changes in carbon sequestration and storage, as the proxy for assessing a proposed action’s potential climate change impacts.
Why is that? Federal environmental assessments will likely show regulations have a negligible impact on the environment in terms of temperature rises, sea level rises and such.
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“In other words, it would prove that the assessment of climate change impacts of federal actions, as directed by the CEQ, to be a complete and utter waste of time,” writes Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger.
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/02/25/white-house-dont-mention-temperature-when-addressing-problem-of-global-warming/#JQhoVG2E2QQSim2x.99…
‘McCarthyism Not Dead’: ‘If you dare to disagree with any part of Obama’s strategy, we will come after you’
McCarthyism Not Dead
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/mccarthyism-not-dead/
By Paul Homewood Others have covered Roger Pielke Jnr’s run in with US Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) who is the ranking member of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Anyone who has not seen it, Roger has it on his blog here. But just to bring home Stalinist nature of the “investigation”, I copy below the actual letter sent by Grijalva to the president of Pielke’s university. http://democrats.naturalresources.house.gov/sites/democrats.naturalresources.house.gov/files/Roger%20Pielke%2C%20Colorado.pdf The threat is clear. If you dare to disagree with any part of Obama’s strategy, we will come after you. As Roger concludes: The incessant attacks and smears are effective, no doubt, I have already shifted all of my academic work away from climate issues. I am simply not initiating any new research or papers on the topic and I have ring-fenced my slowly diminishing blogging on the subject. I am a full professor with tenure, so no one need worry about me — I’ll be just fine as there are plenty of interesting, research-able policy issues to occupy my time. But I can’t imagine the message being sent to younger scientists. Actually, I can: “when people are producing work in line with the scientific consensus there’s no reason to go on a witch hunt.” When “witch hunts” are deemed legitimate in the context of popular causes, we will have fully turned science into just another arena for the exercise of power politics. The result is a big loss for both science and politics.
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Dem ‘Witch Hunt’ Forces Scientist Out Of Global Warming Research
…‘NY Times, Greenpeace Smear Warming Skeptic Dr. Willie Soon’
…UK Group Calls On Governments To Overhaul ‘Missionary’ UN IPCC: ‘IPCC has lost its scientific objectivity’
…Scientists Say Great Lakes Ice Could Mean Cool Spring
…Paper: Former UN Climate chief Pachauri’s ‘career in meltdown’
…Al Roker Tells Larry King: Snowstorms Are Due to ‘Climate Change’ – ‘Is this all part of climate change?’ asked King. ‘I think it is,’ Roker replied.
“We’ve been in a pattern now where five weeks in a row, there’s been a storm that comes up and re-forms off the Mid-Atlantic/New England coast and dumps a ton of snow,” said Roker. “Boston as of this point is number two snowiest winter.”
“Is this all part of climate change?” asked King.
“I think it is,” Roker replied.
“You can’t point to any one event and say this is climate change,” Roker continued. “But what climate change opens the door for and allows for are more extreme swings of weather. So while you’ve got this ongoing drought out in California, there’s been almost no snowpack, no snowfall in the Sierras, it barely has rained, yet you’ve got monumental forest fires. Here in the East you’ve got brutal cold. Yet globally January was the warmest month on record. So there’s all these swings that are happening. Climate change makes that more possible.”
What’s behind it, King asked.
“You’ve got greenhouse gases building up, you’ve got melt at the polar ice cap,” said Roker. “Everything’s connected. And when you start changing that balance, nature doesn’t like an imbalance.”…