Why Doesn’t Boston Globe do funding story on UN IPCC & EDF Warmist Michael Oppenheimer? Scientist to the Hollywood Stars: Oppenheimer ‘was the holder of the ‘Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies’ at Environmental Defense Fund’
…Big problem for UN IPCC’s Michael Oppeheimer: With just over 70 authors listed on the SPM, he claims that ‘here we have thousands of them getting together and being able to agree on this high level of certainty’
…Retribution of the warmists!? Prof. Pielke Jr. asked to remove himself from journal board after ‘strong critique’ of ‘shoddy paper’ by Naomi Oreskes & UN IPCC’s Michael Oppenheimer!
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, has been formally asked to remove himself from the global warming journal Global Environmental Change, following his harsh critique of a study which appeared in the journal. Pielke Jr. is not a climate skeptic, but he has harshly critiqued many of his colleagues climate claims, particularly those on extreme weather. [Climate Depot note: More on Oppenheimer here and Oreskes here.]
The following is Prof. Pielke’s explanation of the situation:
“Welcome to the climate wars — retribution for stepping out of line? You be the judge.” – “Looks like a real tactical blunder by @NeilAdger , climate gatekeeping still in action.”
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Interesting Timing to be Removed from GEC Editorial Board – By Roger Pielke Jr.:
Five days ago I critiqued a shoddy paper by Brysse et al. 2013 which appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change. Today I received notice from the editor-in chief and executive editor that I have been asked to “step down from the journal.” They say that it is to “give other scientists the chance to gain experience of editorial duties.”
Over the past 20 years I have served on the editorial boards of about a dozen or so academic journals. I have rolled off some when my term was up, and continued for many years with others. I have never received a mid-term request to step down from any journal. My 6 years with the GEC editorial board is not long in academia, and certainly much shorter than many other serving members.
Are my critique and the request to step down related? I can’t say. It is interesting timing to be sure. Perhaps it is an odd coincidence. Perhaps not. I did reply by accepting their request and asking the following two questions which might help to clarify the terms of my release:
Could you tell me which other members of the editorial board are being asked to step down at this time? And also, could you tell how many others have served on the board 6 years or longer and remain on the board?
If I get a reply I will update this post.
UPDATE: I just checked the GEC editorial board from 2005, the year before I was invited to join ($ here). There are 13 members of the 2005 …
UN IPCC’s Michael Oppenheimer: I know CO2 is overheating the planet if there”s enough snow to use my sled or if there”s not enough snow to use my sled
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The Woman UN IPCC warmist Michael Oppenheimer answers to — Barbra Streisand — weighs in: ‘In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, I can’t comprehend how there are still climate change deniers out there’
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Scientist to the Hollywood Stars: UN IPCC’s Michael Oppenheimer ‘was the holder of the ‘Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies’ at Environmental Defense Fund’
Environmental Defense Fund hosted the Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies, the perch of scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who advocates buying up development rights in the Third World as a solution to global climate change.
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Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, was also a paid partisan of the environmental pressure group Environmental Defense. Update: Michael Oppenheimer was the holder of the “Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies” at the Environmental Defense Fund. Streisand explained: “My Foundation started supporting climate change work in 1989, when I donated a quarter of a million dollars to support the work of environmental scientist Dr. Michael Oppenheimer at EDF. Since then, I, and others have spent countless millions on this issue.”
Oppenheimer also proudly served as an advisor to former Vice President Al Gore on his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” and he has consistently defended the accuracy’s of Gore’s film. “On balance, he did quite well — a credible and entertaining job on a difficult subject,” Oppenheimer said of Gore’s film in 2007. “For that, he (Gore) deserves a lot of credit,” Oppenheimer added.…
AGU Physicist Norman Rogers laments AGU’s warmist bent: The American Geophysical Union and Climate Hysteria
Fundamentalist committee member Michael Oppenheimer has a history in the radical environmental movement. He was the holder of the Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies at the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Warmist Michael Oppenheimer on Sandy: ‘This was essentially a once-every-1,000-years storm’
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Warmist Michael Oppenheimer on Sandy: ‘So whether this one was 5% due to climate change or 1% or 10% — it’s interesting, it matters to a certain extent, but it’s not the whole story by any means’
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CO2 hysteria from CNN: ‘Superstorm Sandy was no freak, say experts, but rather a hint of a coming era when millions of Americans will struggle to survive killer weather’
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