Climate Change and the Black List
On June 21, 2010, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an article, “Expert credibility in climate change”. The paper’s stated purpose was to compare the credibility of scientists who are skeptical of human-caused global warming with those who accept it. One of the paper’s authors, James Prall, also maintains a blog where he has published the full list of skeptical scientists.
As far as I can tell, the article’s actual goal, far more ugly and insidious, was to create a blacklist of global warming skeptics, which can then be used as a sledge hammer to destroy their reputations and careers as well as make it difficult if not impossible for them to publish in scientific literature.
Very ugly and stupid. Roy Spencer, climate scientist, sums it up nicely. So does researcher Roger Pielke Jr.
Fortunately, it appears in general that the blacklist is not getting a lot of play in the press. However, here is a perfect example of how this list can and was intended to be used to smear and discredit any scientist who expressed skepticism about global warming.
It is downright disgusting that any respected news organization would give this blacklist such enthusiastic coverage.
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On June 21, 2010, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an article, “Expert credibility in climate change”. The paper’s stated purpose was to compare the credibility of scientists who are skeptical of human-caused global warming with those who accept it. One of the paper’s authors, James Prall, also maintains a blog where he has published the full list of skeptical scientists.
As far as I can tell, the article’s actual goal, far more ugly and insidious, was to create a blacklist of global warming skeptics, which can then be used as a sledge hammer to destroy their reputations and careers as well as make it difficult if not impossible for them to publish in scientific literature.
Very ugly and stupid. Roy Spencer, climate scientist, sums it up nicely. So does researcher Roger Pielke Jr.
Fortunately, it appears in general that the blacklist is not getting a lot of play in the press. However, here is a perfect example of how this list can and was intended to be used to smear and discredit any scientist who expressed skepticism about global warming.
It is downright disgusting that any respected news organization would give this blacklist such enthusiastic coverage.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
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Warmth can be good
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Climate news
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-soil-based-carbon.html
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Here is how the left will try to change us
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-population-policy-solution-world-problems.html
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Sociologists at play
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-winner-curse-social.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-gangster-lifestyles-young-people-dialogue.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-violence-contagious-members-italian-mafia.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-politically-ceos-differently-transparency.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-politics-worst.html
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Jeff Wright: I have asked you previously to not bomb BtB with comments filled with dozens of links. Two or three per comment is fine, but 20 or 30 is not only useless (almost no one will read them) but just one level above spam.
You did this twice today, the comment above and a second that was sent to moderation. I have deleted that second comment for my reasons cited above.
Please control yourself in the future. If you don’t, you might find all your work wasted when I delete your such link blasts routinely.
Sadly, science has become very Machiavellian and corrupt. The truth and fact appear not to be important anymore. Those that call out the corrupt are soon assassinated by smear campaigns to completely ridicule, destroy their reputation and careers for life. (not only restricted to the science professions)
“Global Warming” has a nefarious agenda, it’s all about money and global power as usual. Won’t be long until we get a “carbon tax”.
In reality yes, the planet is naturally warming up as we finally exit the last ice age. Sure, we don’t help via senseless industrial waste in the name of a few fast disposable consumer $$$, but, volcanoes have done more damage than the entire industrial era did.
I’m all for cleaning up our act but, let’s do that with some actual intellect rather than manipulative bankster propaganda and outright bs fake “woke protest groups” who are clearly on somebodies payroll.
What is their goal, to freeze time forever and stop the natural Milankovitch season cycles ?
Worried about Co2, plant some trees rather than cutting them all down for several centuries. Co2 is plant food after all. Plant food closer to home rather than pointless imports from thousands of miles away. We should only import what we cannot grow locally.
Much of the current pollution is 100% avoidable. We used to make products to last a lifetime a 100+ years ago, we need to get back to that mentality. I found a toaster from around 1910, it still works! Buy a modern plastic toaster now, lucky if it still works in 5 years. (Landfill fodder)
We need to use our earths finite resources with great wisdom, rather than wasting it like short sighted greedy delinquent children.
It could be that we have just enough resources to get off the planet and colonize space, yet here we are just trashing everything for the greedy few at the top of the manufactured food chain !?
What we are currently doing is insane.