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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The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Warmth can be good
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-warmer-rivers-antimicrobial-resistance-bay.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-temperatures-soil-wetter.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ice-ages-dry-thought-australian.html
Climate news
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ocean-sponges-earth-longer-thought.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-limits-weather-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-sea.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-world-climate-scientists-category-hurricanes.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-tool-skillfully-marine-habitat-shifts.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-soil-based-carbon.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-psychology-unearths-ways-bolster-global.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-creativity-disempowered-highlight-climate-emergency.html
Here is how the left will try to change us
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-population-policy-solution-world-problems.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ai-voter-fraud-disenfranchise.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-animal-based-foods-alternative-proteins.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-city-biased-citizens.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-county-energy-transition-effects-jobs.html
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
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-prison-perpetrators-genocide-theyve.html
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-opinion-peer-isnt-ive-firsthand.html
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.