The Global Warming Reader - Pt. IV: The Purge

If you can't beat 'em, silence 'em. Hey, it worked with Galileo, right? And besides, all religions - even moonbat cults like the Church of Global Warming - can benefit from a good inquisition and subsequent excommunication of heretics.

Sir David King's Queenie Fit
National Review Online: The scene was a scientific workshop set up to discuss the science of global warming. It took place in a non-Western country and was convened by the country's Academy of Sciences. Delegates came from all over the world. Yet the delegation from one major Western power behaved in a most undiplomatic fashion. The way the science was being presented was inconvenient to their political agenda, so they tried to get the scientists they disagreed with silenced. (Jul 23, 2004)

Climate of Fear
Opinion Journal: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis. (Apr. 12, 2006)

"I don't like the word 'Balance'"- Says ABC News Global Warming Reporter
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: ABC News Reporter Bill Blakemore declared "I don't like the word 'balance' much at all" in global warming coverage at a journalism conference in Vermont over the weekend. Blakemore, who reported on August 30, 2006, "After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific] debate" on global warming, said he rejects 'balance' in order to justify excluding any skeptics of manmade catastrophic global warming from his reporting. (Oct 30, 2006)

Con job at The Weather Channel
WorldNetDaily: Far-left political ideologies are being promulgated through ever-increasing mediums, and recently I noticed that a once-vaunted American television network, The Weather Channel, had succumbed to the cancerous spread of liberalism. (Jan 5, 2007)

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists. (Jan 17, 2007)

"The Weather Channel" Mess
James Spann: "I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype." (Jan 18, 2007)

Del. global warming skeptic stands pat
Delaware Online: Delaware's state climatologist has found himself in the middle of a political squall after taking skeptical stands on global warming and climate change -- in one case directly contradicting the state's own policy. (Feb 1, 2007)

The First Church of Fundamentalist Climate Change
Big Lizards: It evidently matters little how well qualified a meteorologist or climatologist is, or what relevant academic position he holds, or how much original scientific research he has done, or how many papers he has published, or how many other climatologists, meteorologists, and atmospheric scientists cite those papers: If he comes to a conclusion different from that dictated by the IPCC via the AMS -- then he should be disbarred, or whatever the heck the world society of climate luminaries, sages, and soothsayers call it when they summon a climatologist into a circle to publicly rip off his epaulets. (Feb 2, 2007)

Minner directs Legates not to use his title when speaking on climate change
DelMarVA.com Daily Times: Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has directed Delaware's state climatologist to stop using his title in public statements on climate change, citing a clash of views on global warming and confusion over the position's ties to the administration. "Your views on climate change, as I understand them, are not aligned with those of my administration," Minner wrote. (Feb 23, 2007)

Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'
Daily Telegraph: Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community. They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions. (Mar 11, 2007)

Climate change skeptics say it's hard to get heard
Reuters: Scientists who doubt the scope and cause of climate change have trouble getting funding and academic posts unless they conform to an "alarmist scenario," said Roger Helmer, a British member of the European Parliament, at a panel discussion on appropriate responses to rising global temperatures. (Apr 18, 2007)

Film on Global Warming Is Challenged
AP: A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. "This is a contemptible, weasel-worded attempt to gag scientific criticism, and it won't work," director Mark Durkin said. "I don't believe they're interested in quality control when it comes to the reporting of science -- so long as it's on their side." (Apr 25, 2007)

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