Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Congressman Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) has sent letters to universities
requesting information on the sources of financial support of seven
climate researchers. A few of these might well have some portion of
their funding come from energy companies, I don’t know.
The implication, of course, is that research money from fossil fuel
companies to any skeptics is bad, even though much greater amounts of
fossil fuel money goes to Green organizations.
Can you spell “hypocrisy”?
One of the biggest misconceptions about climate research funding is
that government funding is unbiased. That is, the belief that
government funding does not favor one outcome over another.
This might be true for benign research projects, like the mating
habits of the Arctic sea slug, but when it comes to research topics with
massive political and economic implications, nothing could be further
from the truth.
Government funding programs are, in part, formulated by government
political appointees who prefer research with outcomes that support
their government programs. ......
That Roger Pielke, Jr. is one of the current ‘Skeptical Seven’
targets is especially troubling. Roger is quite green and hardly
considers himself a skeptic. In fact, he largely agrees with the IPCC.
All he asks is that people stop making demonstrably incorrect claims
that “climate change” is causing greater damage today than it ever has.
(Total monetary losses due to weather rise as prosperity and
infrastructure increases, even if weather becomes somewhat less severe).
Yet, Roger is now backing out of climate change related research due
to the current witch hunt.
I’ll leave it to others to decide whether McCarthyism is a good description of the current situation."
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