{"id":2473,"date":"2010-03-05T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:07:49","slug":"climate-scientists-to-attempt-to-retaliate-for-recent-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/climate-scientists-to-attempt-to-retaliate-for-recent-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate scientists to attempt to retaliate for recent setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m3d5-Climate-scientists-to-attempt-to-retaliate-for-recent-setbacks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The debate about manmade climate change continues with a group of climate scientists now seeking to launch a PR campaign against skeptics.\" src=\"http:\/\/image3.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/EXID25061\/images\/RedEarthQuestion(2).jpg\" alt=\"The debate about manmade climate change continues with a group of climate scientists now seeking to launch a PR campaign against skeptics.\" width=\"250\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The debate about manmade climate change continues with a group of climate scientists now seeking to launch a PR campaign against skeptics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Climate science and the purveyors of the manmade climate change theory have been sent reeling backwards over the past year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m2d26-UN-announces-independent-review-of-IPCC-climate-agency-as-skepticism-grows\">Errors discovered in their data and reporting<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~topic525937-Climategate?selstate=topcat#breadcrumb\">Climategate email scandal<\/a> and the shame it brought upon them, and continued cooling of the globe have set back their efforts. Now, a group of climate scientists is working to take the offensive against skeptics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/05\/scientists-plot-to-hit-back-at-critics\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Times reports today<\/a> that a number of scientists will start a new public relations campaign in the hopes of turning back the tide. Among the efforts by the scientists are to solicit a group of them to donate $1,000 each toward purchasing an ad in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>One of the scientists, Dr. Stephen Schneider, Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University lamented the state of the debate and sought to call up fears of the hunt for communists. \u201cI don&#8217;t want to see a repeat of McCarthyesque behavior and I&#8217;m already personally very dismayed by the horrible state of this topic, in which the political debate has almost no resemblance to the scientific debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schneider is most famous in many circles for making outrageous claims. In 1989 he told Discover magazine, \u201cSo we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, here on Examiner.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">he told San Francisco Environmental Policy Examiner Thomas Fuller<\/a> that any those who doubt the anthropogenic global warming theory would be \u201cslaughtered in public debate.\u201d When a number of notable scientists including Roger A. Pielke Sr. offered to debate him, Schneider quickly backpedaled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m3d5-Climate-scientists-to-attempt-to-retaliate-for-recent-setbacks\"><strong>For the complete story including to read what the infamous author of &#8220;The Population Bomb&#8221; had to say, please visit the Climate Change Examiner.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate science and the purveyors of the manmade climate change theory have been sent reeling backwards over the past year. Errors discovered in their data and reporting, the Climategate email scandal and the shame it brought upon them, and continued cooling of the globe have set back their efforts. Now, a group of climate scientists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/climate-scientists-to-attempt-to-retaliate-for-recent-setbacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate scientists to attempt to retaliate for recent setbacks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,224,354,353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}