Global Warming Deniers Have No Ethics
May 7th, 2008 by AndrewSo the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, published a paper about 8 months ago claiming the support of 500 scientists with serious doubts about anthropogenic global warming. Sounds like a damning indictment of the so-called scientific consensus on climate change, no?
Well, it turns out that until recently, no journalists have actually bothered to confirm that any of those scientists actually did have doubts - they assumed that the Heartland Institute wasn’t blatantly lying in order to further their agenda. The DeSmogBlog decided to contact a few of the scientists, and of the 122 that were e-mailed, 36 responded with outrage and disbelief within 24 hours, saying things like:
I have NO doubts ..the recent changes in global climate ARE man-induced. I insist that you immediately remove my name from this list since I did not give you permission to put it there.”
The Heartland Institute has since withdrawn their claim.
More fuel for the fire…
May 7th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Haha… and now they’ve changed it to say that there are even more scientists who believe that there are natural variations in the earth’s climate, and use this to claim that therefore anthropogenic global climate change is a lie. No shit there are natural shifts - I’ve never met a scientist who refutes ice ages and warm periods - but at the same time these people all agree that humans are causing the climate to change way faster than anything “natural”. How do people fall for this? I don’t even want to respond to this stuff anymore, it just makes me feel like I’m lending credibility to something that shouldn’t even be the subject of debate.