Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Forrest Kyle writes "A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has received multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. '"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor. "I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal." Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...] recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."'"

Well they can always get funding

[AlanS2002]

from oil companies to speak at conferences full of other climate change deniers.

This is really stupid.

[FlyingSquidStudios]

This guy actually believes he's targeted for death? When scientists on his side of the spectrum start dying off mysteriously, I'll care.

Re:I Don't Buy It

[rkanodia]

So, we have a clear solution: just have Al Gore circle the globe in a supersonic jet and talk really fast at bookings.

Re:Responses are criticizing the wrong thing

[brm1974]

I see - there is still a lot of Good in you...

Re:More denial crapola on slashdot

[Just Some Guy]

Dr. Christopher Landsea:
Leading expert in the field of hurricanes and tropical storms.

Interesting coincidence.

Sincerely, Holden Yourass, M.D. (proctology)

Re:I Don't Buy It

[cayenne8]

"I've seen otherwise rational individuals goaded into attacking people with taunts and insults."

Now...go away...or I shall taunt you a second time....

:-)

Industry stooges

[Anonymous Coward]

Just because you've been labeled an industry stooge doesn't mean you aren't one.

Yes, well

[paranode]

I think people are too materialistic so we should raise the prices on 50"+ big screen TVs and fancy cars. An extra tax would be good too. That way people would start thinking about being more like me for a change! That'll show 'em good.

Re:You're ignoring costs to them of "doing somethi

[Photon Ghoul]

While you're predicting the future, do you have any investment advice?

Re:I Don't Buy It

[Myopic]

I agree completely. When I look back at history, I'm really glad people took a proactive stance instead of letting certain things get out of hand! For instance, by nipping witchcraft in the bud, the good people of Salem, Massachusetts saved us all from eternal damnation. Also, thank God we undertook the Crusades and definitively crushed our enemies, because otherwise we might have a downright hostile relationship with the Muslim world. And remember those Luddites who destroyed the weaving looms, they saved us from a future where all our cloth is made by machines instead of by humans, the right and proper way. I could go on and on and on with how much I agree with you!

Yes, I am deeply thankful that our ancestors had such keen insight in predicting the future, and I welcome our current opportunity to uphold this grand human tradition.