Re: Scientists prove susceptible to corruption, like everyone else
- From: stananger <stananger@********.***>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:54:38 GMT
Ðö¢ Vön Rö¢K wrote:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/92/Mad%20Science.htm
On Sunday, January 30th, the New York Times carried a front-page story
titled "Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him." The Oregonian ran
two articles, one on the 23rd of January and another on the 30th, about an
effort by professors at Oregon State University (OSU) to block publication
of a research study by one of their own graduate students. The study
concluded that logging after wildfires is harmful to forest growth (OSU
receives about 10 percent of its funding from a tax on logging).
These are only two examples of a troubling trend. Will science survive its
own politicization, or will it be destroyed by a new breed of
administrators who seem to silence scientists for sport, invoking primal
fear and causing them to turn against each other?
James E. Hansen directs efforts to simulate the global climate on
computers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, of which he is
director. He reported to NYT writer Andrew Revkin that, after giving a
lecture in December which included a call for prompt reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions, NASA administrators have been monitoring all
public media interaction he has, including postings on the Goddard
website. Why this made him feel singled out given the Bush
administration's recently exposed spy program is a bit uncertain. (They're
spying on all of us, okay? You're not special Dr. Hansen.)
Hansen issued a similar public complaint in October 2004, after giving a
lecture at the University of Iowa. Yes, Iowa not only has a university,
but offers the Distinguished Public Lecture Series at the Department of
Physics and Astronomy. The lecture's title, "Dangerous Anthropogenic
Interference: A Discussion of Humanity's Faustian Climate Bargain and the
Payments Coming Due," reveals Dr. Hansen's strong opinion about this
phenomenon.
Dr. Hansen feels that informing the pubic about the dangers of global
warming is an absolute obligation for him as a federal scientist, and
doubly so as part of an organization whose mission statement includes "to
protect our home planet." The current administration's policy is to
voluntarily slow increases in greenhouse gas emissions. "Volunteer
emissions reducers" will probably be about as effective as the average
volunteer fire department, and without all the good food and picnics.
Anyway, after Hansen's speech, the Times reports, officials at NASA
received multiple phone calls from pubic affairs officers. They warned of
"dire consequences" should such statements continue.
there is no manmade global warming!
.
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