Another politician is silencing a climatologist for daring to question global warming. We’ve seen this story before, in Virginia and Oregon. Now it’s Delaware’s turn. The message being delivered by these politicians is quite clear, DO NOT QUESTION GLOBAL WARMING OR YOU WILL BE PUNISHED.
I’ll say it again, global warming is not about science, it’s a political movement.
State distances itself from climatologist
Gov. Minner directs Legates not to use his title when speaking on climate change
WILMINGTON, Del. �?? Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has directed Delaware’s state climatologist to stop using his title in public statements on climate change, citing a clash of views on global warming and confusion over the position’s ties to the administration.
Minner, who made the directive in a letter, described the move as a way to “clarify” the role of David R. Legates, a prominent skeptic of views that human activities are warming the planet and triggering climate shifts.
The articles continues to say that while the Governor believes that the climatoligist has “provided valuable advice to the state on weather issues” AND “she also acknowledged that the scientist had not claimed to represent the state government’s position on the need to control pollutants linked to global warming.”
So what’s the problem? The guy has done a good job, has not abused his position. His only sin apparently is to question global warming, which in the past twelve months has morphed from the conventional wisdom to fanatical cult.
It’s not like the guy is a Holocaust denier or anything! Oh, never mind. As the deplorable Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe recently explained,
Let�??s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
If you want to find the glass half full, at least liberals have found a cause they are willing to fight for. Now, if we could only convince them that radical Islamists have something to do with global warming!
To hear from more Holocaust deniers, sorry, global warming skeptics, check out this book review from last Sunday’s New York Times.
The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies
Finally, don’t miss our interview with Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.
Tough choice on who to believe, I know. Ellen Goodman, a liberal blowhard elitist snob or Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.