Re: OT: getting rid of the medieval warm period

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 13, 10:56 am, PeteS <axk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eeyore wrote:


PeteS wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In a thread here some time back I mentioned a climate researcher who I'd heard
was approached with respect to 'getting rid of the medieval warm period' in
order to make the IPCC case for AGW more compelling.

At the time I didn't have a cite but I just found it again.

http://www.epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=266543

Statement of Dr. David Deming
University of Oklahoma
College of Earth and Energy
Climate Change and the Media

Another one of Exxon's shills.

And you think that's a reason to disregard him ? Oh, he got some funds from an oil
company so you can't believe a word he says ? How ridiculous can you get ?

Your bias is so embedded you must be blind to it.

I could talk of IPCC shills. Heck, the grants available to those who take 'the
company line' over AGW are plentiful. Suggest that you don't believe man is
reponsible and your research will never get funded. That' sounds far more like
institutional bias to me.

Graham

That's my whole point; on BOTH sides of this debate (if it can be called
that) most of the 'science' is from people funded either directly or
indirectly from outfits with a known economic interest in the outcome.
To my knowledge, there is NO truly independent research on the issue.

Scientific method my ass

This 'corruption' seems to be far more endemic on the IPCC side of the case imho.

Graham

I agree - and that's because the people with 'green' on the agenda have captivated the politicians ears, whence comes the funding. Money is a great corrupter.


Politicians don't get to directly influence which grants get funded. A
lot of the of money distributed to fund research within relatively
broad areas of science does come from sources that politicians do
control, but the grant applications are reviewed, evaluated and ranked
by senior scientists with the specific fields of research.

Nobody after grant money would waste time brown-nosing a politician.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

You REALLY ain't from around here. Welcome to Earth. Stay a while, spend money, then GO HOME! 8-)

Of course, you seem to differentiate between polititicians in public office, and politicians in academia... ;-)

Charlie
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