When a liberal—any liberal—speaks (or even just issues a press release), the liberal media jumps into action and writes up a story. When a famous Canadian climate scientist—one of the tens of thousands of scientists who are not on board the good ship “Kyoto” speaks, the liberal-left agenda-driven media in Canada writes about Harper being, and I quote, a “mystery wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a riddle,” and essentially does not speak about the matter at hand.
Unlike the great Fox News Channel whose secondary motto is We report, you decide, Canada’s liberal media motto is We report what we want to or not to report, and then you decide but we’ll tell you how to think anyway.
Good thing they report more than just the liberal media’s agenda in some papers like the Telegraph the U.K. (And a hat tip to PTBC reader “The Patriot” for virtually flying over to the U.K. and finding the article mentioning the Canadian scientist and sending it along to me).
(I blogged about the documentary film being referenced, here, last week, and included a clip. And this PTBC column is another of many good related links I could offer, to say nothing of “our” Steve Milloy’s columns).
Scientists threatened for ‘climate denial’
By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:24am GMT 11/03/2007Scientists who questioned mankind’s impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.
They say the debate on global warming has been “hijacked” by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.
Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.
One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further 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 sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, 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.”
Last week, Professor Ball appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a Channel 4 documentary in which several scientists claimed the theory of man-made global warming had become a “religion”, forcing alternative explanations to be ignored.
Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – who also appeared on the documentary – 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.”
Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, agreed. He said: “The Green movement has hijacked the issue of climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only way to deal with the problem is to start micro managing everyone, which is what environmentalists seem to want to do.”
Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: “Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.”
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