‘Science’ Responds to Climategate
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 10th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
‘Science’ Responds to Climategate
Clive Crook, The Atlantic
« Obama's Brookings speech on jobs | Main | Some links » 08 Dec 2009 04:29 pmThe response of the climate-science establishment to Climategate has been disappointing if predictable. The guild mentality has come to the fore. Campaigns are under way to defend the integrity of science from a scurrilous smear campaign. The message is simple: you are either with us or you are a barbarian.The first line of response to the leaked or hacked emails, you recall, was to say that they showed science going on as usual–even science at its best, some…
Obama’s FDR Moment
Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
With a sweeping bow to reality, President Obama unveiled his second economic stimulus program on Tuesday. He didn't call it that, of course, since “stimulus” has become taboo, but the proposals he sketched will considerably amplify the government's efforts to combat the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.The key elements of the plan are a series of tax breaks and, conceivably, redirected TARP funds for small business and a doubling-down of the federal investment in infrastructure. By placing such a heavy emphasis on aid to small business, Obama is…
Going Cheney on Climate
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
In 2006, Ron Suskind published “The One Percent Doctrine,” a book about the U.S. war on terrorists after 9/11. The title was drawn from an assessment by then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who, in the face of concerns that a Pakistani scientist was offering nuclear-weapons expertise to Al Qaeda, reportedly declared: “If there’s a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping Al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.” Cheney contended that the U.S. had to confront a very new type of threat: a…
