Motl, L

Or consider Lubos Motl, a Czech theoretical physicist who has never published on climate change but nonetheless keeps up a steady stream of web assaults on scientists he calls “fringe kibitzers who want to become universal dictators” who should “be thinking how to undo your inexcusable behavior so that you will spend as little time in prison as possible.” On the crazed killer front, Motl said that, while he supported many of Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik’s ideas, it was hard to justify gunning down all those children -- still, it did <a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/07/26/279027/lubos-motl-because-hes-right-wing-anders-breivik-is-probably-smarter-than-most-terrorists/">demonstrate</a> that “right-wing people... may even be more efficient while killing -- and the probable reason is that Breivik may have a higher IQ than your garden variety left-wing or Islamic terrorist.”

If your urge is to laugh at this kind of clown show, the joke’s on you -- because it’s worked. I mean, James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who has emerged victorious in every Senate fight on climate change, cites Motl regularly; Monckton has testified four times before the U.S. Congress....

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/21/deniers-attack-nasa-scientist/

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Sellers concluded that, rather than summiting Everest or traveling to exotic beaches, he wanted to spend his final days with loved ones and getting back to work. In his lifetime, Sellers accomplished a lot. He visited the International Space Station three times, walked in space six times and logged more than 600 hours in space. Currently, Sellers is managing a team of scientists doing research on Earth’s climate and weather patterns. Ultimately, he said he’s happy with how his life turned out and he’s hopeful for the planet’s future.

He wrote:

“As for me, I’ve no complaints. I’m very grateful for the experiences I’ve had on this planet. As an astronaut I spacewalked 220 miles above the Earth. Floating alongside the International Space Station, I watched hurricanes cartwheel across oceans, the Amazon snake its way to the sea through a brilliant green carpet of forest, and gigantic nighttime thunderstorms flash and flare for hundreds of miles along the Equator. From this God’s-eye-view, I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the Earth is. I’m hopeful for its future. And so, I’m going to work tomorrow.”

It was a very moving letter from a man facing a terminal illness, and yet, it took no time at all for <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=climate+denier">climate deniers</a> to lambaste Sellers, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/19/1765701/cancer-climate/" target="blank">ThinkProgress</a> reported. Breitbart, a conservative news outlet, completely <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/18/nasa-chief-global-warming-is-real-because-i-have-cancer/" target="blank">misrepresented</a> Sellers by running this piece: NASA Chief: Global Warming Is Real Because I Have Cancer.

“A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad,” Breitbart’s James Delingpole wrote. “What’s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change alarmism.”

Wow. Climate doubters are attacking dying astronaut, climate scientist. Just stunning. <a href="https://t.co/oM9hQ5Inwu">https://t.co/oM9hQ5Inwu</a>

— seth borenstein (@borenbears) <a href="https://twitter.com/borenbears/status/688773348311085056">January 17, 2016</a>

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Delingpole wasn’t alone though. <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/01/17/nasa-scientist-in-nyt-i-have-stage-4-pancreatic-cancer-but-climate-change-is-still-my-top-concern-skeptical-scientist-responds/" target="blank">Marc Morano of Climate Depot</a> and <a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2016/01/when-religious-beliefs-trump-ones-life.html" target="blank">Lubos Motl</a>, two prominent climate deniers, also attacked Sellers.

Motl wrote on his blog:

“Sellers’ text is so unbelievably detached from ‘what you would expect to be important’ that I could imagine that it was—and who know, maybe even his disease was—masterminded by the climate alarmist sect in order to create a moral symbol. Maybe the true believers have gathered and picked a martyr who will strengthen the idea that the climate alarmists aren’t just a bunch of dishonest parasitic hypocritical crackpots and scum but that they also include many believers who are ready to place their totally irrational faith above their own lives.”

Ironically, Sellers said in his op-ed that 2015 “may also be seen in hindsight as the year of the Death of Denial. Globally speaking, most policy makers now trust the scientific evidence and predictions, even as they grapple with ways to respond to the problem,” he said. “And most Americans—70 percent, according to a recent <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/bbab2f4a-3eef-4772-9b82-8fbdd996452a.pdf">Monmouth University poll</a>—believe that the climate is changing. So perhaps now we can move on to the really hard part of this whole business.”

His words echo those of President Obama’s in his <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/13/obama-sotu/">State of the Union address</a> last week.

The president said:

“Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You’ll be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it.”

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http://junkscience.com/2012/02/29/motl-fred-singer-and-skeptics-vs-deniers/  

Luboš Motl responds to today’s <a href="http://junkscience.com/2012/02/29/singer-climate-deniers-are-giving-us-skeptics-a-bad-name/">Fred Singer-column in American Thinker</a>.

Motl writes:

Fred says that when it comes to the climate debate, the people are divided into three groups, warmistas, skeptics, and deniers, and he considers himself a skeptic....

...n a rather sad attempt to spin the story,  Chair of the Exxon funded G.C. Marshall Institute <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=609">William Happer</a> <a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40916">said</a> “They basically sent both statements back to their committee on public affairs and asked them to reconsider, I think it’s a big victory for us.”

Ever a bastion of scientific ignorance, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yfdoxgf">Lubos Motl</a> frames the defeat as “APS fat cats stick to the sinking AGW bandwagon” and even has a message for the APS, literally “and tell them, fuck you.” A great example of the cogent, fact based scientific arguments we know so well from the Denialosphere.

Despite Lubos’ delusions of APS political correctness, the truth is that [emphasis added]:

“What this means is that the APS, which is the preeminent society of physicists in the US, and which tends to be extremely conservative in its policy and statements, continues to support the prevailing consensus of AGW model based on the scientifically available studies and results.“

<a href="http://physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com/2009/11/aps-council-overwhelmingly-rejects.html">Physics and Physicists</a>....

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