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</font></div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Credentials</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">B.A.</span> Physics <span class="caps">U.C.</span> Berkley</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps">M.S.</span> Physics University of Hawaii</font></li></ul><p class="rteindent1" style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 40px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Source</em>: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Background</font></h2><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norman (Norm) Rogers is a Policy Advisor at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>. Norm Rogers received a <span class="caps">B.A.</span> in Physics from the University of California at Berkley and a <span class="caps">M.S.</span> in Physics from the University of Hawaii. Following his education, he “held a variety of engineering and computer programming jobs with <span class="caps">IBM</span>, Hewlett Packard and other companies,” according to the Heartland Institute<span class="s2">.</span> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norm Rogers is the author of ClimateViews.com, which lists Wikipedia as a “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140721173435/http://climateviews.com/Climate_Views/Alarmist_Sites.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">site promoting global warming alarmism</a>,” in a section of the website. On the site’s homepage, Rogers notes that he’s “been studying global warming for about 6 years as a retirement project,” and has “a strong background in physics and computers and [is] able to follow the science involved.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s2" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a> , <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s3" style="text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stance on Climate Change</font></h2><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Global warming is a political movement disguised as a scientific movement.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s7" style="text-decoration: none;">[7]</a></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Global warming scare stories are good for global warming science because the scare stories promote research funding. If it weren't for the scary predictions these scientists would be toiling in a poorly funded and obscure branch of academic science.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The increase in temperature predicted by the global warming computer models is about 3 degrees Celsius. This isn't very scary, so the promoters of global warming alarmism come up with additional scare stories. For example, there will be more hurricanes, the ice caps will melt, the polar bears will die, the oceans will become acid and kill the coral, and weather will become more extreme.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Controlling our own carbon dioxide emissions accomplishes practically nothing if the Chinese and Indians don't control theirs. They play along as long as it seems profitable. The Chinese and Indians are like the natives who happily attend church services as long as the missionaries are giving out free dinners.</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Green electric power from windmills and solar energy is impracticable. Its expensive and due to the erratic nature of sunshine and wind, solar and wind power must be backed up by duplicate power plants or by energy storage systems that are as expensive as duplicate power plants. It sometimes seems that the advocates of solar power don't realize that the sun does not shine at night. The much acclaimed Kyoto Treaty for the reduction of <span class="caps">CO</span>2 illogically does not give <span class="caps">CO</span>2 reduction credit for <span class="caps">CO</span>2-free nuclear power plants, something put in the treaty in response to green lobbying.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Quotes</font></h2><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>I’ve discovered that if a person is committed to green ideology it is very difficult to change their mind about global warming alarmism. This is true even if they are technically qualified and able to understand scientific arguments. You can’t change their thinking because their thinking is faith based. In other words they have come to believe in a green religion. Even though these believers could have a green religion without global warming they are very reluctant to let go of global warming because it is a justification for other tenets of the green religion like using less energy. However scientific arguments and facts are very important for informing people who are open minded on the subject of global warming.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s2" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></font></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>There are very eminent older climate scientists, like <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Richard Lindzen</a> and Roger Peilke Sr. that are publicly critical of the green doctrine. These are scientists who are so accomplished and established as to be immune to retaliation. Mid-career climate scientists, like <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Roy Spencer</a> and John Christy, both from the University of Alabama Huntsville, are critical of global warming doctrine and have done very important scientific work trying to point the science in a sounder direction. But most of the critics of global warming alarmism come from related fields of science, for example meteorology, engineering or physics.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s2" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></font></p></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Deeds</font></h2><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span class="s1"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 7 - 9, 2014</font></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span class="s2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norm Rogers was a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140714154246/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="s3">speaker</span></a> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="s3">Heartland Institute</span></a>’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps">ICCC</span>9) in Las Vegas, Nevada. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s5" style="text-decoration: none;">[5]</a> </font></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span class="s2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View DeSmogBlog’s in-depth research on the other <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="s4">speakers and sponsors from Heartland's <span class="caps">ICCC</span>9</span></a>.</font></span></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Affiliations</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 17.6px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140718185736/http://heartland.org/norman-rogers" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a></strong> — Policy Advisor, Expert. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s1" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[1]</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"> </span></font></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/co2-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><strong><span class="caps">CO</span>2 Coalition </strong></a>— Member, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150904171309/http://co2coalition.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Advisory Committee</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s8" style="text-decoration: none;">[8]</a></font></span></li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other Affiliations</font></span></h3><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>American Geophysical Union</strong> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s4" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[4]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>American Meteorological Society</strong> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s4" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[4]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>National Association of Scholars — </strong>Board of Directors <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/norman-rogers#s4" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[4]</a></font></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Publications</font></h2><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norm Rogers has not published any peer-reviewed scientific literature according to Google Scholar, Skeptical Science, or search engines.</font></p><h2 class="p2" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Resources</font></h2><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s1" id="s1">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140718185736/http://heartland.org/norman-rogers" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Norman Rogers, Expert</a>,” Heartland Institute. Archived July 18, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s2" id="s2">Norman Rogers. ”</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140721172914/http://climateviews.com/Climate_Views/Home.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Welcome to Climate Views.com</a>,” ClimateViews.com. Archived July 21, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s3" id="s3">Norman Rogers. “</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140721173435/http://climateviews.com/Climate_Views/Alarmist_Sites.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Sites Promoting Global Warming Alarmism</a>,” ClimateViews.com. Archived July 21, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s4" id="s4">“</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Scholars#cite_note-naspeople-18" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">People: National Association of Scholars</a>,” <em>Sourcewatch</em>, July 11, 2011.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s5" id="s5">“</a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Return of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon To Vegas Freedomfest</a>,” <em>DeSmogBlog</em>, July 7, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s6" id="s6">Norman Rogers. “</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140721181008/http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/global_warming_blues.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Global Warming Blues</a>,” <em>American Thinker</em>, August 27, 2009. Archived July 21, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="s7" id="s7">Norman Rogers. “</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140801161503/http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/bamboozled_billionaires.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Bamboozled Billionaires</a>,” <em>American Thinker</em>, July 21, 2014. Archived August 1, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><a name="s8" id="s8">“</a></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150904171309/http://co2coalition.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">About</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">,” Co2Coalition. 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margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7794">denial database</a></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="home_blog_date"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">June 7,<b> 2011</b></font></span></p><h1 times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Naomi Oreskes, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conspiracy Queen</span></font></h1><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/norman_rogers/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Norman Rogers</a> [who?</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Norman Rogers is a Senior Policy Advisor at the<b> </b><a href="http://www.heartland.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><b>Heartland</b> Institute</a></span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> and maintains a </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">personal <a href="http://www.climateviews.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">website</a>. </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><div class="article_body" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Naomi Oreskes is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky. She thinks that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">anyone who questions environmentalist doctrine is evil</span>. Her crusade is to expose the presumed ulterior motives of the critics. According to Oreskes, if you question the dubious studies concerning secondhand tobacco smoke, you must be in the pay of tobacco companies. If you question global warming, you must be working for a fossil fuel company. If you question the DDT ban, you must part of a right wing conspiracy to weaken faith in government regulators.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Oreskes is the author of one of the silliest<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.full" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> articles</a> ever to appear in the journal <em>Science</em>. She claimed that she analyzed 928 peer-reviewed papers on global warming and 100% agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concerning global warming. </span> If you go to the website of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.nipccreport.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">(NIPCC)</a> </span>you can find hundreds of peer reviewed papers that disagree with the IPCC in one way or another. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Her latest book, with co-author Erik Conway, is <em>Merchants of Doubt</em>. In this tedious [ kiss of death? uses big words?] book she treats us to the details of numerous disputes between those who subscribe to normative environmental theology and those who don't. Normative environmental theology is the sort of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">theology</span> that is preached by the <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=TakeAction&s_src=610ZSCAC01" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Sierra Club</a> or the<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Union of Concerned Scientists</a>. Oreskes is a professor and an important <a href="http://sio.ucsd.edu/Profile/noreskes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">administrator</a> at the University of California. Like Chomsky, she cloaks her endless conspiracy theories in the machinery of scholarship. Her 343 page book has 64 pages of notes. A pig with lipstick is still a pig.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neither Oreskes nor her co-author have strong scientific educations and it shows. From her book it is obvious that she enjoyed access to many scientists, but somehow none of her scientist friends found the time to proof read <em>Merchants of Doubt</em>. [proofread is one word, irony; note no evidence of error] This is not hard to understand. Merchants of Doubt is a book of unsurpassed monotony. Conspiracy theories get boring very quickly, especially when the conspiracies are all variations of a few crude plots. A number of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">informed critiques </span>of <em>Merchants of Doubt</em> can be seen in the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/product-reviews/1608193942/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">1-star Amazon reviews</a>. [TP was training?]</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the introduction to <em>Merchants of Doubt</em> the fact that adding CO2 to the atmosphere causes the stratosphere to cool and the troposphere to warm is explained as follows:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 30px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But if the warming is caused by greenhouse gases emitted at the surface and largely trapped in the lower atmosphere, then we expect the troposphere to warm, but the stratosphere to cool.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is a bit difficult to know what this sentence means but it is clear that Oreskes hasn't the faintest idea concerning radiation and the role of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) are not trapped in the lower atmosphere but are well mixed up to and including the stratosphere. CO2 causes the stratosphere to cool because CO2 is a good radiator of infrared radiation and thus improves the capability to exhaust stratospheric heat to space as radiation. Cooling of the stratosphere is not evidence of global warming. It is evidence of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. The distinction is important. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The<a href="http://assassinationscience.com/climategate/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">climategate</span></a> emails are hundreds of emails among important scientists that show them to be perverting scientific protocols and practicing propaganda to promote global warming alarmism. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2011/Apr/ATL-041111_santer.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Ben Santer</a> is a prominent player in the climategate emails. He is most famous for saying this about the global warming skeptic scientist <a href="http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Patrick Michaels</a>:</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 30px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oreskes, apparently before the release of the <b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">climategate</span> emails, said this about Ben Santer: </b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 30px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He's thoroughly moderate... soft-spoken, almost self-effacing ... you might think he was an accountant...<a id="ednref1" href="http://tmp.americanthinker.com/mt-static/plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/paste/blank.htm#edn1" name="ednref1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><sup>[i]</sup></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ben Santer, who may be Oreskes' favorite scientist, has been struggling for years with the skeptics concerning the relative heating of the upper troposphere. He has resorted to publishing papers with as many of <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/309/5740/1551.short" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">24 co-authors</a>, apparently in an attempt to make his arguments more credible by collecting a lot of scientists willing to support him. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In Oreskes' milieu, it is apparently a bad thing to be <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">anti-communist. </span> She attacks and psychoanalyzes the physicist Frederick Seitz for his "strident" and "unalloyed" anti-communism. She puts thoughts in Seitz's head. He thinks his colleagues are "ingrates" and he "has an uneasy time with the masses." He was "hawkish" and "superior." Another physicist, William Nierenberg, is also psychoanalyzed by Oreskes. According to her Nierenberg "hated environmentalists" and was "overconfident." Nierenberg's son Nicholas Nierenberg has been so upset by Oreskes' distortions of his father's work that he started a <a href="http://www.nicolasnierenberg.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">website</a> to refute Oreskes. The sin of these eminent physicists for Oreskes is that they were critics of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">environmental extremism</span> and strong supporters of the United States in the Cold War. Seitz and Nierenberg are both dead and thus cannot defend themselves.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Fred Singer is a scientist who has been in the forefront of defending science against <a href="http://junkscience.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">junk science</a></b>. </span>This is not an easy road to take. Junk science is a basic tool for groups that are pushing ideological positions. Subtle distinctions are not welcomed by the ideological groups. If you acknowledge that smoking cigarettes causes cancer, but then you dare to say that the hazard presented by secondhand smoke is exaggerated, you are tagged as a supporter of cancer. If you say that the case for man-caused global warming is full of holes you are tagged as an agent of fossil fuel companies. Very few scientists are brave enough to take the heat and personal attacks the come from standing up to junk science. Fred Singer has been doing it for a long time. In his late 80's, he is still writing scientific papers and traveling the world giving lectures. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Oreskes is a promoter of junk science </span>and for that reason cannot abide Fred Singer. Singer is her favorite punching bag. His name appears dozens of times in<em>Merchants of Doubt</em>. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Should we be surprised that Naomi Oreskes is a professor at the University of California and has been<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> promoted to an administrative position? </span>After all Noam Chomsky was a professor at MIT. But Chomsky was a professor because of his work in linguistics, not because he believes in crazy conspiracies. It seems that Naomi Oreskes is successful not in spite of her love of conspiracy, but exactly because she promotes conspiracies. This makes one wonder what has happened to the intellectual climate at the University of California.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The science establishment has fallen so low that it thinks it is a useful tactic to deal with its critics by accusing them of conspiracies financed by tobacco companies and oil companies. For the last 50 years, starting with <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">DDT, we have been subjected to junk science</span> <b>scares</b>. The scares were invariably false or exaggerated. Most of these scares were not more than brief media sensations, but some scares have been disruptive, diverting attention from real problems. The king of all scares is global warming. Taken seriously, it requires revamping the entire world economy and making us all poorer. The predictions of global warming disaster are deeply flawed junk science dressed up with an impressive "scientific" structure of panels, committees and organizations. The global warming scare is rapidly collapsing. Scientists outside of the global warming bubble are pointing out the flaws in the science and a coterie of well-informed <a href="http://climateaudit.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">bloggers</a> is getting out the message by bypassing the establishment media where critics' voices are generally blocked. Nature is helping because the earth and the oceans are <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/06/the-global-warming-hypothesis-and-ocean-heat/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">failing to warm</a> according to script. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>That a conspiracist like Naomi Oreskes would be welcomed by the global warming scientific establishment and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3wrvon2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">invited</a> to speak at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union</b> meeting is a symptom of increasing desperation. The global warming advocates have dug themselves into a deep hole and they can't seem to stop digging. Ironically Oreskes spoke at a meeting where Exxon Mobil was the biggest financial contributor<a id="ednref2" href="http://tmp.americanthinker.com/mt-static/plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/paste/blank.htm#edn2" name="ednref2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><sup>[ii]</sup></a>. Apparently it's not a conspiracy if Exxon Mobil gives its money to the right people.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Norman Rogers is a Senior Policy Advisor at the<b> </b><a href="http://www.heartland.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><b>Heartland</b> Institute</a></span> and maintains a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">personal <a href="http://www.climateviews.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">website</a>. </span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <a id="edn1" href="http://tmp.americanthinker.com/mt-static/plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/paste/blank.htm#ednref1" name="edn1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><sup>[i]</sup></a> Merchants of Doubt page 1</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a id="edn2" href="http://tmp.americanthinker.com/mt-static/plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/paste/blank.htm#ednref2" name="_edn2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><sup>[ii]</sup></a> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Exxon Mobil was a titanium sponsor, the highest category.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><hr style="height: 1px;" /></div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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