The growing backlash against global warming

*Continuous updates on House vote here*


The indefatigable Ed Morrissey quotes Kimberley Strassel in today's Wall Street Journal who gives us some actual good news:

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.

There's much more at both sites, so click and read. Multiple countries are axing their cap-and-trade schemes based on scientific proof against global warming, but the US government under Obama (as in the case of socialized medicine and socialism in general) is behind the curve.

The pseudoscience is coming apart and the truth, based on real science, is coming out:

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.) [emphasis added]

Dishonest scienticians give science and scientists a bad name, violate the public trust, and do a great deal of harm to society. They deserve our contempt.

Related posts on bogus scientists:
Blind faith in global warming
Birds from dinosaurs? Never mind.

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