Blair and Bush advisers at war

By Joe Murphy Political Editor In Washington, Evening Standard
4 November 2004

George Bush's environmental adviser today launched a savage attack on Britain's chief scientist for suggesting that global warming threatened the planet.

Myron Ebell, director of global warming at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, said that Sir David King's warnings on climate change were "ridiculous" and "alarmist".

Sir David created controversy earlier this year when he said that global warming was a more important issue than the war on terror. He warned that flooding, droughts and extreme weather were on their way unless urgent action was taken.

But in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Ebell said the warning that climate change was the greatest crisis for humanity was based on "a tissue of improbabilities": "We have people who know nothing-about climate science like Sir David King, who are alarmist and continually promote this ridiculous claim," he said.
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and the CEI is very much like the AEI - paid for by the oil and tobacco industries, among others.

I believe he might have been the fool from the CEI who thought it was a good idea if the current stocks of flu vaccine were subject to market forces, so that it might cost 50,000 for a jab. The guy's a dipshit.

could tell us all about the "real truth" and the invisible cloud guy.

:eyes:

They better realize that YESTERDAY was the time to stand up to these crooks.

So, who do you trust to understand climate science? The head of Chemistry at Cambridge University, or someone from the 'social sciences'?

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It's against my democratic nature to call anyone "Sir David" but he still sounds like a hell of a man who is not going to be told to stand down on the matter of global climate change.

good hearts and who care about society.

Hopefully, one of the legacies of Labour in the UK will be to give "Sir" a whole knew meaning.

But I'm with you. Just call him David. Or, more appropiately, "Professor" or "Doctor".

... who strangely enough tend to be associated with large donations
to the Labour party (or members thereof)?

What a coincidence ...

without needing proof or facts doesn't apply to stopping climate change. Fucking morons.

Can you say Halliburton.

something to the effect of:

Only America has free scientists. In every other country scientists just produce the results their govts. want.

I nearly choked on my early morning phlegm.

I've worked all my working life (well 5 years) in state funded scientific organisations. Most of the senior scientists I have met care not a jot about govt. policy. After all, if they don't produce quality research then it's their reputation that goes down the shitter. If these people were ambitious or wanted money, they would not be working in universities.

When the govt. does come up with stuff it wants us to do, it tends to be new "initiatives".

Flavour of the month just now is "Knowledge Transfer" - no-one seems to know what it means - even people in the funding organisations. But it looks good on proposals.

To sum up: What a twat!