Climate Science Exploited for Political Agenda, According to Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
By Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
Climatism or global warming alarmism is the most prominent recent example of science being coopted to serve a political agenda, writes Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
He compares it to past examples: Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, and the eugenics movement. Lindzen describes the Iron Triangle and the Iron Rice Bowl, in which ambiguous statements by scientists are translated into alarmist statements by media and advocacy groups, influencing politicians to feed more money to the acquiescent scientists.
Lindzen writes: “Global climate alarmism has been costly to society, and it has the potential to be vastly more costly. It has also been damaging to science, as scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions. How can one escape from the Iron Triangle when it produces flawed science that is immensely influential and is forcing catastrophic public policy?”
h/t to Marc Morano
Another rational, spot-on and exposing contribution from Lindzen. For that, he will no doubt be further demonised by the CO²-centric, ‘97% consensus’ expert, fund leeching, grant driven, gravy-train, corrupt AGW science cult.
Lindzen all over the hoax: “For a lot of people including the bureaucracy in Government and the environmental movement, the issue is power. It’s hard to imagine a better leverage point than carbon dioxide to assume control over a society. It’s essential to the production of energy, it’s essential to breathing. If you demonise it and gain control over it, you so-to-speak, control everything. That’s attractive to people. It’s been openly stated for over forty years that one should try to use this issue for a variety of purposes, ranging from North/South redistribution, to energy independence, to God knows what…”
http://climatism.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/bureaucratic-dioxide/
Richard Lindzen is far to polite.
Most of the grant trough ‘research scientist’ don’t give a fig for the damage thay are doing. They just want the money. They and the MSM are pandering to the wants of Big Government without question.
Funny, Mann has me blocked, so I tweet to his RT’s
A totally brainwashed person…
I get this to day.
I Asked Is man going to get a prize soon? with WUWT link, https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/372918063458713600
Then latter I get this.
https://twitter.com/cousincat/status/373110740384620544