An insider’s story of the global attack on climate science

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by Jim Sallinger Jan 23 2014


A recent headline—"Failed doubters trust leaves taxpayers six-figure loss"—marked the end of a four-year epic saga of secretly funded climate denial, the harassment of scientists, and a tying-up of valuable government resources in New Zealand.

It’s likely to be a familiar story to my scientist colleagues in Australia, the UK, the US, and elsewhere around the world.

But if you’re not a scientist and are genuinely trying to work out who to believe when it comes to climate change, then it’s a story you need to hear, too. Because while the New Zealand fight over climate data appears to finally be over, it’s part of a much larger, ongoing war against evidence-based science.

From number crunching to controversy

In 1981, as part of my PhD work, I produced a seven-station New Zealand temperature series known as 7SS to monitor historic temperature trends and variations from Auckland to as far south as Dunedin in southern New Zealand.

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http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/01/an-insiders-story-of-the-global-attack-on-climate-science/

[kristopher]

1. Further reading on Heartland

Sourcewatch, an overview that starts with outlining their deep involvement with ALEC:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute


Climate Progress targets their funding
EXPOSED: The 19 Public Corporations Funding The Climate Denier Think Tank Heartland Institute
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/02/17/428111/exposed-the-19-public-corporations-funding-the-climate-denier-think-tank-heartland-institute/

Media Matters explores their role in the climate denial messaging machine.
Meet The Climate Denial Machine
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545

[jsr]

2. Recommend

[Lunacee_2013]

3. K&R.

Good luck to any scientists who go against the climate change denial con-artists. Going up against all that money must be difficult.