Shitstain's Efforts To Discredit Climate Science A Parade Of Shills & Clowns; Lindzen, Curry, Happer
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The list of researchers who have been approached or discussed includes: Judith Curry, a former professor at the Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Richard Lindzen, a retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who has called those worried about global warming a "cult"; and John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and a newly installed member of EPA's Science Advisory Board. A leader of the effort is Steven Koonin, a New York University professor and former undersecretary for science in the Department of Energy in the Obama administration. It's possible the review will also include scientists who agree with the vast majority in the field of climate science that humans are warming the planet at a pace unprecedented in the history of civilization.
Koonin has been actively recruiting participants for the effort. He and Happer worked with former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to conduct a "red team, blue team" climate debate at EPA, which would also have taken an adversarial approach to scientific peer review, but that effort was ultimately scuttled by former White House chief of staff John Kelly. The new group plans to take a close look at the recent congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, which found that "the impacts and costs of climate change are already being felt in the United States, and changes in the likelihood or severity of some recent extreme weather events can now be attributed with increasingly higher confidence to human-caused warming."
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One group that will be excluded from the White House effort is the Heartland Institute, according to those who have participated in preliminary discussions.
Happer and other researchers involved have been featured speakers at the group's events. But some participants have said they will not join the review if researchers from Heartland — which has received millions of dollars from the Mercer family — are included because a Heartland-led effort would not be considered a serious science review.
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