Apparently the global warming zealots have decided that if they can’t destroy the facts, they will destroy anyone who questions them.

Dr. S. Fred Singer is an accomplished scientist whose outspoken questioning of global warming earned him one of the most outrageous media smear pieces ever aired. Dr. Singer’s accomplishments are too lengthy to list, but they include the invention of the instrument to measure stratospheric ozone.

Among his many prominent positions, he was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center and held key administrative posts in the EPA, DOT and Department of the Interior.

ABC news reporter Dan Harris interviewed him for an hour at the International Climate Conference, and produced a three-minute TV broadcast which started out, “His fellow scientists call him a fraud, a charlatan and a showman.” Harris’ background information came from Greenpeace’s Kert Davies, who has no discernible scientific credentials.

Harris did not identify the fellow scientists, but referred to “unnamed scientists” from NASA, Princeton and Stanford. They are easily identifiable as James Hansen, whose inaccurate computer model kicked off the global warming frenzy, Michael Oppenheimer who was the first to declare “the debate is over,” before there were any scientific studies, and Stephen Schneider who proclaimed that, “We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”

In other words, lie.

Dr. Singer is not alone. Dr. John Christy who, along with Dr. Roy Spencer of NASA, monitors the NASA satellites which measure global temperatures, is also under attack. One article referred to him as “a missionary in Africa who suddenly decided to declare himself an expert on climate.” Yes, he was once a missionary in Africa between undergraduate and graduate school, before earning his Ph.D. in climatology.

Recently two climate expert wannabes from an obscure institute published a paper in which they claimed that Dr. Christy’s method of converting radio signals into temperature measurements was flawed, and that they had corrected the data to show, not an insignificant warming of 0.6 degrees Celsius in the last century, but a warming of seven degrees.

In a personal communication, Dr. Christy told me that the data they corrected were not his, but their own, which were seriously flawed. He agreed that they were correct in stating that his method introduced an error, and promised a publication which would clarify the issue. He then published a marvelously understated paper in the prestigious journal “Science,” in which he thanked the authors for their contribution, and agreed that they were correct in stating that his method introduced an error.

He then published the result of his recalculations which showed that he understated global warming by 0.035 degrees per decade, which is too small to measure.

Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, who is often referred to as the world’s leading climatologist, put it best.

In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, titled “CLIMATE OF FEAR: Global warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into submission,” he wrote: “There is a sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided and have been labeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks, or worse. Alarm, rather than genuine scientific curiosity is essential to monetary funding. Only the most senior scientists today can stand up against the fear mongers, and defy the iron triangle of climate scientists, advocates and policy makers."  Source

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