Newly Leaked Emails: Nat'l Academy of Sciences Wants to Become AGW Activists

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach” to gut the credibility of skeptics.

In private e-mails obtained by The Washington Times, climate scientists at the National Academy of Sciences say they are tired of “being treated like political pawns” and need to fight back in kind. Their strategy includes forming a nonprofit group to organize researchers and use their donations to challenge critics by running a back-page ad in the New York Times.

“Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules,” Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University researcher, said in one of the e-mails.

Some scientists question the tactic and say they should focus instead on perfecting their science, but the researchers who are organizing the effort say the political battle is eroding confidence in their work.

http://m.washingtontimes.com//news/2010/mar/05/scientists-plot-to-hit-back-at-critics/

[Doc]

Whoa!!  They are going to organize......set up a non-profit......and buy a back page ad in the NYT!  That is really aggressive.......I'm sure the rest of the media will  love it, but last time I looked, the circulation for the NYT was down to public libraries, beauty shops, other media outlets, and a handful of moonbats......The "Grey Lady" hasn't sold out a single (ever shrinking) press run in fifteen years.......

Who do they think is going to read it?

Oh, and I think that they already did this themselves......who exactly made this "political" in the first place....

Some scientists question the tactic and say they should focus instead on perfecting their science, but the researchers who are organizing the effort say the political battle is eroding confidence in their work.

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[JohnnyReb]

Who do they think is going to read it?

doc

Parrots.