{"id":12375,"date":"2013-12-04T17:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:19:39","slug":"dirty-art-character-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=12375","title":{"rendered":"The Dirty Art of Character Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a 2010\u00a0editorial<\/a>, the journal Nature<\/em> told\u00a0embattled climate scientists to wise up and “acknowledge that they are in street fight” with their nastiest detractors. At the time, this seemed like a reasonable admonition, since climate scientists were indeed under siege following an illicit disclosure of emails<\/a>\u00a0that put the climate science community in an unfavorable light. In truth, climate scientists were already grappling<\/a> with how to deal with their harshest critics.<\/p>\n

Purchase Xanax Without Prescription It’s probably safe to say that a few of these scientists are (understandably) embittered by this experience and that several have come to mirror their antagonists. You often see them trading rhetorical blows and insults on Twitter and in climate blogs. It’s quite a spectacle. At some point, you have to wonder if the endless sparring will exhaust all the combatants and perhaps run its course. For the sake of climate science, that can’t happen soon enough.<\/p>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/atms/ Meanwhile, the poisonous debate has grown worse, with self-appointed soldiers of the warring sides seeing enemies at every turn. Some of these climate soldiers are always on the lookout, like snipers, eager to take out (or at least undermine) a perceived foe. A case in point happened on Twitter today, when climate blogger\u00a0Dana Nuccitelli <\/a>fired this missive:<\/p>\n

Tramadol Online Purchase Tornado experts say @RogerPielkeJr<\/a> and Richard Muller are misleading the American public http:\/\/t.co\/QQZd3wFjQz<\/a> via @LiveScience<\/a><\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/ \u2014 Dana Nuccitelli (@dana1981) December 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/schedule-time/ This was news to me, as I’m pretty familiar with Roger’s work. So I clicked on Dana’s supporting link. It’s to an op-ed<\/a> by six leading tornado experts, including Harold Brooks<\/a>, who responded:<\/p>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription @RogerPielkeJr<\/a> @dana1981<\/a> Roger’s not referenced, just [Richard] Muller. We never even thought about Roger’s work in putting that together.<\/p>\n

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At this point, I asked<\/a> Dana to clarify which tornado experts claim Roger is “misleading the American public”? He didn’t respond. What he did do is move the goalposts<\/a>. But even that was incorrect, as Brooks quickly\u00a0pointed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get Ambien Prescription Online What happened next was astonishing: Rather than apologize, Dana twisted himself into semantic knots in an effort to show that Roger was in the wrong. I tried asking several more times:<\/p>\n

@dana1981<\/a>, Let me know when you find that tornado expert that says @RogerPielkeJr<\/a> is misleading the public.<\/p>\n

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https://www.secpeinvestments.com/contact/ I’ll let you know if I hear back.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, when chortling climate skeptics jumped into the Twitter fracas, Brooks let them know that he’d also been “misused by the denial side often enough before.”<\/p>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/cruise-cancellation/ So goes another day in the climate wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/ In a 2010\u00a0editorial, the journal Nature told\u00a0embattled climate scientists to wise up and “acknowledge that they are in street fight” with their nastiest detractors. At the time, this seemed like a reasonable admonition, since climate scientists were indeed under siege following an illicit disclosure of emails\u00a0that put the climate science community in an unfavorable light…. Buy Online Soma Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2557,2561,2721,2967],"tags":[835,846,851,1120,1708],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","category-climate-science","category-global-warming","category-select","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics","tag-climate-science","tag-global-warming","tag-tornadoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}