It seems the “warmer” crowd is in the “circle the wagons” stage. They feel they’re being “attacked” they liken the people going after them to “McCarthyisn”, which I wrote about here. They’re basically very unhappy (to say the least) that people actually want to go after them for spending tax dollars on alleged fraudulent science. If you are unaware, Dr. Judith Curry was recently interviewed by Examiner,com San Francisco. Here is the link to Part 1. Part 2 hasn’t appeared yet. She claims it’s a “witch hunt” Here’s what John O’Sullivan has to say about that.
In the wake of the Climategate scandal establishment figures have been helping circle the wagons and head off unwelcome scrutiny by legal experts. The latest wagon-circler is Dr. Judith Curry, a member of NASA’s Climate Research Committee for three years. Now she is the self-appointed apologist for the unethical and some say, fraudulent, conduct of Penn. State University’s climate professor, Michael Mann. In an interview with Thomas Fuller of the Environmental Policy Examiner (May 4, 2010) this respected establishment scientist criticizes Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for doing his job. Dr. Curry somehow confuses an honest mistake with a deliberate pre-meditated criminal fraud. Her tirade was prompted by Cuccinelli’s legal demand for access to Mann’s records from his former employers at Virginia State University where the tree-ring researcher benefited by almost $500,000 in taxpayer funding.
You can read the rest at John O’ Sullivan’s site here. Or at Climate Realists here.
Source: John O’Sullivan
