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Scientists urged to defend man-made global “warming” research…”or risk losing work”

Nothing demonstrates the soundness and independence of science quite like threatening job losses, no?  Details:

Britain’s Met Office has embarked on an urgent exercise to bolster the reputation of climate-change science after the furor over leaked e-mails, referred to as “Climate-gate.”More than 1,700 scientists have agreed to sign a statement defending the “professional integrity” of global warming research. They were responding to a round-robin request from the Met Office, which has spent four days collecting signatures. The initiative is a sign of how worried it is that e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia are fueling skepticism about man-made global warming at a critical moment in talks on carbon emissions.

One scientist said that he felt under pressure to sign the circular or risk losing work. The Met Office admitted that many of the signatories did not work on climate change.

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One scientist told The Times of London he felt pressure to sign. “The Met Office is a major employer of scientists and has long had a policy of only appointing and working with those who subscribe to their views on man-made global warming,” he said.

Quips Ace:

The science is settled; your contract extension? Maybe not so much.

Heh.

2009 may go down as the year that the junk science fad known as global “waming” began to die, but the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) won’t let it go down without a fight.

December 10, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | global warming