Bonkers
Note that they’re not planning to just get the science right, which would be a start. No, they’re going to attack sceptics:
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.
“This was an outpouring of angry frustration on the part of normally very staid scientists who said, ‘God, can’t we have a civil dialogue here and discuss the truth without spinning everything,‘” said Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment who was part of the e-mail discussion but wants the scientists to take a slightly different approach.
Erlich is the guy who once said we’d run out of oil by 1990, or something equally stupid and famously lost a bet to Julian Simon about the future prices of resources. Schneider is a serial bandwagon rider and was a global cooling alarmist in the 1970s, when that was the bandwagon-du-jour. Now of course it’s global warming, er, sorry, “climate change.”
Personally, I don’t consider myself a well-funded merciless streetfighter who plays by any rules other than getting to the scientific truth of climate change. These guys are off the freaking planet.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
So…….they are going to continue doing what they have been doing for 20 odd years???
Just a different angle of alarmism. You should be shaking in your boots Simon.
This is how Global Warming Science differs from science. It makes one wonder about science in general today. Imagine the scientific greats of the past, talking about getting (more) funding, fighting and taking out ads in papers to ‘prove’ their theories. This isn’t about science; it’s about money and politics.