re: #27 jlakely

Glad to hear it, LVQ. (And I’m tickled that my “like” meter keeps plummeting for merely asking that criticisms of The Heartland Institute be based in fact rather than conjecture, links that don’t actually say what the words in the post promise, etc.)

Jim

You mince words when you claim that Giaever is not in your pay. An honorarium is income, reportable as such on federal income tax returns. Maybe it’s not a lot of money. Maybe it’s standard practice in your line of work. You can’t get scientists to say what you want them to say for free, after all. But it’s pay.

You have one little point. There doesn’t seem to be any proof, at least not yet, that you’ve paid Giaever on a scale that goes beyond the matter of honoraria. You may be certain that this community of readers will keep digging.

You, on the other hand, are actively at work digging the graves of millions. As I write, fires still smolder near hard-hit Bastrop, Texas. The drought goes on. Now global warming is but one contributing factor. It’s hotter than it would have been but for our extra CO2 blanket, and other things play into a drought than merely the rate at which soil moisture evaporates. But you are, so far is it lies within your power, working to prevent us from understanding that we must defend ourselves from more of the same.

If you had the courage, and that’s asking a lot, you might ask yourself whether you’re in the wrong camp. You could read up on the actual science. You could figure it out. And you could renounce your current vocation. You’re doing tremendous harm.

John Newton came over from the dark side. his story