Sunday, February 09, 2020

From Forbes:

February 9, 2020
By Roger Pielke

A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science (click here) hosts a list of academics that it has labeled “climate misinformers.” The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist. We know of this intent because one of the principals of Skeptical Science, a blogger named Dana Nuccitelli, said so last Friday, writing of one academic on their list, “if you look at the statements we cataloged and debunked on her [Skeptical Science] page, it should make her unhirable in academia.”


That so-called “unhirable” academic is Professor Judy Curry, formerly the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, and a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society. By any conventional academic metric, Curry has compiled an impressive record over many decades. The idea that she would be unhirable would seem laughable.


But there is nothing funny about Skeptical Science. Today, Curry should be a senior statesperson in the atmospheric sciences community. Instead, she is out of academia. She attributes that, at least in part, to being placed on the Skeptical Science blacklist and its use, as expressed by Nuccitelli, to make her “unhirable.”...


I can't really comment on the scientific writing that earned these folks the title of undesirable, except, in the case of politicians. The politician list is correct. They spew misinformation all the time. One would think that would not be the case of the Secretary of Energy, but, in the case of Perry, it is the case.

I also noticed there are two scientists named Roger Pielke, Sr. and Jr. I am assuming one is the author of this article. 

Climate Misinformation by Source (click here)