[JR: Thanks.]

1) The majority of scientists around the world are incompetent (they do not interpret data correctly, for example.)
2) The majority of scientists around the world are afraid to publish alternate viewpoints to an AGW-forced climate despite the fact that they would become famous if they could refute AGW.
3) The majority of scientists around the world are conspiring in order to secure funding.
4) The majority of scientists around the world are just using group speak which implies that they do not think for themselves.

Instead, there are a small handful of scientists that do not fit any of the above points, rarely, if ever, publish their findings in a respected journal, but are the ones that many in the public are listening to.

Seems to be a very foolish position to take.

Scientists won’t go that far, and are cautious and circumspect by nature. But it may be about time for scientists in the relevant fields to step up and stop providing any cover to the CEI and Limbaugh crowd by engaging in Socratic dialogues with them. They should collectively and forcefully call out the deniers for what they are, and make a special point of alerting the public on the issue.

Climate Cover Up, the new Hoggan book, does this quite well. And your pieces over the years on this subject have been the most courageous and factually accurate of anyone’s, Joe, as the advancing science has proved. Thanks.

We are well familiar with the debunked refrains of “it warmed naturally in the past, so current warming cannot be known to be driven by humans.” Consider if that logic was being parroted with “someone somewhere destroyed the raw data, so no data anywhere can be trusted.” I think all efforts must be undertaken to not allow that to seep in, and I applaud the pushback against as in the statements from the scientists above.