Dr. Spencer is a guy who puts his personal faith before rigorous science and who’s higher-calling is that of taxpayer watchdog dedicated to minimizing the role of government. He has a day job over at the University of Alabama Huntsville. Team Leader even, for the Advanced Scanning Radiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite where he’s racked up an epic string of, not just errors, but also deliberately misinforming leaders and citizens. Almost as though keeping people ill-informed is his goal.
My previous post contains a long collection itemizing the details which compels the above assessment. (Attacking me the messenger won’t change those hard facts!)
In this post I want to consider the mechanism that has encouraged and enabled this man to continue broadcasting his deception to the masses despite all the down to Earth evidence demonstrating that humanity's gluttonous burning of fossil fuels is already altering the living conditions on our planet.
It all started with a few small minds, but deep pockets. Minds obsessed with ensuring ever increasing power and profits for their chosen. Not surprisingly, such an attitude lead to a ruthless desire to crush all opposition, be it evidence or messengers, and damn the consequences.
These people have managed to create a fantastical alternate-universe consisting of a hermetically sealed echo-chamber peddling faux-science. In their world personal faith, desire and power are more important than honesty, rationality and objective learning. Nah, their product is disconnect and the delusion that it’s okay to ignore our impacts upon this Earth’s life supporting biosphere.
So who is part of this conspiracy against rationality and learning about our Earth that enables someone like Roy Spencer to get all that mileage on basically nothing but hot air? In the remainder of this post I share a report compiled by the The Union of Concerned Scientists, USA. It’s a brief review of some of the biggest players in this malicious campaign of deception.
American Enterprise Institute
Americans for Prosperity
American Legislative Exchange Council
Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University
Cato Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Heartland Institute
Heritage Foundation
Institute for Energy Research
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
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Union of Concerned Scientist
Global Warming Skeptic Organizations
