Seriously? You seriously want scientist to spend significant amounts of time — and grant money — fielding *any and all* requests , at any level of detail, about any of their publicly -funded work past and present, even from people highly motivated to *manufacture doubt* due to their political ideology and commercial interests, rather than scientific curiosity?

This is insane. Even the US government doesn’t require that of its scientific fundees.

Hilarious! I’m a biologist. Jetting hither and yon to consume champagne and cavier? Can’t say I can recall that happening. Guess I need to step up my game.

Is this really the sort of moronic crap Fox and the right-wing noise machine is feeding its troops these days? It’d be pathetic if it weren’t so dangerous.

There’s the sections of the economy based upon oil, gas, coal, all related processing and transportation industries, the retail arms, dependant industries including autos, shipping, aircraft manufacturing and support, it goes on and on.

Then there’s the scientific sector, the nascent solar power industry, geothermal, and wind industries. All told it’s smaller by, oh, about 10,000 times, than the carbon economy.

But don’t let me stop you. Talking rot IN ALL CAPS is what give you credibility. Really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdneX1djD0

I’m very puzzled by the author’s use of the phrase, “politically motivated data requests.”

It shouldn’t matter who the request is from. If anyone requests information from a taxpayer funded research entity, that information should be provided promptly.

“The doubt industry”
http://www.reformer.com/ci_13981983

So, riddle me this, if research funded by oil comapnies is biased then how is research funded by the druids or the government not biased? How do you get past the predispostition of the researcher to go out and get the data that the person/entity wants to see?

On another note, beings as how the CRU has been proven to be badly compromised why is it that NASA and NOAA haven’t released their databases? This entire sorry affair can be simply defused by cooperating with the FOIA requests that have been lawfully filed and illegally stonewalled for years.

Kind of like the current criminal in chief and his birth certificate, the question can be settled in seconds. This isn’t hard.

Is there a problem with climate change? Maybe, it depends on which bunch of zealots you want to listen to. Is mankinds contribution to climate change a factor, once again it’s hard to tell it depends on which bunch of zealots you want to listen to. However, from my chair the total absence of cooperation from the “sky is falling” crowd leads me toward the “Denialist “camp. Publish the data, prove the point and then let’s make some decisions. Don’t try to sell me a pig in a poke.