Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox 'conspiracy' is that 'liberals' stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change. Little did they realize, apparently, that the man responsible for the partisan polarization over the terminology of climate change vs. global warming is none other than FOX News contributor Frank Luntz...
read morePat Michaels Ousted as Virginia State Climatologist For Industry Funding
Pat Michaels Ousted as Virginia State Climatologist For Industry Funding
Pat Michaels, whose utility industry funding, private research and controversial views on global warming made him a lightning rod on climate change issues, left the office too politicized, according to officials at the University of Virgina.
As a result, Michaels is no longer the state's climatologist.
Pat Michaels, whose utility industry funding, private research and controversial views on global warming made him a lightning rod on climate change issues, left the office too politicized, according to officials at the University of Virgina.
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Great news.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
But, one thing: he never really was the "state climatologist", at least, not officially.
Here's the Think Progress post/link, which links to a couple of articles.
Virginia Asks Global Warming Skeptic To Stop Calling Himself ‘State Climatologist’
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/michaels-state-climatologist/
Hmmm . . .
. . . Where have I heard THAT before?
"Many of New Hope's [Michaels] clients provide funding to New Hope with the understanding that the funding will be confidential."
Wasn't there something about the NRSP protecting the identity of their contributors with the same excuse? It seems to me that they got tripped up quite spectacularly on that one.