jimpeel
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Save me the crap about the source. I've heard it all before so you will simply be wasting keystrokes that could be better used in meaningful 
debate ... er .. I mean snappy one-liners.
http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080327.html
Global Smearing
By Steven Milloy
March 27, 2008
By any standard, atmospheric physicist Dr. S. Fred Singer is a remarkably accomplished scientist. But his outspoken questioning of global warming alarmism has just earned him one of the most outrageous mainstream media smear pieces I’ve ever seen.
ABC News reporter Dan Harris interviewed Dr. Singer for more than an hour at the recent International Climate Conference. From that interview, Harris produced a 3-minute TV broadcast and website article that was about as fair and objective towards Dr. Singer as I might expect Greenpeace to be.
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Armed with a doctorate from Princeton University, Dr. Singer played a key role in the U.S. Navy’s development of countermeasures for mine warfare during World War II. From there, Dr. Singer went on to achieve fame in space science.
Some of his major accomplishments include: using rockets to make the first measurements of cosmic radiation in space along with James A. Van Allen (1947-50); design of the first instrument for measuring stratospheric ozone (1956); developing the capture theory for the origin of the Moon and Martian satellites (1966); calculating the increase in methane emissions due to population growth which is not key to global warming and ozone depletion theories (1971); and discovering orbital debris clouds with satellite instruments (1990).
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Among his many prominent positions, Dr. Singer was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center and the first dean of the University of Miami’s School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences. He’s also held many senior administrative positions at federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation and Department of Interior.
Despite this illustrious bio, ABC News’ Harris was apparently too busy swallowing the Greenpeace caricature of Dr. Singer to do any research on the actual man
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In the eco-activist tradition of willful ignorance and ad hominem attack, Greenpeace’s Kert Davies said of Dr. Singer, “He’s kind of a career skeptic. He believes that environmental problems are all overblown and he’s made a career on being that voice.”
Right, Kert. Dr. Singer is just now making his career.
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What about Davies’ qualifications and accomplishments? I couldn’t find them on the Greenpeace web site. I couldn’t find them through a Nexis search. Is it possible that their Internet absence is indicative of their general nature?
All that I could find out about Davies is that the media has often used quotes from him in the role of a spokesman for various eco-activist groups since the mid-1990s.
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debate ... er .. I mean snappy one-liners.http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080327.html
Global Smearing
By Steven Milloy
March 27, 2008
By any standard, atmospheric physicist Dr. S. Fred Singer is a remarkably accomplished scientist. But his outspoken questioning of global warming alarmism has just earned him one of the most outrageous mainstream media smear pieces I’ve ever seen.
ABC News reporter Dan Harris interviewed Dr. Singer for more than an hour at the recent International Climate Conference. From that interview, Harris produced a 3-minute TV broadcast and website article that was about as fair and objective towards Dr. Singer as I might expect Greenpeace to be.
...
Armed with a doctorate from Princeton University, Dr. Singer played a key role in the U.S. Navy’s development of countermeasures for mine warfare during World War II. From there, Dr. Singer went on to achieve fame in space science.
Some of his major accomplishments include: using rockets to make the first measurements of cosmic radiation in space along with James A. Van Allen (1947-50); design of the first instrument for measuring stratospheric ozone (1956); developing the capture theory for the origin of the Moon and Martian satellites (1966); calculating the increase in methane emissions due to population growth which is not key to global warming and ozone depletion theories (1971); and discovering orbital debris clouds with satellite instruments (1990).
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Among his many prominent positions, Dr. Singer was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center and the first dean of the University of Miami’s School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences. He’s also held many senior administrative positions at federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation and Department of Interior.
Despite this illustrious bio, ABC News’ Harris was apparently too busy swallowing the Greenpeace caricature of Dr. Singer to do any research on the actual man
...
In the eco-activist tradition of willful ignorance and ad hominem attack, Greenpeace’s Kert Davies said of Dr. Singer, “He’s kind of a career skeptic. He believes that environmental problems are all overblown and he’s made a career on being that voice.”
Right, Kert. Dr. Singer is just now making his career.
...
What about Davies’ qualifications and accomplishments? I couldn’t find them on the Greenpeace web site. I couldn’t find them through a Nexis search. Is it possible that their Internet absence is indicative of their general nature?
All that I could find out about Davies is that the media has often used quotes from him in the role of a spokesman for various eco-activist groups since the mid-1990s.
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