Professor at US Naval Academy Calls out Warmist Bullies
Another hero – professor Mark Campbell of the US Naval Academy – tells it like it is!! Wouldn’t it be nice if liberals actually listened and weighed the facts and the evidence. Unfortunately they are too busy jumping on the latest bandwagon to worry about facts.
Calling out warmist bullies
Thomas Lifson
It should come as no surprise to find courage coming from the United States Naval Academy. But when the subject is global warming, it is a pleasant confirmation of a more general point. Professor Mark Campbell of the USNA is yet another hero from Annapolis. His response to name calling from a Baltimore Sun editorialist deserves an audience beyond Maryland.
The good professor wrote the following letter, published yesterday in the Sun:
According to the editorial “A New Year’s resolution” (Jan. 2), tens of thousands of scientists like me are “flat-earth types.”
I guess my doctorate in chemical physics from Johns Hopkins doesn’t give me nearly the qualifications to analyze the science associated with the global climate as an editor with an agenda.
If we are going to stoop to name-calling, an appropriate name for people with the view The Baltimore Sun endorses could be “Chicken Littles.” But instead of claiming that the sky is falling, they claim the sky is burning.
The editorial claims that there is a consensus among scientists that man-made carbon dioxide is causing global climate change; however, consensus in science is an oxymoron. From Galileo to Einstein, one scientist with proof is more convincing than thousands of other scientists who believe something to be true.
And I don’t even grant that there is a consensus among scientists; it’s just that the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical. To many of us, there is no convincing evidence that carbon dioxide produced by humans has any influence on the Earth’s climate.Arguing that our country should decrease its use of fossil fuels is a laudable goal, but the reason to do so should be to reduce our reliance on energy from foreign sources, not to reduce the danger from some imaginary boogeyman.
The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice.
Mark Campbell Annapolis
The writer is a professor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy.
The liberal media have taken upon themselves the role of enforcers of Al Gore’s global warming con game, resorting to insults to dismiss legitimate questioning of what is, after all, only a theory, one that has not been proven. It is very important to stand up and confront these bullies, challenging them, to defend their insults. The one thing that warmists fear most is a serious scientific debate. That’s why they always fall back on the phony claim of “consensus” – a claim that makes no sense, as science is not decided by consensus, and as more and more scientists stand up and puncture the claim.
Professor Campbell strikes me as a man worthy of his institution. And that is saying a lot.
LINK: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/calling_out_warmist_bullies.html
Don't Get Me Started... 
Professor Campbell:
Thank you for standing up to the global warming bullies. They use name calling to distract people from their lack of solid evidence.
My personal favorite is the professor from the University of Montana who shared in Al Gore’s Nobel prize on global warming. He says that people who disagree are just in denial and then in his talks he goes on to describe the stages of global warming grief (I’m not kidding), denial being the 1st stage, of course. These people are shameless manipulators with an agenda that is not based on the principles of freedom (economic or otherwise).
Thanks again,
Robyn Miller
Robyn Miller
February 2, 2009
Proffesor Campbell, thank you for being a true scientist who looks at evidence critically and doesn’t fall into “Consensus”. As a 26 year veteren retiree from the Navy it makes me Proud that they are still teaching real science at the USNA. It gives me hope for our future.
Alan Cerny
SCPO USN RET
Alan Cerny
February 28, 2009