The American Spectator

Melvin L. Leppla br> Jacksonville, North Carolina /p> p> I fail to see what is so hard to understand. It is simply a matter of the Marxist/Socialists of the '60s now being in power. They could not abide, for the most part, taking real jobs and becoming productive member of a free society. Therefore, they, in droves, went into the academy, the arts, and the government bureaucracy industries. They are now in leadership positions in these institutions and we are seeing the product of their diligent and patient long-term progress toward their goal. br> — Ken Shreve /p> p> HANSEN HOAX br> Re: Patrick J. Michaels’s Hansen’s Hot Hype : /p>

Little wonder Pat Michaels envies NASA climate scientists getting so much “face time.” World Climate Report, the biweekly newsletter on climate studies Michaels edits at the coal industries expense, is hardly flying off the science library shelves.

Hansen, writes Michaels, says: “he is being censored….Why should we believe him now?” One reason is that Michaels’ sophomoric butchering of quotes from Hansen and climatologist Steve Schwartz is itself censorship of a very low order. The other is that Michaels is given to threatening lawsuits against scientists critical of his own contrarian views, most recently Peter Gleick, who told a Muncie, Indiana paper that Michaels “is one of a very small minority of nay-sayers who continue to dispute the facts and science about climate change in the face of compelling, overwhelming, and growing evidence…”