Originally Posted by
mjohansen
Ohhhhhh, taking money from bad fossil fuel companies that wants a climate scientist to do hurricane forecasting. Bad bad girl.
It does show a conflict of interest. It is also something that suspiciously occurs with the vast majority of deniers. They end up producing “research” that just so happens to deny science that may cause those companies financial harm. Just like how the aforementioned Heartland Institute just happened to produce scientific “research” that showed smoking wasn’t dangerous when they were funded by Tobacco companies. Just a co-incidence though, nothing more....
An yes she left Georgia Tech a year ago to focus on her own consulting business. So what? Doesn't change the over 180 published papers she did while being a professor.
How many of them refute the notion of human induced climate change? How many made the scientific community wake up and realise they were wrong? Zero.
Doesn’t matter how many papers she published in total, if none of them definitely refuted the facts on climate change then it’s irrelevant.
And she didn’t just leave academia to focus on a private business, she openly admitted on her own blog she was sick of the wider scientific community refuting her work. Sounds like she threw the toys out of the pram on that one.
I know other scientists think of her as a heretic, yes a heretic, because she doesn't subscribe to the so-called consensus. Welcome to the climate inquisition.
It isn’t the “so-called consensus”, it’s a scientific fact, as I explained to you in my previous post.
Her side is like the religious powers that be at the time of the inquisition, not using the scientific method, not conducting valid research, and instead using gobbledygook to back up their debunked “theories”.
The reason she is disliked by the scientific community is because she is just plain incompetent.
It seems she was widely respected in academia, and did produce work about 15 years ago showing a link between climate change and increased hurricane severity, that upset a lot of denier snowflakes, who deeply criticised her. She obviously took it to heart, and tried to reach out to the deniers. They got to her, and she started spouting the same nonsense they did. That’s when she started producing “research” that was critiqued by every other scientist.