(12-15-2016 08:52 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(12-15-2016 08:13 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Unfortunate to see and hear, but luckily this man was supported by his fellow academics and university. When did he work for the DOE or other federal departments? I read through the blog and couldn't find any information on that.
Also, I found it even more interesting that this researcher was just researching the effects of climate change on serious weather, and ran into such strong opposition. He wasn't even debating whether we had an impact on climate change, just that we haven't seen the severe weather episodes (e.g. Strong hurricanes) that we would expect, recently. This is an unfortunate example of people with influence not doing their homework, and unfairly critiscizing someone. Again, good thing he had the strong support of the academic community.

So it would appear that you would agree that this is one instance of suppression of dissent. Is that correct? Do you believe there are no others? The Grijalva letters were sent to employers of, IIRC, seven dissenters. Would you agree that such actions were intentional suppressions of dissent?

He probably hasn't worked for DOE. With his views, nobody in DOE would hire him. I suppose that's suppression of dissent, too. He did work on the space program, so maybe he worked for NASA, although probably 99% of the people working on the space program are civilian contractors (I used to go to church with a bunch of them, and I work on a project with some of them now), so there's a strong possibility that he has never received a pay check from the federal government.

Pielke is actually quite a major voice on the skeptical side, and has been so for close to twenty years.