Think Ross Gelbspan is a long-forgotten figure from the past in the minds of enviro-activists? Think again.<\/p>\n
In a Tweet<\/a> from two and a half months ago, Slate.com’s Eric Holthaus castigated meteorologists as people who are steered by their political motivations<\/a> to ‘deny climate change’:<\/p>\n Political ideology is a leading indicator of whether or not meteorologists accept mainstream climate science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Responding directly to Holthaus, Daily Kos Contributing Editor Laurence Lewis tells the following story via a trio of tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n @EricHolthaus Mid ’90s I briefly dated a meteorologist who was working at SFO. She hadn’t been taught ANYTHING about climate change…<\/p>\n She thought it was a crock. One night while she was working, I read her some Gelbspan, from Harper’s<\/span>. She bought his book…<\/p>\n Soon was teaching her colleagues about climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Think about the irony here. Enviro-activists routinely vilify any meteorologist who questions the notion of catastrophic man-caused global warming by saying the person has no expertise in the matter<\/a>. However, here we have a suddenly enlightened meteorologist informing her colleagues about the issue as the direct result of reading a book authored by a revered investigative journalist<\/a> who \u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0\u2022 was not a climate expert himself<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 has never won a Pulitzer<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 is besieged with problems in his narratives<\/a> about his alleged ‘discovery’ of industry-corrupted skeptic climate scientists<\/p>\n \u2022 has not yet told the world what investigative process he undertook that caused him to obtain leaked material<\/a> which legions of people quote as evidence indicting skeptic climate scientists of conspiring with industry people to lie to the public<\/p>\n Now, think just how much wider this entire ‘enlightened by Gelbspan’ situation might be. By way of example, I encountered a similar ‘enlightenment’ attempt back in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then consider the day-old news of Senator Ed Markey’s proposal for a bill<\/a> in which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would establish a nationwide education program for school kids on “climate change and its effects on environmental, energy, social, and economic systems<\/em>.”<\/p>\n What name do we already see in a 2007 NOAA document titled “Bibliographic Resources for Teachers”? Ross Gelbspan<\/a>.<\/p>\n