A witch hunt against climate scientists?

[jpak]

http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/430032_JOEL12.html?source=mypi

Home in Seattle from studying birds and witnessing climate change at Cooper Island in the Arctic, Dr. George Divoky demonstrated to friends on Wednesday night that you can film an advancing polar bear while scaring off the bruin by shooting over its head.

Polar bears, displaced southward by disappearance of sea ice, have taken refuge on Cooper Island (north of Barrow, Alaska) and are eating baby Black Guillemots, the birds that Divoky has studied since the mid-1970's.

The scientist is now using hard plastic nest sites as a means of sheltering guillemot chicks from hungry polar bears. "The species survives in bomb shelters," Divoky said.

As a climate scientist, Divoky may soon find himself as potential prey to a species with far less grace and class than polar bears -- newly empowered Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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[old mark]

1. Given the "religious" beliefs of so many of them, I believe we will see the

end of much science that is in any way funded by the Federal government.
At least they are not talking about burning scientists at the stake....yet.

mark

[jpak]

2. A new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science

yup

[Kennah]

3. For a glimpse of the future ...

... watch "Idiocracy" and "Wall-E", take the worst aspects of both, toss out the happy endings, and there you have it.