In private conversations, people are sometimes unguarded -- FILM AT 11

The latest revelations about the private discussions of climate scientists are so shocking, so disturbing, I can barely bring myself to type the words.

You see, my fair readers, accredited professionals in the field of climate science don't think much of the cranks and frauds out there polluting the discourse. I know! Shocking! Even worse, they use some impolite language to express their opinions. Clearly, the entire scientific edifice of climate change will come a-tumbling down.

The whole thing makes me laugh. I've had more than a few discussions with climate scientists as I finished up my degree this year, and the idea of getting excited because of the language in the emails is hilarious. I've had a climate scientist start a sentence, referring to a prominent Canadian climate skeptic, "he's so fucking stupid..." before he remembered the recorder was on. Calling the deniers "idiots" is relatively tame, compared to what some have said to me on the record. Of course, they aren't fond of reporters either, which led to further paint-peeling uses of their substantial vocabularies.

Comments

[litbrit]

Too funny.

If you want to hear some paint-peeling language, you need to be in Florida when there's a hurricane approaching. The meteorologists work crazy-long shifts, are constantly being updated and interrupted, and at the end of fourteen or more on-air hours, they can definitely get a little salty and unguarded, to put it mildly.

I dunno though, John--maybe we need a Meteorologists' Civility Panel or similar? *ducks*

[Prup (aka Jim Benton)]

A "Meteorologists Civility Panel?' Oh, sure, now the government wants to control the weather reports you are getting supplying the information to all those independent private companies that operate in the true capitalist tradition.

Don't you UNDERSTAND? The next thing that will happen is that the weather forecasters will be ordered by the Weather Czar not to broadcast hurricane warnings if the storm is heading to rich white areas, only if they might impact cities whetre nig... that is, poor Democratic voters live. Yet another way the eugenicists behind Obama are proceeding on their evil plan of population control and assuring their permanent...

Oh, wait. The government already supplies most of the data those companies use.

Never mind.