Apparently the global warming zealots have decided that if they can’t destroy the facts, they will destroy anyone who questions them.

Dr. S. Fred Singer is an accomplished scientist whose outspoken questioning of global warming earned him one of the most outrageous media smear pieces ever aired. Dr. Singer’s accomplishments are too lengthy to list, but they include the invention of the instrument to measure stratospheric ozone.

Among his many prominent positions, he was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center and held key administrative posts in the EPA, DOT and Department of the Interior.

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ABC news reporter Dan Harris interviewed him for an hour at the International Climate Conference, and produced a three-minute TV broadcast which started out, “His fellow scientists call him a fraud, a charlatan and a showman.” Harris’ background information came from Greenpeace’s Kert Davies, who has no discernible scientific credentials.

Harris did not identify the fellow scientists, but referred to “unnamed scientists” from NASA, Princeton and Stanford. They are easily identifiable as James Hansen, whose inaccurate computer model kicked off the global warming frenzy, Michael Oppenheimer who was the first to declare “the debate is over,” before there were any scientific studies, and Stephen Schneider who proclaimed that, “We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”

In other words, lie.

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