Another Firing on Global Warming

          There has been another firing for disbelief in the mainstream of man-made global warming.

          Dr Caleb Rossiter - an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC - has been fired by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming. Dr. Rossiter had been with the IPS for 23 years.

          His sacking is being related to the persecution last month of Lennart Bengtsson, a Swedish meteorologist and climatologist who decided to resign his position at the Global Warming Policy Foundation after being harassed by climate alarmists for his "incorrect" views on man-made climate change.

          But there are some significant differences.

          Wikipedia says the IPS is considered a left-wing organization by some. Harvey Klehr, professor of politics and history at Emory University, in his 1988 book Far Left of Center: said that IPS "serves as an intellectual nerve center for the radical movement, ranging from nuclear and anti-intervention issues to support for Marxist insurgencies". Joshua Muravchik, a former scholar with the American Enterprise Institute has also accused the institute of communist sympathies. Furthermore, it has been accused by the FBI of being a "think factory" that helps to "train extremists who incite violence in U.S. cities, and whose educational research serves as a cover for intrigue, and political agitation."

          With that background, I wonder why Dr. Rossiter maintained a relationship with the IPS for 23 years, unless he had similar sympathies. He probably did and only recently started to make a change in his own philosophy, when faced with some scientific facts.

          However, it is not unreasonable for the IPS to have terminated Dr. Rossiter. Clearly, it is unreasonable for any organization to have employees who are distinctly opposed to the policy line of the organization, whatever one may believe concerning the legitimacy of the policy line.