Climate Scientists Attempt To Hide Research From The Public

Perhaps someone from the Warmist side can explain why so many climate scientists, who so often get the majority, if not all, of their funding via the government, which takes the money involuntarily from the citizens, do not want to share their data. On the one hand, they keep telling us that science is open, that there should be a free exchange of ideas. On the other, they always want to hide their work

(Daily Caller) The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) doesn’t want its unpublished climate change research seen by the public. The association is trying to block requests from a conservative think tank that wants to see what kind of research is being withheld from publication.

The College Fix reports that the AAUP has filed a brief with the Arizona Court of Appeals to stop the research efforts of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute from obtaining the data. The association suggested in a Friday news release that even though if a professor’s research his been conducted at a pubic university, it should not be available for the public to examine.

The association goes so far as describing the request for the research information as “harassment” because it “targeted” the professors engaged in that research. And they say it’s all about maintaining “a free and vital university system, which depends on the protection of academic freedom to engage in the free and open scientific debate necessary to create high quality academic research.”

Divulging the information “would have a severe chilling effect on intellectual debate among researchers and scientists,” the association says.

Warmists always have some excuse. What are they afraid of divulging? As one of the commenters notes, in regards to the last paragraph in the excerpt

Get your head around that. What they’re saying is that “intellectual debate” would be compromised by the introduction of all relevant information into the debate.

Correct.