One Way That Ideological Coercion Is Being Deployed Against Climatologists

Jerry sent this last month. I immediately asked:

That's blogworthy. Do you mind if I post, or is it too sensitive?

Jerry initially balked, but today, he's had a change of heart:

You know what? Go ahead and post this if you want. I see no reason to coddle idiots!

The Department of Meteorology at San Jose State University was recently rechristened as the "Department of Meteorology and Climate Science". Recently, a link to a CO2 web site was added to the department homepage. In response, the department received this email:

We have always heard good things about your meteorology dept, and I even worked with some of your graduates over the course of my career. Now we are considering sending one of our employees on to graduate school in meteorology, and briefly considered SJSU, well, until we checked your web page and learned your understanding of CO2. Per your understanding of CO2 and your "global warming" beliefs, we will consider a different univeristy.

Good luck with that other university, thug! Every honest scholar in the world would rather eat nails than cater to your ignorance!

Nevertheless, I strongly suspect this E-Mail was not an honest inquiry at all, but rather, just a way to club scholars into submission.

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