The enviro nuts and the MSM have the long knives out for Virginia
state climatologist Pat Michaels for his critical analysis of
global-warming research. But Jay Zieman, the chairman of U.Va.’s
environmental sciences department, is backing him, at least for the
time being. This from the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Zieman said Michaels is well-respected as a scientist. “He publishes
in these peer review journals, and he’s doing good work and it’s
accepted by the scientific community,” he said.Zieman also said academic freedom is important, no matter how
unpopular a scientist’s findings. “We found out in Iraq that freedom is
messy. So can academic freedom be messy. Persons do have the right to
have a minority opinion.”
This is the second day
of stories or editorials about Michaels in Virginia’s major papers.
We’ll see if Zieman’s admirable support continues as the heat
increases, as it surely will.
