Naomi Oreskes’s career is an excellent example of how academics benefit from the global warming scare.  She managed to be promoted from the University of California to a position at Harvard.  Her main claim to fame is the book Merchants of Doubt, written with co-author Erik Conway.  Conway is a science historian at NASA. Now Merchants of Doubt has been made into a movie of the same name – and a box office failure. The theme of Merchants of Doubt is that global warming skeptics are fossil fuel company hacks, paid to spread doubt and confusion, or else they are fanatical anti-communists who see sinister communist influence everywhere.  Opposing these villains are sincere scientists dumbfounded that anyone would make such evil attacks on their completely sound science. The movie has been disconcertingly pasted together from clips spanning decades.  The skeptic scientist Fred Singer appears many times.  We see the 50-year-old Singer and...(Read Full Article)