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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (7469)	4/24/2009 11:26:21 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

>> "My son in law teaches physics and climatology and I do not know what else. He is primarily a teacher. He gets paid to teach. Is that legitimate? Work he does on global warming he does as an aside to his teaching." So - did he turn down the job opportunity at MAJOR university to form a department to study GW?<< NO, he took the job, and he both teaches and does research. Most research scientists also teach. His univeristy wanted to strengthen their research department. That is normal for any univeristy. It is why Princton hired Einstein. It is why UC Berkeley has more nobel prize winners than any other university. His dad teaches at Berkeley. It is why universities hire world class scientists all the time. They also know a strong academic department draws other top academics. He also got an invitation to interview for a research and teaching position at Columbia university in England where Stephen Hawking is. He did not go to the interview as he and my daughter did not want to be so far from family. Because my son in law, is recognized as a world class Global Warming, AND ATMOSPHERIC scientist, they gave him immediate tenure if he would come down from the university of Washington where he was studying global warming and strengthen their resarch program in atmospheric science. I hope you would at least know we need to study global warming? But he does double duty teaching physics, thermodynamics (he had a big class on that one last year) climatology and I would guess chemistry, as that is his profession. You think Exxxon can objectively study global warming and yet you question the intentions of a simple professor and research scientist who is only paid wages. His teaching alone earns him his measily professors pay. I have always known you thought through your dogmatic ideology, but you have become a parody of yourself and paranoid as well it seems. My son in law is a very fine young man of conscience who treats my daughter wonderfully, is socially and environmentally responsible and a professor and scientist of the highest caliber. They waited until they were in their mid 30's to have one child as they were so poor!! My daughter is a lawyer and only works part time so she can spend most of her time raising their young child. My SIL has no other agenda than finding the truth, as most scientists do. He does not shade the truth for some "financial gain". Most professors and scientists do not do that. Just as high school teachers do not do that. They just teach and do research. Your thinking that he would do science primarily for the pay, is just plain crazy and reflective of an angry old man who is no longer thinking clearly. I feel sorry for your wife and children having to put up with you.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (7469)	4/24/2009 2:03:14 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 86356

So let me get this straight. According to your screwed up philosophy, anyone in academia is suspect, because they have been bought and paid for by the global warming advocates? So have the majority of scientists in the world also been bought and paid for? Bob, you are a conspiracy theorist with a pointy tin hat. I bet when your doctor told you to avoid cholesterol and smoking for heart health, you just laughed him off as a worry wart, eh? I'm not nearly as nice as Koan, so I'll just call a spade a spade. You are a great example of a modern day troglodyte.