USRTK's attack is reminiscent of 'Climategate', where the release of private emails did immense, unwarranted damage to the reputations of climate scientists.
The sixth-grade geography text asks students to compare texts from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a Nobel Prize in 2007, with one from the Heartland Institute, a conservative think-tank that has misrepresented climate science and attacked the reputations of climate researchers.
Moreover, any significant and early development of the industry is likely to prove either economically unwise or risk jeopardising the UK's international reputation on climate change.
That's why it is so tragic that the UK has lost much of its reputation for climate leadership over the past seven months, as George Osborne has ordered the dismantling of climate and energy policies developed over many years and with cross-party consensus.
Strong words, and true ones too, but Gleick himself has failed to live up to them — and his actions have hurt not just his own professional reputation but the cause of climate science as well.
"But CO2 has developed such a bad reputation as the cause of climate change that we have to really explain how harnessing its attributes is part of the solution, not the cause".
It is up to you to make sure they work or you will soon gain a reputation; our climate of instant information, via blogs and Twitter, means news of a badly tested recipe will travel faster than a good one.
The most egregious example of this latest contortion of logic found its way into the purportedly "mainstream" Daily Mail, courtesy of columnist David Rose, who admittedly has a bit of a reputation for misrepresenting climate scientists and climate science.
This news comes just days before the new President takes office – an administration with a reputation for downplaying the effects of climate change (or ignoring its existence entirely).
In May, Tong announced that Kiribati had spent $8.7 million to buy 22 square kilometers of land on Vanua Levu in Fiji as a haven for displaced citizens, cementing his nation's global reputation as an early victim of climate change.
