"Climate Scientists" Oversell Anthropogenic GW?

The Houston Chronicle buries the lede in almost the last paragraph of a story on how some reputable young climatologists are feeling that their older colleagues may be overselling anthropogenic global warming. In particular, the connection between hurricanes and GW touted by Al Gore has most reputable scientists scratching their collective head. Other scary prognostications are also worst-case fear-mongering, they believe.

Everyone knows that tenure and grants are the lifeblood of academic careers, and the most ethical scientists have been warning for decades about the sirens of "Cargo Cult Science," as Richard Feynman dubbed the rush for money and perks by institutional Big Science. Here's the nut quote from the Chronicle story:

"I can understand how a scientist without tenure can feel the community pressures," says environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr., a colleague of Vranes' at the University of Colorado. Pielke says he has felt pressure from his peers: A prominent scientist angrily accused him of being a skeptic, and a scientific journal editor asked him to "dampen" the message of a peer-reviewed paper to derail skeptics and business interests.

Read the story and see how scientists are tempted to follow Pied Piper Al Gore just like lemmings with the same destination as Gore's political career.

On the rocks at the bottom of a cliff.

UPDATE: More on Big Science and the International Left at here