Peter Vincent Ridd is an Australian
physicist, author, and former professor at
James Cook University (JCU), North Queensland, Australia. Ridd is known for his participation in a media campaign
seeking to discredit the science informing the protection of the
Great Barrier Reef.
Great Barrier Reef article
With Piers Larcombe, Ridd wrote an
opinion piece in November 2017, published in the January 2018 issue of
Marine Pollution Bulletin, challenging the prevailing understanding of the state of the
Great Barrier Reef, drawing attention to what he argued was a
reproducibility crisis and certain specific papers relating to the state of the Great Barrier Reef, and recommending a new review body for
policy science. A viewpoint article in rebuttal was printed in the April 2018 issue of the same journal by Schaffelke
et al. Ridd replied in a further article in the June 2019 issue.
Dismissal from JCU
Beginning in April 2016, James Cook University took a number of disciplinary measures over two years against Ridd, which culminated in Ridd being fired, for refusing to take down confidential information which he had placed publicly online. The university denied that the dismissal was over Ridd's views on climate change. Ridd filed two
crowdfunded lawsuits, the second over the dismissal.
On 16 April 2019, Ridd initially won the lawsuit, with James Cook University found to be in violation of the
Fair Work Act 2009; in September 2019, Ridd was awarded in excess of AU$1 million, together with AU$125,000 pecuniary penalty. While the two parties continue to disagree whether the case related to academic freedom, the ruling judge said the case was "purely and simply about the proper construction of a clause in an enterprise agreement", although he also stated James Cook University had "not understood the whole concept of intellectual freedom". In July 2020, JCU won an appeal against this judgement from the full bench of the
Federal Court.
[14][15] Ridd appealed to the
High Court of Australia, but that appeal was dismissed.
So, Ridd was not a climate scientist and this action had nothing to do with climate science and the last entry in that legal history has him losing his case against Cook University
He might have, but Clauser was never a climate scientist and had retired well before ever expressing any AGW denier sentiments.
Noam Chomsky is a linguist and is currently 94 years old.
Shellenberger is an author and a public relations professional, not a climate scientist.
Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is an American author and former public relations professional who writes about politics, the environment, climate change and nuclear power, as well as how he believes
progressivism is linked to
homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness, and more recently the lab leak hypothesis and UFO claims. He is a co-founder of the
Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition. He is also the founder of Environmental Progress.
A controversial figure, Shellenberger disagrees with most
environmentalists over the impending threats and the best policies for addressing them. He argues that
global warming is "not the end of the world,"
[4] and that
GMO, industrial agriculture,
fracking, and nuclear power are actually important tools in protecting the environment.
His writing on climate change and environmentalism have received criticism from environmental scientists and academics, who have called his arguments "bad science" and "inaccurate". Response to his work from journalists has been mixed. In a similar manner, many academics criticized Shellenberger's positions and writings on homelessness, while receiving mixed reception from writers and journalists on the topic.
Shellenberger ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California in 2018 and 2022.
Wikipedia's article covers several works he published and while many of them received unfavoable responses, I see no instances whatsoever of any censoring him.
Was I unaware of what? You have not identified a single instance supporting your initial claim that "To get back to full scientific consensus
[among climate scientists on manmade global warming], those who have spoken out will now be defunded, cancelled, and sacked."
www.realclimate.org
bbickmore.wordpress.com
www.nytimes.com
blog.hotwhopper.com
