Another prominent scientist has resigned from an important governmental panel looking at climate change, charging politicization of climate science. Roger Pielke Sr., Colorado state climatologist and professor at Colorado State University Fort Collins, last Saturday resigned from the U.S. government’s Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), where he was a lead author of a chapter of the program's synthesis and assessment product committee. This event has been fairly widely publicized and is described in more detail at Pielke's website and with commentary at the CRC's GreenWatch.
What is also interesting is the following quote from today's NY Times in an article regarding religion and science.
"...these scientists also embrace science as it has been defined for centuries. That is, they look to the natural world for explanations of what happens in the natural world and they recognize that scientific ideas must be provisional - capable of being overturned by evidence from experimentation and observation. "
So, Pielke is the one, in this case who remains true to what science is about--NOT the CSPP. Perhaps CCSP needs to change their name.