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The following article from ClimateScienceWatch.org was posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 and is available in its entirety at the following Web address: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/sensenbrenner-ipcc-witchhunt/ Title: "Sensenbrenner IPCC witch-hunt: Attempt to blacklist climate scientists must be rejected" Introduction: Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin), ranking Republican on the House global warming committee, has sent a letter to Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, calling for scientists whose names appear in the e-mails stolen from the U.K. Climatic Research Unit to be blacklisted from participating as contributors or reviewers of the forthcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.  Sensenbrenner is engaged in an outrageous McCarthyist jihad against the climate science community, making it abundantly clear that this controversy is not really about stolen e-mails, which have been misused and misinterpreted.  Rather it is part of an aggressive campaign by the global warming denial machine to bully and intimidate the science community.  Sensenbrenner shows no real interest in meaningful dialogue, nor in an honest examination of climate science findings.  Denialists are throwing up a smokescreen of propaganda in an attempt to legitimize their refusal to come to grips with scientific evidence on global climatic disruption and its implications. This is a power play. Climate Science Watch calls on the IPCC to rebuff this attack.  We call on the Obama Administration and in particular the President’s science adviser John Holdren to fully support the U.S. climate science community in this matter.  We call on Sensenbrenner’s colleagues in Congress to chastise him for this censorious anti-scientist behavior.  And we call on members of the science community to understand what the denial machine is up to and not allow themselves to be divided by innuendo about and attacks on scientists who have been singled out as immediate targets of a larger predatory attack on the community as a whole. Seeking an IPCC purge is just the next step. This attack, using guilt-by-association and demagogy, will go as far as it can to delegitimize the entire climate science and assessment enterprise if it is not exposed and thwarted.  (See Details for the Sensenbrenner letter and press release.)