The billblog stands fully in support of Dr. Andrew Weaver, renowned climate scientist at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC — he is suing the National Post newspaper.

You can find more details HERE & HERE. Of course, thanks to DeSmogBlog.com for twigging me to this story.

Allegedly, the National Post printed untruths with regards to Dr. Weaver and failed to recant or make corrections when asked to do so.

In a country championing freedom of opinion, is it okay for media to use an incorrect set of facts to argue a position? If the reason for using incorrect information is sloppy journalism, propagandism, or the desire to bullshit on behalf of vested interests, are they not required by a just society to be held accountable?

One doesn't hear of scientists taking media to court. This is the first I have heard of such a thing. And yet, the media has hammered the bejeezus out of science and scientists with impunity and with growing intensity and frequency. The so-called climate debates show this all too clearly even though there's actually no debate in mainstream climate science about man-made global warming and climate change. They are unquestionably happening. Check this recent article from the Huffington Post.

Bob McDonald, host of CBC's Radio's science program, Quirks & Quarks wrote a fine article on the subject of the unrestrained bludgeoning of science back in December 2009. The title was this: "350 years of science now under siege". The billblog recommends it.

Back during the days of the Copenhagen Summit, I grew frustrated with the media's focus on a climate debate that didn't really exist in the science. I expected more of CBC quite frankly. I even wrote to Bob McDonald virtually pleading with him to petition Peter Mansbridge to put more real scientists on the news. I don't know if my pestering helped but Peter M. did do a Mansbridge One On One show with Dr. David Barber of the University of Manitoba. Check it out HERE. Dr. David Barber, for your info, is a scientist who has been going to the arctic ice for 25 years and measuring it in every possible way. When he says there's a problem with the diminishing multi-year ice pack, listen. He's the guy that does house-calls to the ice packs. Check out the interview HERE.

The public needs to hear from the folks measuring the atmosphere, the ice, the oceans and actually doing the science. I wish the public would demand of the media that they hear more often from the scientists who pass the rigors of the peer-review process.

It's insane to think that there's some kind of worldwide conspiracy of scientists to promote global warming. Jeez. Ever tried to fly a poorly thought out bit of idea-flotsam past a scientist? Those folks by nature challenge one another, confront, pick apart and dissect each other's arguments. No way for a group like that to conspire. Ridiculous notion.

So now we have Dr. Andrew Weaver standing up, saying enough already and joining with some legal folks to help him say so. The billblog supports Dr. Weaver in print and also, if it is necessary, will ask readers to contribute actual dollars to the cause. We have a scientist standing up and fighting back in an age of unrestrained vested interest bullshit. Even our government gags its own climate scientists. This is it. All aboard.

That this legal action is being undertaken by a Nobel Laureate climate scientist is a fantastic thing. It's the right thing to do. It's awesomeness in a world specializing in lameness. We must support Dr. Andrew Weaver.

I will be seeing Dr. Weaver and Elizabeth May speak tomorrow evening.

Stay tuned.