Scientists Behaving Badly

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Daniel Henninger critical of scientists who allowed the culture of Climategate to develop in their professions.

Christopher Essex, a leading Canadian applied mathematician and award-winning author, has written to Henninger.

Climategate is no surprise at all to us. Evidence for this is in my book with Ross McKitrick from 2002, Taken by Storm. It won a $10,000 prize, and is now in a second edition. But few were listening. If my book had a title like 'Oh, my God, we are all going to die', I am sure that it would have been on the NYT bestseller list at once.

Christopher Essex is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario.