Ugly attacks on Dr. Heidi Cullen.

This whole thing is amazing. Reading some of the comments left on her blog make me wish for a hastening of the doom just so these asshats will suffer. The levels of vitriol, misogyny, and ignorance are astounding. Not only does no reputable scientist deserve this level of ill informed public attack, but I have a sneaky suspicion that the comments might be a little less... graphic if she were Harry Cullen, instead of Heidi. This is a fucked up place and time, people. There is serious ugliness out there.

Drudge, that pig, is fanning the flames and cutting off his own nose to spite his face. He always cherry picks his news, obviously, but he usually takes the time to find a reputable source of news. This time he's gone too far, and is making a laughingstock of himself. He has linked to a diatribe by freak Melanie Morgan against Dr. Cullen from WorldNet Daily, a known and mocked almost cartoonish right wing site. Drudge looks like the fool here.

For the record, WorldNet Daily (no surprise here) has the facts wrong, claiming that Dr. Cullen is unqualified for her position, saying that "a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College. One must indeed have to believe in the mystical to accept anything Ms. Cullen has to say about climatology." LINK to freakishly stupid WorldNetDaily (I do not recommend clicking it but if you want proof of this piggishness, there it is)

The truth is actually that
"Heidi finished her assignment as a postdoctoral research scientist on a NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction in New York, comes to NCAR with expertise in two distinct areas: history and climate variability. She earned a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College before going to Columbia University for a bachelor's in engineering and operations research and a Ph.D. in climate variability.
Combining her interests, Heidi has studied historic drought and climate variability in the Middle East as well as the application of forecasts to water resource management in the La Plata Basin of South America. Her doctoral research at Columbia focused in part on the dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation as well as its impact on freshwater supplies in the Middle East. " LINK