On Climategate
I’ve written about thinking global warming is bullshit there and here before.
Sure part of it is just me being cynical and not wanting to be duped by others who clearly have an agenda and have happened upon a very interesting and convenient political idea that has almost no downside, politically.
And in all of its liberal nambypambyness it’s sort of a man vs the world cause for those who lead it. They can control the earth if you let them control you and just a little of your money.
California liberal and menopause sufferer Barbara Boxer, always one to demand that the government give the citizens the straight dope, says this:
“You call it ‘Climategate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate,’”
Holy fuck.
Scientists and researchers in charge of something that has tax-payer and social implications deleting public research data and manipulating numbers and she’s going to try and prosecute some hackers in Russia for, um, hacking emails?
The size of the two issues don’t seem to match.
But what do the emails say? Well as Reuters comments, “… nothing game-changing”, well sure, because the movement is run by crooked activists. Of course idiots will believe what they want to believe.
Here is the point. If you’re going to act like Global Warming is as serious as Cancer, then there should be not one single person in your government funded and appointed movement who ever has to stretch the truth, “trick” the numbers, tip the scales, etc.
Example:
Skeptic Guy: Hey I don’t think Cancer is that bad.
Cancer Activist: Here’s a picture of a man dying of cancer.
Skeptic Guy: Ok, you’re right, I see that it is pretty bad after all.
On a related note i’d imagine that Barbara Boxer’s pre-global warming disaster chuff already rivals the aridity and dryness of places like Death Valley and the Kalahari Desert. Imagine the kind of drain-a-swimming-pool-with-absorbency that thing would have if this global warming thing is for real.
That, I think is the dialogue we should be having.
does anyone have a dollup of lotion i could borrow?
An excellent comment on George Will’s article titled The ClimateGate Travesty:
Teleologicus wrote:
When scientists and journalists become advocates their credibility and that of their professions suffers.
There is growing public skepticism and distrust of everyone and everything connected to the frantic promotion of global warming.
Advocates do not appear to realize that it is they themselves who are undermining their credibility, not their critics.
Many people and interests have a strong investment in the human-caused global warming theory. Money, power, faith, meaning and reputations are at stake.
The proletarian part of the movement is by far the largest and consists of alienated young(er) people who are poorly educated, confused about themselves and their lives, envious of others with greater material success, and desperate for some source of meaning and value in their lives. Participation in the theology-ideology of global warming fills a number of needs and fulfills many functions for such types. There is a raison d’etre, a justification of pre-existing discontent and malice, a means of rationalizing and discharging malice, a remedy for anomie, a transcendental cause and a crowd into which they can merge themselves, a mode of self-glorification and enhancement, and the sense of power and agency that comes with righteous indignation and the fight against evil. This vast human mass mass with its strivings and anxieties might be said to be the fuel that powers the movement. Global warming political theology is for them a source of meaning and a mode of redemption for the original sin of being human. They come close to pagan nature worship in their disguised religiosity.
The mass of global warming believers want the narrative to be true because if it were not true they would be lost and not know what to do with themselves – until, of course, the next popular fad comes along into which they can throw themselves for precisely the same personal reasons they succumbed to the global warming movement. The relation of such people to their cause has every aspect of religious belief.
It is said that Man is both a political and a rational animal – but it is less frequently noted that he is also a religious animal. There is going be be a religion, come what may. Science has now become the religion of the modern mass man. And the fact that he cannot hope to comprehend its mysteries himself and is therefore obliged to take the oracular proclamations of its high priests on faith alone simply adds to its aura of otherworldliness.
If global warming did not exist it would have to be invented. It fulfills an existential need for true believers, lends direction and meaning to their lives, ennobles their existence and, by concocting an apocalypse and an eschatology, supplies the frisson formerly associated with the Last Judgment and eternal damnation. Believers may dread the wrath to come but can in theory obtain remission of sins by declarations of fidelity and the practice of obeisance to the cult, a satisfyingly large portion of which consists of availing themselves of the moral-ethical free fire zone in which skeptics, unbelievers and infidels are targets of opportunity and fair game for every slander and act of personal malice.
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Why are they even bothering to do more research, didn’t they get Al Gore’s memo? The time for debate is over. It is time to start throwing money into the ocean as an offering to mother Gaia in penance for technology.
On the topic, here is a greate George Carlin rant about environmentalism and the arrogance of thinking that we control the environment. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw
Thanks John. I’m in China but I cant believe how little news this is getting. I mean, this seems important.
GC is right on. It’s all arrogance and attempts at control. People in charge will always look for new ways to control others. The earth ending or imminent death is a pretty hot one.
Its sort of sickening.