Warming 'proved' by consensus
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | January 23, 2008 | Editorial
Tired of having to defend their dubious theory of anthropic climate
change, warmists unilaterally declared victory in 2005, thereby
setting a new scientific standard of proof: consensus. No longer must
they test their hypothesis rigorously and repeatedly as the scientific
method demands. Henceforth, anything they feel is proof shall be
deemed proof. All information contrary to the teachings of St.
Internet Al shall be declared heresy and suppressed, and all heretics
— "deniers" — shall be vilified lest others take their arguments
seriously.
Just as evil comes in many forms, so do deniers. ***** Cheney deniers
shill for Haliburton and Big Oil. Big Tobacco deniers lie about
warming's potential effect on public health. Enola Gay deniers wield
the "WMDs of climate change." Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deniers gainsay the
holocaust of warming. Madeline Murray O'Hare deniers won't pray at the
altar of climate change. Josef Stalin deniers promote climatological
genocide. Josef Goebbels deniers spread lies. Asteroid deniers abet
mankind's extinction. Deniers also are guilty of raping the
environment; let's call them Bill Clinton deniers.
That warmists would trivialize the Holocaust, genocide, rape and so
forth while ascribing nefarious motives to people whose intuition
leads them to honest, legitimate doubts about a theory that
conveniently conforms to left-wing ideology says more about the
warmists than about the messengers they seek to slay.
Warmists recently introduced Ku Klux Klan deniers. Philosophy
professor Mark Davidson of the University of Amsterdam likened the
deniers' positions to arguments supporting slavery before the Civil
War; thus, deniers are racists. Two centuries hence, he said, their
comments will seem as absurd as those of Southern slave owners. If so,
would they seem more or less absurd than the scientific consensus of
the 1970s about global cooling?
Newer still are Lyndon Johnson deniers, who question the value of a
movement that has an "urgency — and a sense of irreverence —
reminiscent of the anti-war movement of the 1960s." On Jan. 31, Focus
the Nation, which seeks to bring at least 1 million high school and
college students "into a nonpartisan discussion on global warming"
(emphasis ours), will culminate with "teach-ins" at more than 1,000
schools, including at least 40 in Connecticut. Deniers are not
invited. But wasn't the anti-war movement about young people
questioning authority? These "propaganda-ins" will be about
brainwashing, about young people blindly believing people older than
30 and unconditionally trusting the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. Timothy Leary would be proud.
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If you disagree with the theories and dogmas of Marxism or Scientific Socialism
then you are a tool of Capitalist interests. If you disagree with the theories
or dogmas of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming then you are a tool of
Capitalistic interests. Notice a pattern here? -- Captain Compassion
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
"...the whole world, including the United States, including all that
we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark
Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights
of perverted science." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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