Read of the Day

Orson Scott Card really gives it to the AGW crowd. Money quote:

The Global Warming alarmists are the anti-science religion that is trying to forcibly indoctrinate and convert everyone while suppressing dissent. And the news media are their patsies, their stooges, their puppets.

The more you research AGW, the more you realize that the AGW shills act exactly like a religious cult. They use guilt to try to get you do follow their orders. They threaten some kind of apocalypse if you don’t. The way they respond with mantras like “overwhelming consensus” and “only real scientists believe”, as if it’s some kind of magic spell that’s supposed to block any criticism, is really sad. I’ve had conversations with many otherwise intelligent people who buy into this stuff. I think a lot of them believe it because they think its the right thing to do, not because they are really convinced.

It’s like the ‘60s when most people smoked because it was perceived as a way to gain acceptance with others. Many people jump on the AGW bandwagon so they will not be ostracized. Most people are desperate to fit in.

Fortunately, some of us don’t give a damn about that and aren’t afraid to point out the Emperor’s Sartorial Splendor is lacking.

AGW is the establishment line. The skeptics are anti-establishment. The AGW crowd likes to claim they’re liberals. But they take an authoritarian stance.

I guess that makes us skeptics the true liberals because we’re questioning authority. And we’re the true radicals because we’re going against the orthodoxy.

And let’s face it, when you drill down into this ideology you find what it’s really about. It’s all about diminishing Capitalism and advancing Socialism. They want to empower the state but weaken corporations. They rail against growth. They demonize companies. They talk about how people should get used to less and making sacrifices. It sounds like something out of the Karl Marx play book. So it should come as no surprise that the biggest proponents of this nonsense are lefties. 

They failed to sell the rich nations on Socialism. And Socialism was a dismal failure for any country that seriously adopted it. So, how else do you get people to buy into a failed idea? How about fraud? How about tricking people using an elaborate scam where you scare them with claims of calamity, knowing full well that nature will regularly provide disasters that you can claim were the result of your scam. Then you get some “cool people” to spread the word. You get some scientists to say it’s all true and you get a socialist-loving bureaucracy like the UN to endorse it all.

There you go.

This is also a good read.

1. Ah, I see. Your problem is not the science, it’s the theology. Methinks that were us AGW is Happening types to provide common sense recommendations for adapting to the changes instead of all that folderol about sacrificing and penance, you wouldn’t be so het up about it.

   I agree with you, certain parties have taken the matter to extremes in one direction, prompting an equally extreme reaction in the other direction. By behaving as they did they have closed off alternate avenues and made it that much harder to address the problem in any substantial way. Thus is good science negated by bad ideology.

   Posted by Alan Kellogg  on  11/20  at  03:58 AM

2. Well, that’s certainly part of it. I do think the science isn’t there, either. Did you read the Card article? There’s a lot of fraud on the AGW side. Many of the scientists on that side have resorted to cooking the books to get the results they need to sell their idea.

   Posted by  on  11/20  at  08:13 AM

3. Did you see the latest UN fraud regarding HIV, Hud? They used bad data, and overestimated the occurrence by 40%. And this same organization is pushing AGW! They use similar methods to push both AIDS and AGW (which you point out in your post today (Nov 20, 2007) about trolls.

   Posted by  on  11/20  at  11:51 AM

4. The UN has its stated goals and unstated goals. It’s unstated goals are its real goals. Namely, guilting rich nations into giving more money and power to the UN. Doing whatever ittakes to achieve that goal.

   They engage in fraud and deceit all the time. While the lefties call for Bush’s impeachment for “lying about Iraq”, they don’t even shrug when key UN people were working with Saddam to steal aid money from the poor.

   Posted by  on  11/20  at  12:26 PM
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