It’s snowing in Alberta in May. Which, of course, proves global warming is happening. Photo: Larry Wong/Canwest News Service
According to the Ottawa Citizen, more than 250 “prominent scientists”, including 11 Nobel laureates, are calling on people to cease personal political attacks and focus on the facts. For a moment, I welcomed the idea of ending the “politicizing” of climate change, and the personal attacks that come with not accepting the gospel of anthropogenic climate change.
And then I realized they didn’t mean an end to all political attacks. Just the ones directed at them.
So the 250 prominent scientists have turned around and called those who disagree with them “deniers”, a loaded term that is associative with those who disbelieve in the historical evidence of a holocaust against the Jews. Delightful company to be in, I’m sure.
“Recent assaults on climate science and, more disturbingly, on climate scientists by climate change deniers are typically by special interests or dogma, not by an honest effort to provide an alternative theory that credibly satisfies the evidence,” the scientists say in an open letter published the journal Science.
Special interests? What special interests? Who and what are these special interests they’re referring to? Speaking of dogma, using the term “special interests” is like invoking the catch-all bogeyman of rhetorical commentary.
Society, the letter says, has two choices. And only two, apparently. The first is to hide our heads in the sand and ignore that imminent devastation awaits our inaction. The second is to do precisely what they advise us not to do, which is to use guilt trips, distractions, and outright lies in order to encourage political influence to take action.
Two can play at the metaphor game, and if given the choice between the ostrich and chicken little, I’ll take the ostrich every time.
As for the 11 Nobel laureates, well, they’re members of the entire IPCC panel that shared in the 2007 prize with pop culture hero for a day, Al Gore, who has since become a little busy moving into a new mansion. The $8,875,000 gated villa on the beach with 1 1/2 acres, six fireplaces, five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and 6,500 square feet of living space, has come from his considerable income in the climate change Armageddon speaking tour racket, and investment in “green” industries that he has used his political clout to get government to subsidize.
You can’t just break the public trust with a scandal like climategate, and then ask for an end to the “politicization” of science by telling the skeptics to shut up and stop being “deniers”. Where I come from, we call that elitism.
No, when you’ve earned the right to be trusted again, we’ll let you know. You could begin by accepting that there is no so-called consensus on climate change being attributable to mankind, that those who are skeptical of the so-called consensus are not deniers, and that the scientific community needs to work harder to provide evidence that the changes in climate are irrefutably linked to airborne hydrocarbon emissions caused by human beings.
Until that happens, right back at ya, “warmists”.
More to the point, just who ARE these AGW “scientists” who have themselves failed in their application of the scientific method to real-world issues? Maybe their respective universities should consider recalling their credentials.
Yup leave it to the “real scientists” like choo-choo Pachuri the UN-elected U.N. Pooh-bahs if they were righ would not this be a self correcting problem? We all die Gaiia gets back an empty canvas win win win no?
Cheers Bubba
You should know that the Ottawa Citizen is still very much in tune with the climate change ideology. The paper only reluctantly covered the hijacked e-mail story, and the scandal of faked data at the IPCC. Information on these stories came from columnists like David Warren, not the reporting staff. The paper approves of a large scale wind power development in Ottawa, as long, as it is built in the rural area and not on public land in the urban centre.
Your comments are “110%” correct which is only 2 cents worth … or some other scientific anomaly that is settled.
The medieval warming period did not happen because there is a hockey shtick to prove it.
Earn my trust again “scientist” and I will go from skeptical denial to true believer …. But no money … I’ll just continue to recycle my beer cans.
Mr. Gore has bought a new mansion by the beach, get that, BY THE BEACH.
Which can only mean one of two things, either global warming and oceans rising are of no concern to Mr. Gore, or he will collect big time when the oceans rise and he collects a big fat cheque from the insurance company.
i find the ad hominem attacks from both sides distasteful
LOL the gall, it reminds me of Health Canada whom put out warnings over the years allegeding peanut butter caused cancer and then opps a few years later retracted that sound settled “Science”. Then they demonized eggs for causing hardening of the arteries and then a few years later opps retracted their own science and lo and behold eggs are good for you because they contain Omega 3 fatty acid. The self same climate experts can’t get their science straight but we should trust them, um no don’t think so.
In a supposedly ‘free’ country, we should be granted the freedom to believe what we choose and not be smeared with the ‘deniers’ term to make us look like fanatics. I can think of only one fanatical, Koolaid drinking group that needs to wake the hell up. Fuck you Ottawa ‘obedient’ Citizen.
Exactly Dave @ 5:09 we are not telling the “self proclaimed Scientists” “voodoo Priests” “oracle of Delphi” what they should think, do, wear, drive etc. They however seem to think we need their “devine guidance” what a bunch of scraggly bearded, pony tailed wankers, as for “ad Hominem” attacks, well excuse me the self proclaimed “Profits” (spelling deliberate) would be O.K. with everybody but them living in a cave. Just send your money to ….. ME Examples Fat Albert and kooky Davy who seem to want to corner the beach front real estate market, even though “we are all gonna drown”?? Does not that tell you something jeffg?
this guy trillion has made and awesome song about all this global warming debate. everyone should see this!
part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2KknCl8mbw
part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3m9aCKDVjA