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"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
“Global warming deniers” piece: Not Newsweek’s finest hour (MORE: GLOBAL WARMING “BONDS”)
Noel Sheppard writes a must-read smack down of a piece Newsweek did this weekend on the “well-funded machine” of “global warming deniers.” Sheppard writes:
Manmade global warming alarmism took a disgraceful turn for the worse this weekend when Newsweek published a lengthy cover-story repeatedly calling skeptics “deniers” that are funded by oil companies and other industries with a vested interest in obfuscating the truth.
In fact, the piece several times suggested that publishing articles skeptical of man’s role in climate change is akin to misleading Americans about the dangers of smoking.
Despicably titled “Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine,” the article painted a picture of an evil cabal whose goal is to thwart science at the detriment of the environment and the benefit of their wallets.
Worse still, the piece’s many authors painted every skeptical scientific report they referred to as being part of this cabal while including absolutely no historical temperature data to prove that today’s global temperatures are in any way abnormal.
Maybe most disingenuous, there wasn’t one word given to how much money corporations and entities with a vested interest in advancing the alarmism are spending, or who they are. Yet, in the very first paragraph, one of the main participants in this evil cabal was identified (emphasis added throughout):
Read the whole thing.
I’m not sure which is worse: Newsweek referring to those who disagree with gw alarmists as ‘deniers’ (a la Holocaust deniers) or the fact that Newsweek all but ignored the money being made out of unnecessarily scaring the hell out of people who’ve been told we must do something “NOW!!” in order to save this planet.
Update I: Here’s a related Newsbusters piece: Renowned Economics Writer Slams UN’s IPCC As Deserving of Disdain.
Update II: Global warming strategy debated:
Montgomery County officials are looking into whether a bond can be issued to pay for greenhouse gas reduction projects as part of a larger strategy to fight global warming.
Although local governments regularly float bonds to pay for large long-term projects, it’s not clear if cutting global climate change fits into a pre-existing category.
“The county can only do what the Legislature said it can do in writing. … We just can’t willy-nilly do whatever we want” Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairman Tom Ellis said at Thursday’s meeting.
Without a national strategy to cut greenhouses gases, state, county and local governments are going ahead with their own plans to curb climate change. Many have urged their citizens to do likewise.
Philadelphia has already adopted a greenhouse gas reduction plan, and Bucks and Delaware counties are both looking into doing so, said Steve Nelson, the county’s deputy chief operating officer.
Global warming falls within the county’s general purview of health, safety and general welfare because the potential effects include increased rainfall and flooding, as well as extremely hot days, Nelson said.
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The Denial Machine reaches all the way into Germany..
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Heh.
That is as a dishonest, biased hit piece as any I’ve ever seen. Newsweek is not fit to line a bird cage. But then, they are the same mag that brought you the fake Koran in the toilet at Gitmo article that resulted in riots and fatalities worldwide, so they didn’t have far to sink.
I notice they mention the Competitive Enterprise Institutes’s offer of $10,000 to scientists to review the latest twaddle from the IPCC, and get it wrong as usual. The CEI did not offer it to people to write against the IPCC summary, they offered it to knowledgeable scientists to evaluate the report, chips fall where they may, in favor or against. But what are facts when you have an agenda to sell, after all, Mann, father of the fraudulent “hockey stick” himself said every scientist has to make a decision as to whether to be honest or effective. Also notice they fail to mention the hack James Hansen’s $250,000 “grant” from the Heinz Foundation to support his global warming idiocy, so if the CEI is corrupt, doesn’t that make Hansen and the pro AGW crowd at least 25 times as corrupt?
When the only thing you can find to say against the “skeptics” is to attack their character, lie about their motivations, and attempt to smear them, and say nothing about the science, you show that they are far more credible than Newsweek lets on. If they were that wrong, their science would be easy to attack, the skeptics have no problem finding very specific and notable things in the AGW science to find significant fault with. Which in itself is very telling about which side you should believe.
Increasingly, the subject of global warming has become a litmus test as to whether or not a person should be viewed as an intelligent, rational person or an ideologically blinded fool who’s opinion on everything should be suspect. If you take a person and show them the “skeptics” side, including references, arguments, and what’s wrong with the “consensus” how do they react? If they see the merit in the skeptics side, or even if they are not sure but admit it is not as settled as Al Bore says, they may be worth debating with or discussing other subjects with. If they slam back with the usual “it’s settled” “Big Oil paid for you” and other BS, ad hominem attacks, then they are truly an idiot and their opinions about every thing else are so suspect as to be worthless, as they have shown themselves to be credulous, gullible fools with not enough judgment or skepticism to keep themselves from being led around like sheep.
Sev says:
Increasingly, the subject of global warming has become a litmus test as to whether or not a person should be viewed as an intelligent, rational person or an ideologically blinded fool
That’s true – but it’s more than that. It’s also a litmus test for funding. You want that grant from a left-wing foundation? You’d better come up with data that supports AGW. The 250K grant from the Heinz Foundation is only the tip of the iceberg. And this iceberg is not melting – it’s getting bigger.
Any scientist worthy of the name will counter criticism by recounting data, observations, detailed experimental procedures, and statistical analysis to back up his or her conclusions. The fact that the AGW alarmists do none of this reflects poorly on their methodology and research.
Finally, consider this: Albert Einstein might have been the greatest scientific mind of the last century. His findings about relativity are, to this day, considered a theory – not established fact. Al Gore is a political hack who got a D in natural sciences in college . But his ideas about global warming are considered to be established fact, not theory, by the AGW acolytes.
When you give the Goracle more credence than you’re willing to give Einstein, you’ve forfeited any scientific credibility.
The lack of evidence that GW is caused by humans is substantial, psycho, and nothing frauds on the left can make up will change that.
Just came over from a TalkLeft site that claims that Gore won in 2000 & we are all experiencing an illusion since then. Mass Psychosis on the left just keeps on & the MSM has a hard time keeping up with the delusions & hallucinations over there in the fever swamps.
The NYT took a poll last week and when it came out “counterintuitive” the commissars decided to take another poll, which repeated the first. The stymied Politburo at the NYT decided that they would actually publish the results of the second poll. Fancy that!
You are a total package of delirious nonsense about AGW, and no number of so-called “scientists” fighting for big money from totalitarian-wannabes will change the science.
Read Richard Feynman in “Cargo Cult Science” to see a Nobel laureate who foresaw frauds and imposters like the AGW Newsweak mafia.
Interesting; I live in that Montgomery County referred to in Update II…
Another irony in this hit piece: this is the same Newsweek that famously moaned about impending global cooling some 32 years ago.
And as recently as last October, they published an article about how uncertain the science surrounding global warming is: Remember Global Cooling? Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict.
So I guess we’re supposed to conclude that the evil oil companies paid off that reporter last year, right?
Richard Feynman is one of my true heroes. A smarter, more anti-BS man you’re unlikely to find, and we miss his input and antics at times like this.
Why, GWR, don’t you know the drill? Sure, we were wrong about Global Cooling, but that doesn’t matter, there are more people now supporting Global Warming, so it has to be right! What that means is that unlike the 70’s when Global Cooling was all the rage, now the nutcases and sycophants have figured out how to use Global Warming to get funding from the governments and NGOs of the world, and that climate change can be used to invoke “social justice” changes to punish the rich and successful of the world.
When CO2 driven global warming was just proposed as an hypothesis, it wasn’t a bad hypothesis, temps and CO2 were rising, and initial data from ice cores showed similar behavior in the distant past. Unfortunately, it got picked up by political and social engineering types as a convenient tool to get what they wanted, so when further science, more accurate science, pointed out the flaws in CO2 driven global warming it was too late, the system would not accept any contrary information as it was no longer science. Higher resolution of the ice cores showed that CO2 lagged temperature, but that’s an inconvenient truth to the AGW moguls. As are all the other issues which show CO2 to have a minimal effect on temperature.
Gallileo would be very familiar with this type of “science.” He almost got burned at the stake for challenging it.
Gallileo would be very familiar with this type of “science.” He almost got burned at the stake for challenging it.
Well, of course, Sev. Galileo and Copernicus were deniers, despite all the scientific “evidence” of a geocentric universe. By the way, from all I’ve read, they peer-reviewed the hell out of that “evidence” too.
I’d love to find out the name of the doctor who did the autopsy on the Earth and declared her demise due to global warming. Maybe we can put a sticker on every item that has anything remotely to do with petroleum products so that people know that they’re killing the Earth by buying evil things like gasoline and plastic lunchboxes?
Ah, it’s too close to the truth for comfort. It will end up like smoking, we’re going to get taxed out every possible orifice for the ’scientific consensus’ of Global Warming. Get ready for it.
- The same old Marxist “end justifies the means” creedo redux.
- However I don’t believe Ill-Liberal progressivism is the driving force in GW. They just grab onto it since it can be mined for anti-BushCo. rehtoric. I’d guess that most SecProg yuppies are too busy checking their pulse after a 2K run, or swilling bottles of pierre’ water to give a damn about the issue, beyond having to breathe in toxic fumes or the effects of high traffic volume on their property values. Most of the local squirmishes in terms of societal issues that they activate against generally lead enexorably back to great efforts to increase the resale value of their condo’s and town houses.
- The money trail tends to support the idea that the whole panalope of dead baby alarmism, similar to the techniques once used to sell car seats, is a sort of rising anti-establishment, establishment.
- To wit. Out here in California a huge cottage, and not so cottage, industry has sprung up over the past 25 years in the area of alternate energy. Solar panel based electrical, rock bed storage systems, back up power grids for blocks of business properties, ect. In the main, other than a certain freedom from the normal state and local provided services, most of these systems are a push when it comes to real economies, and even at that can take years of use before benefits are actually realized. Overall they have very little effect on the larger part of the power grid, since all of the same costs are pepetually incurred anyway. Sort of an all or nothing problem. But the companies that are in the field benefit greatly.
- As usual for its part, the Governments input to all of this is spotty at best. But for those whos basic ideology lays in the idea that government is a viable concept in the area of social engineering, none of the vast pile of disasters or factually proven record of ineptitudes will disway their exuberance. Apparently, once you embrace nannystatism, you are forever doomed to looking for a free lunch.
- For anyone that may be still laboring under this perniscious delusion, consider the following.
- All that money, all those experts and politicians, all this time, and still the bridges fall down. This in spite of the fact that nothng about bridges is functionally problematic. Bridges, all structures for that natter, are right there for their examination, right down to the atomic level if need be. There is no magic envolved, nor are crystal balls neccessary. Its all very cut and dry, and absolutely controllable. and yet they fall down. There is no fathomable reason, save Governmental screw ups, economical shortcuts, and indifference.
- This is why the whole SecProg trope is fatally flawed. More Governement involvement? Maybe if you have a societal death wish, otherwise I don’t think so.
- Big Bang Hunter
Big Bang Hunter:
I am on temporary hiatus myself, but I am glad to see you back!
See ST – I told you I would check in when I could!
Yay! Good to see ya, MD!
Hi BBH! I moved your comment to the thread I started on this last night. –ST
Welcome back BBH! Great post and even greater to hear from you again!!!
Will Aaron Eckhart play Noel Shepherd in the movie version of this Global Warming drama??