Anyhow, there are some other excellent writers out there. In particular, I recommend this defense of the rational scientific public discourse:
Joe Bast’s Response to Scholars Feeling Pressure After Attacks on Heartland.
Joe Bast responds to critics after the - as I see it - rather innocent billboard campaign showing that some leading murderous psychopats are also leading global warming alarmists. Some choice quotes:
Almost alone among think tanks, we focus on communicating with people who do not already agree with us. We rely on research and reason, not rhetoric and emotion, and still do....
Finally, regarding the billboard, after 15 years of being the target of vicious ad hominem attacks, we decided to punch back instead of stand back. Our billboard was factual: The Unabomber was motivated by concern over man-made global warming to do the terrible crimes he committed. He still believes in global warming. We simply put his picture on a billboard, pointed out the “inconvenient truth,” and asked, “do you?”...
The mainstream media, which has tolerated and even promoted people who call global warming skeptics “Nazis” and “traitors’ and called for the death penalty for skeptics, now pretends to be “outraged” by this billboard. We took it down immediately and admitted that it was in poor taste and a mistake, but they continue to promote madmen on the other side of the issue including Michael Mann and Bill McKibben, and hypocritically pound on us for our “ethical lapse.” This is fake indignation, being staged by ideological extremists as part of the ongoing attack on us and our donors. It is not sincere, it is not accurate, and it is not ethical.I also recommend the National Anxiety Center blog by Alan Caruba, who by the way is one of Heartland's experts. Alan has some great pieces.
Climate Nazis
What is it with the “warmists”, Al Gore and his clones who keep insisting the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us, and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the planet....
Antihumanism has been around a long time. As Dr. Zubin points out, it has taken the form of “Darwinism, eugenics, German militarism, Nazism, xenophobia, the population control movement, environmentalism, technophobia, and most recently, the incredibly demented climatophobic movement, which seeks to justify mass human sacrifice for the purpose of weather control.” Al Gore, James Hansen, and even President Obama’s science advisor, John Holden, are card-carrying members of this cult. In 1971 Holden co-authored “Global Ecology” with Paul Ehrlich, famed for his 1968 book, “The Population Bomb.” They wrote “when a population of organisms grows in a finite environment, sooner or later, it will encounter a resource limit. This phenomenon, described by ecologists as reaching the ‘carrying capacity’ of the environment, applies to bacteria on a culture dish, to fruit flies in a jar of agar, and to buffalo on a prairie. It must also apply to man on this finite planet.” So you need to understand that you are no better than a fruit fly and you need to die in order to avoid depleting the planet’s supply of food and its energy resources. God knows I would like to ignore or—better still—never have to hear from these climate Nazis, but that is not going to happen so long as The New York Times, the United Nations, and a host of others keep repeating their lethal lies.Playing God with "Endangered Species"
The answer is that the ESA was never about endangered species. It is a blunt instrument of environmental groups and those within the federal government to delay development anywhere in the nation. Almost 1,400 species on the government’s list are listed as “threatened” and none of them can be expected to avoid extinction, a natural process that cannot be impeded by human intervention....
The only species that is endangered is the human species as environmental organizations continue to deny access and use of American land needed for growing crops, raising livestock, mining and drilling for energy resources, and building any new improvements including hospitals and other properties that would contribute to the welfare of the human inhabitants of planet Earth. Not only is the ESA a huge bureaucratic failure, it is testimony to the arrogance and evil intent of the environmental movement to harm any form of economic activity and growth in America. It is their way of playing God despite millions of years in which the extinction of species has been part of life on the planet. If dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, the ESA would declare them threatened and endangered.
Welcome back, Bart.
ReplyDeleteI find there's nothing as satisfying as a good insult. Giving one gets a load off my mind and de-stresses me as much as a thimble-full (6 to 10 oz.) of fine Scotch Whisky. Getting one justifies my point of view in any disagreement, argument, screaming match or red-hot machete brawl. However, in an effort to be reasonable, I limit my insults to a reasonable number and deliver them in a non-emotional, technical fashion, even if the freedom-hating projectile-vomiting eco-swine makes my blood boil just thinking of them.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the revolting alarmist zombies are too clever to deliver their insults directly, so they will use weasel-words and raccoon-words to disguise their bitter self-loathing, e.g. when they say "The glaciers are receding" they mean "Rot in hell, filthy fascist maggot". "The last decade is the hottest on record" means "Hitler would be disgusted by your hideous depravity". You get the picture. Everything they say is an insult, even "Close the window, please. There's a draft in here." Their existence is an insult to the concept of human economic progress.
There are two most fundamental freedoms. For us there is the Freedom To Tell Other People What To Do. For them, it is the Freedom To Shut Up And Do As You're Told. I'm sure these words were engraved on the backs of the tablets containing the Ten Commandments. Moses got distracted by whatever before was able to proclaim them.
Typical false equivalence argument from the alarmists. All this fuss over the (true) unabomber ads, which we should not forget was only the first in a thoughful and thought provoking series from Heartland until the phone call from Algore threatening God knows what.
ReplyDeleteSo Kaczynski killed a few people, sad but fact. The 10/10 campaign would still be slaughtering thousands every month if we hadn't put a stop to it, but you don't hear so much about that from the alarmists now. No sireee.