When I first saw this I thought to myself “maybe posting this isn’t appropriate on Veterans Day”. Then, after additional reflection, I realized this is exactly what our American veterans and the allies fought for: freedom of speech and freedom from tyranny. The seeds of tyranny appear to be taking hold again in the German government at least when it comes to climate change issues. – Anthony
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From Pierre Gosselins “No Tricks Zone”, apparently they really don’t like Fred Singer in Germany.
Branding of Dissenters Has Begun – Clearing The Path To A Climate Science Pogrom
What is it with these intolerant zealots who refuse to learn anything from history?
Right smack on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, German Parliamentarians, in a frontal assault, are now openly calling out and branding scientists for the crime of scientific dissent. These out-of-control Parliamentarians are demanding that the German government take a position against dissenting views in climate science.
What follows makes McCarthyism look like a treasure hunt. What a number of zealous German Parliamentarians are calling for borders on a call to launch a science pogrom.
The climate dogmatists are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the growing scepticism and dissent now spreading in Germany and Europe, and want to stamp it out – and now.
Journalist Dirk Maxeiner here brings our attention to this latest development on the exploding intolerance that has gripped certain factions in Germany. The branding of climate science dissenters has begun. Fred Singer and EIKE (European Institute For Climate and Energy) are the first to feel the sting of the denier-branding-iron. Read background here.
Some may think that I’m being over-dramatic here. I am not. The situation that the few, yet very vocal, sceptics face here is precarious. Just read the following query written by a faction of Parliamentarians to the German Government, translated from the German text at Dirk Maxeiner’s site (emphasis added, and note the use of the term “denier” throughout the text)):
Read the full post here: Branding of Dissenters Has Begun – Clearing The Path To A Climate Science Pogrom
Luboš Motl has an opinion also, here
What to use for a symbol? A patch with a polar bear with a Circle and slash over the Bear’s face to be worn on the shirt sleeve? “Deniers Raus! ” underneath?
Probably just a green typo…swap ‘alarmist’ with ‘denier/sceptic’ and it all makes sense.
;-J
Old ways die hard.
Well at least this time we can be sure that any future solar-powered panzers or tigers wont work at night very well.
I think the heavy handed thuggish approach will backfire on them.
A more constructive approach would be to invite the skeptics to the party.
For example: Temperature data is just data, and humans have methods for handling and quality controlling large masses of data. You don’t need to be a climatologist to read a thermometer. After that it is just data.
Non climate scientist with no bias could audit the data and come up with reasonable procedures to obtain the true temperature before they apply them. They could then apply them to the existing data and see what the temperature really was.
Allowing Dr Hansen and his minions to adjust the data [unobserved ans unaudited] and hoping they are doing it fairly is mentally challenged. His 1988 model is in trouble and needs all the help it can get. Is he a big enough man to resist putting his thumb on the scale ?
A modest proposal for BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN – perhaps all ‘deniers’ should be made to wear a symbol of some type. Perhaps a star?
<blockquote.1. Is the German Government aware of a scientifically published paper that has been subjected to peer review that questions climate change caused by man, and that is supported by scientific data?
It never ceases to amaze me how this myth has been spread,
800 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming (AGW) Alarm
It never ceases to amaze me how this myth has been spread,
800 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming (AGW) Alarm
I wonder what Angela Merkel, with a PhD in physics, would make of the creative details of principle component analysis as practiced by Mann et al!
These CAGW proponents need to be careful – if they cause Angela to look into the details – they will be absolutely sunk.
I hope that the Hockey Stick Illusion is on Angela’s Christmas list.
To many, it may seem that Germany has long since rid itself of the psyche of “Crystal Night” of ’38, yet my father will never forget or forgive Germany for thos events. He has always maintained “give them enough time and events will repeat themselves”.
On the other hand, I like to think I received a more relaxed upbringing and education that was tolerant of post-war Germany, and indeed I have many German friends – all of whom would be regarded as “skeptics” (I’ve been bending their ears quite well)
So just what is it in German politics that brings these elements to the fore?
Andy
The AGW hoax is a crimianal mobster enterprise. It is a fanatical power grab.
The perpetrators of this hoax in the German Parliament need to be tried and imprisoned for this con.
Here in Canada, it’s Remembrance Day. Readers might also be interested Donna Laframboise’s view, which highlights the complicity of many journalists who, in effect, have promoted the appalling intolerance (as noted in Pierre’s article) that appears to be resurfacing in Germany.
Lest We Forget the Importance of Liberty
Politicians are not immune to the Green wrath.
http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/20/german-parliamentarian-under-massive-fire-for-skepticism/
Has the German gov’t picked out a symbol that AGW skeptics will have to display on their clothing in public yet?
Dr. Singer’s scientific credentials are impeccable,
S. Fred Singer, BEE, Ohio State University (1943), A.M. Physics, Princeton University (1944), Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University (1948), Research Physicist, Upper Atmosphere Rocket Program, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University (1946-1950), Scientific Liaison Officer, U.S. Office of Naval Research (1950-1953), White House Commendation for Early Design of Space Satellites (1954), Director, Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and Professor of Physics, University of Maryland (1953-1962), Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech (1961-1962), First Director, National Weather Satellite Center (1962-1964), First Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964-1967), Deputy Assistant Secretary (Water Quality and Research), U.S. Department of the Interior (1967-1970), Deputy Assistant Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-1971), Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution (1971), Professor of Environmental Science, University of Virginia (1971-1994), U.S. National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scholar, Soviet Academy of Sciences Institute for Physics of the Earth (1972), Member, Governor of Virginia Task Force on Transportation (1975), First Sid Richardson Professor, Lyndon Baines Johnson School for Public Affairs, University of Texas (1978), Vice Chairman and Member, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres (1981-1986), Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation (1982-1983), Member, U.S. Department of State Science Advisory Board (Oceans, Environment, Science) (1982-1987), Member, Acid Rain Panel, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1982-1987), Member, NASA Space Applications Advisory Committee (1983-1985), Member, U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel (1984), Visiting Eminent Scholar, George Mason University (1984-1987), Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987-1989), Member, White House Panel on U.S.-Brazil Science and Technology Exchange (1987), Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Space Science and Technology (1989-1994), Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institute (1991), Guest Scholar, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute (1991), Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1992-1993), Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University (1994-2000), Commendation for Research on Particle Clouds, NASA (1997), Research Fellow, Independent Institute (1997), Director and President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project (1989-Present)
Poptech says:
November 11, 2010 at 9:09 am
Dr. Singer’s scientific credentials are impeccable
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So what ? Does that make him right ?
He is an ideologue
There are five attributes of ideologues:
1. Absence of doubt
2. Intolerance of debate
3. Appeal to authority
4. A desire to convince others of the ideological “truth”
5. A willingness to punish those that don’t concur
Note that each of these characteristics is anathema to science.
Expecting good science from ideologues is a futile.
How quickly people forget their recent past. It is only 65 years ago that Nazism and WWII ended. The Berlin wall fell 21 years ago and Germany was reunited as a single democratic state. Now this. Suppression of dissent is not democracy. It is totalitarianism.
I feel sad for the world.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. We are witnessing the last stages of the death of AGW.
Die Ökofascisten are getting desperate.
Don’t worry, this is just like the Battle of the Bulge, cruel but irrelevant for the outcome in the end. By May next year, they will surrender.
Is this significantly different then what we have heard and will continue to hear from any extreme on any subject. Remember the tradition of intolerance for difference runs deep, very deep in the culture of all European societies. We in the US and Canada need to remind ourselves that our culture and society is of European roots.
Zero chance I’ll be buying that BMW motorcycle, now.
AndiC @ur momisugly 8:55.
The characteristics you fear are not unique to Germans, but are to humans.
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ZT says:
November 11, 2010 at 8:54 am
I wonder what Angela Merkel, with a PhD in physics, would make of the creative details of principle component analysis as practiced by Mann et al!
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She was the first one I heard to pronounce that they, our God-like leaders, would restrict the global temperature rise to 2 degrees, as if they have some great big “climatometer” with a big dial on the front (in addition to being in control of the Chinese and Indian emissions). I’m not sure that the Ph.D. in Physics is helping much.
Also, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_said_Those_who_ignore_history_are_bound_to_repeat_it
These people would be well served by reading the Wikipedia entry for Joseph Goebbels. Warning: I found it to be a stomach-churning read at the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
If it is science, they will need to spread the agenda using science. If it is a militant bully enterprise, that is how they will further the alarmist cause.