Dickens Goes Metro writes in comments for our other redonkulous climate ethics story today Penn State to lecture on “climate ethics” what I thought at first was a spoof. Sadly, it is all too real.
Coffee spew alert:
National Climate Ethics Statement
To Be Released November 30 On Capital Hill
Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Henry Waxman Among List of Speakers
This is our FINAL CALL for signatures. Please send out the message below.
The National Climate Ethics Campaign is pleased to announce that the “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change” will be released Wednesday, November 30 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. in Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building (The Environment and Public Works Hearing Room).
There are now over 1000 signers now on the climate ethics statement. Please send the message pasted below to organizations, listservs, and people that might endorse it.
If you are in Washington D.C. or vicinity please attend the event. In addition, please urge others know you to attend! Let’s fill the room to tell Congress, the President, and the public that it is our nation’s moral and ethical responsibility to meaningfully address climate change.
Speakers representing a wide range of constituencies will offer their views about our nation’s ethical and moral obligations to address climate change:
Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California)
Virginia State Senator Mary Margaret Whipple (state perspective)
Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm (business)
Tim Warman of The National Wildlife Federation (environment)
Jim Ball, VP of The Evangelical Environmental Network (faith)
Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability (labor)
Ann Goodman, WNSF (women)
Luisa Saffiotti, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (mental health)
Bobby Pestronk, NACCHO (health)
Lili Molina, Energy Action Coalition (youth)
A speaker representing the NAACP will also speak.
http://climateethicscampaign.org/
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Only 1000 people so far representing the climate ethics of the nation? Gosh.
You can see the statement and list of signers here
You can add your name to the list of signers here
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Oh what tangled social networks we weave when first we practice to deceive….
As you can see from the list, it’s all about the science.
Hopefully everyone remembers to call ol’ Babs by her proper title:
Interesting – maybe only 999 signers:
James Hansen, Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY
James Hansen, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Earth Institute, Kintnersville, PA
“We, the undersigned current and former elected officials and representatives from the business, labor, youth, financial, academic, mental health, physical health, conservation, racial justice, civil rights, development organizations, and faith communities of the United States, recognize that climate change is a real, dangerous, and rapidly worsening problem with deep moral implications.…
You really don’t need to read any more of this. Sigh.
“deep moral implications”
The evidence is unequivocal … AGW is a religion.
Ockham says:
November 29, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Correction: It’s a Cult. The Cult of Marxism
Peter D. Tillman says:
November 29, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Easy to slap that garbage down Peter! Simply show the link below
http://www.petitionproject.org/qualifications_of_signers.php
None seem to have anything to do with…..
D-California ?
State Perspective (?)
Business (Carbon Trading?)
Faith (!) Should that be “The Cause”?
Labor Network for Sustainability
WNSF (women) (?)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility (mental health)
NACCHO (health)
Energy Action Coalition (youth)
More political baffle-gab. This sounds like an assignment in a PR 101 course at Nonacademic U. Most of these people wouldn’t recognize ethics if it bit them in the ass. To bad Ethics is not a large dog with bit teeth. These people have the moral authority of drug dealer. The last time I looked climate, rivers, rocks and just about everything else in the natural world has amoral, apolitical and therefore unable to be ethical or unethical. It is only people acting from on an apriori assumption that would attempt to define for others what ethics is to mean.
And in Australia today, we have this utter garbage to contend with. Where are their ethics?
http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/111129_FINAL-FOR-WEB.pdf
Shameful, really shameful.
“To(o) bad Ethics is not a large dog with bit teeth.”
That large dog would be karma. These turkeys will eventually get bitten.
I see a few reps from this organization, including “Edwina Beard, President, New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light, Albuquerque, NM.” That name kind of says it all.
The enviros very deliberately targeted religious groups back around 1990, and probably earlier, as they knew they could get such groups by just fooling their leaders. Or, to use more Biblical terms, fool the shepherd and get the sheep. It was bound to come to this and i expect more of this desperate moral argument as the pseudoscientific part of the “cause” falls apart.
Meanwhile, at the Durban Revival Meeting – HalloCO2yah Brother! – it looks like what must be immoral infidels are spoiling the party, and the collection plates aren’t filling as planned.
Here’s a link to what’s happening there which i find interesting. They are biased but since their real focus is the real focus ($), it provides some insight:
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/special/2127808/durban-climate-summit
This statement has nothing to do with ethics. In fact, it is basically the opposite. It basically says “I promise to support the AGW hysteria no matter what”.
I wish these petitions had a mechanism for a person to sign as being opposed to it.
Also, you really need to watch out for what comes out of Congress. They generally give things names that do exactly the opposite of what the name says. For example, if Congress were to ever propose a “Paycheck Protection Act”, look out! It would probably mandate that they take 90% of your paycheck and “ensure” that you get to keep the remaining 10%.
I certainly hope no taxpayer money is being wasted on that petition.
A speaker representing the NAACP?
Oh yeah, the old New York Times headline joke:
World Ending Tomorrow! Women and Minorities Hit Hardest!
Justice and EQUITY? They want us to take out a second mortgage? Report the thick insulation in the attic??
“One of humanity’s most deeply held universal moral and ethical precepts is to ‘do no harm.’ This axiom says that any activity that unjustifiably causes human suffering and death is morally wrong.”
So it is apparently wrong to divert land for biofuels and make food more expensive for poor people. And it is wrong to make energy more expensive so poor people have to choose between eating and keeping warm. I agree this is wrong. So what is their solution?
1346 as of 01:00 MST.
On Capital Hill? Wonder where that is….EVERYONE knows that Capitol (with an “o”) Hill is where our dear leaders are located!
Along with “ethics”, the folks at Climate Ethics Campaign should look into the availability of remedial spelling classes.
WE the climate-realists
recognize that climate change ALARMISM
is a real, dangerous, and rapidly worsening problem with deep moral implications.…
biofueled famines, death by fuel poverty,
job-killing taxes, legislation and regulation,
wasted wealth that could have helped the world’s poor.
Speaking of faux morality,
PETA has been whining for decades
about the half million animals annually killed by cars,
so why isn’t PETA patrolling
the grounds around the bird slicers
in order to document an equally vast avian slaughter?
Is this particular animal-killing too PC for them?
They don’t mind fining oil companies
ridiculouly huge sums for a single dead bird.
I see that honesty wasn’t one of the ethics they had in mind.
Patrick Davis says:
November 29, 2011 at 11:11 pm
And in Australia today, we have this utter garbage to contend with. Where are their ethics?
http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/111129_FINAL-FOR-WEB.pdf
Shameful, really shameful.
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Page 8 is my favorite, although they forgot rising sea levels. Personally I’d save a copy and post it back to them in ten years.
Ethics after the fact is nothing ,nil, nada, zip.
We don’t need your ethics now, we needed your ethics years ago.
Here is an example of Boxer’s ethics. After Roy Spencer’s testimony before a Senate Climate Change committee, she commented: “And lastly, I guess is a certain congratulations, Rush Limbaugh referred to you as the official climatologist of the Rush Limbaugh Excellence in Broadcasting Network.”
These nuts do like their ad homs.
Robert E. Phelan says:
November 29, 2011 at 10:36 pm
The list I just pulled up looks to have 4 dupes in 1,219 names: Adrien Tofighi, Curt Meine, James Hansen and Stephen Soldz.
Nothing major but shows a little lax on the quality control.
Oh and Bren Smith/Brendan Smith makes 5.
These lists don’t seem to have any value, both sides can and have come up with numbers and it doesn’t prove much.
I wouldn’t have believed forty years ago that in my lifetime the weather could become a political let alone a moral matter.
Apparently the only speaker from business they can find is an “organic” yogurt maker.
Politics and ethics … never the twain shall meet.