Ross McKittrick writes in with this:
A bracing essay at Pointman’s. I particularly like this bit:
The problem the alarmists had, was that there was never anything substantial to hit back at. They had the equivalents of the big guns and the massive air support but there never was a skeptic HQ to be pounded, no big central organization, no massed ranks of skeptic soldiers or even any third-party backing the resistance.
Every one of the skeptics was a lone volunteer guerrilla fighter, who needed absolutely no logistical support of any kind to continue the fight indefinitely. The alarmists never understood this, preferring to think that there simply had to be some massive hidden organization orchestrating the resistance. While they wasted time and effort attacking targets that only existed in their head, each of the guerrillas chewed on them mercilessly in their own particular way.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/the-climate-wars/
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VERY well said as always, Ross. They cannot think in terms other than along ‘consensus’ [forces of light] or conspiracy [forces of darkness].
Worse…convinced to be fighting a conspiracy they justify themselves in conspiring to fight it back. From then on the slippery slope of fakehood and deceit is never far.
We are……the Minutemen.
Who is Pointman? I checked the essay but couldn’t find his name.
Or her name!
Good observations……there is no coordination, everybody chewing like the ants at a
different corner….
and …. more observations:
(1) they march separately on their own, but bite simultaneously…..
(2) to avoid: to bite each other (or: ‘friendly fire’) ,
(3) some are blind, some walk backward …only some….but bite nevertheless…
.and soon they will have chewed CAGW to pieces ….
A few years of continuous cooling also helps…. lets enjoy the feast…
JS
each of the guerrillas chewed on them mercilessly in their own particular way.
And now we can’t get rid of the taste!)
Bingo!
My nickle versus your ten dalla bill.
Ross is right; it is over. Fakegate is a strategic disaster for the Alarmists. The battle analogy works very well. We skeptics never concentrated our forces and our adversaries never could effectively engage us. They wasted all their energy trying to identify a concentration of force that didn’t exist. To press the battle analogy further: Fakegate is an exploding powder magazine within the fortress or below the waterline. It is a self-inflicted disaster caused by the futile search for the enemies’ concentrated force (which doesn’t exist). Look at what they have done to themselves!
An Army of citizen volunteers versus paid conscipts. No contest in terms of motivation.
I love the description of us as guerrilla fighters. As America found out in Vietnam, Iraq, etc., these types of insurgencies are extremely hard to defeat, even with disproportionate advantages in technology and firepower. What the warmists don’t want to admit is that there are thousands of us out here, perhaps millions, who are simply looking for truth. Looking for an honest use of the scientific method. Finding spin, deceptions, censorship instead of truth, these multiple armies of one have become inflamed with indignation and determination. We’ve argued in the comment sections of newspapers, magazines, in blogs, on Facebook, on Tumblr. We’ve started our own blogs, asked rude questions in politicians’ town hall meetings, written to authors, organizations, legislators. And we’re willing to expend our own energies with no other reward than the inner satisfaction of trying to help people discern the propaganda.
Fight on, brothers.
Fourth Generation warfare. Most effective against a schlerotic command structure.
Pointman;
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/
,distributed, guerilla, intelligence,
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Don’t forget green movement is similar. You may point your finger at Greenpeace but close it down and you’re still left with millions of green fanatics ready to tie themselves to trees or railroad tracks.
Think death by a million bites.
Kind of like an elephant getting eaten by a school of small piranha!!
eric anderson says:
March 2, 2012 at 2:33 pm
One Résistance member salutes another. Well said sir.
Eric,
The concept of guerrilla fighters and insurgencies being extremely hard to defeat is pretty much an urban legend. The British showed this to be false in Malaysia in the 50’s. Contrary to popular belief, the US was winning the insurgency war in South Vietnam, even though it was handicapped with a Vietnamese government that lacked the confidence of much of the population. The Viet Minh were losing the fight prior to Tet and Tet effectively destroyed them as an operational force. In the end it was a massive invasion by conventional North Vietnamese forces that defeated the Sagion governement, aided in large part by Congress’ refusal to fund military supplies, mainly ammunition and helicopter parts. Iraq is another poor example of an insurgency winning out against a modern military force. In case you missed it, the insurgents lost and the US has pulled combat forces out.
Afghanistan may be an example where victory against an insurgency could prove true. As one of my nephews commented after his first deployment, it is a very difficult situation over there. In one valley they support and even love what Americans are doing for them. One valley over, they hate your guts and feed that hate to their babies through the breasts of their mothers. The one qualifier I might place on Afghanistan proving to be the exemption is whether or not you can classify it as a true insurgency. Large portions of the population have never really considered themselves to have any alliagence to a national government. Alliagence lies with the family, clan and tribe.
Shrewd and concise.
As I pointed out on this this blog a long time ago we always were a rag, tag and bobtail army.
As against their serried and well paid ranks: I won’t even bother to name them.
If you could even describe us as an army as such: I am not sure we were quite that organised frankly.
However, more or less we have done the job, effectually the war is over and the rest is mopping up. Credit to all.
The first true and major battle and indeed information war fought on the World Wide Web: and a lesson to those who imagine they can control the news and propagate propaganda with their mighty resources. Not any more.
They can try, and will fail.
This a new and open world, it may take a generation yet, which I will not live to see, to confirm that it is. Nothing on this scale has been seen since printing and the rise of literacy. How it will all work out I do not know.
But I think it will be for the better: and do assure you that your grandchildren will take it all in their stride.
Kindest Regards
William Abbott says:
March 2, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Fakegate is an exploding powder magazine within the fortress or below the waterline.
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More like a torpedo that once launched, couldn’t find the target vessel, then looped back and attacked the only vessel it could find. The ship that launched it.
Roy says: March 2, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Think death by a million bites.
Ha! reminds me of T H White Once and Future King.
The storyline is the training of the young Arthur by Merlin. Merlin is particularly good at taking Arthur into situations where they become different animals and have to look at life through different eyes. Anyway, Merlin and Madam Mim engage in duel to the death one day. They start off in good wizard style with shape-changing into different animals, each change intended to outwit the other. Madam Mim starts to get narked with Merlin’s baiting strategy. When he turns into an elephant, she turns herself into an aullay – which sounds like a kind of mastodon. Merlin disappears. Then Mim as mastodon breaks out in spots, mumps, pustules, coughs, fevers, and finally rolls over, defeated. Merlin, who can time travel, has come back from the twentieth century with its knowledge of illnesses as living organisms, which he has impersonated, one after another.
Pointman, is a writer with a gift of perceptive insight some only grasp darkly. I think he is one of the best, he certainly hit the nail on the head in this piece [mind you he always does].
Thanks P, and Mr. Watts, Mr. McKittrick and not forgetting Mr. McIntyre.
Keep vigilant, stay true, comrades in arms and always, always make sure that you; “get your retaliation in FIRST!”
Huzzah!
Kasuha says:
March 2, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Don’t forget green movement is similar. You may point your finger at Greenpeace but close it down and you’re still left with millions of green fanatics ready to tie themselves to trees or railroad tracks.
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To succeed, a guerilla movement needs the support of the local population. That’s why the surge in Iraq worked. Once the locals no longer feared the terrorists, they were willing to work with the Allied forces to point out the terrorists.
ONce the populace no longer believes that these activists are working for the greater good, the populace is no longer willing to put up with the inconveniences and depravations the “activists” cause. At which point it becomes easier and easier for law enforcement to track them down and capture them.
Skeptics have the only organizations that count: Mother Nature, and several centuries of sound scientific methodology to provide them with reliable constraints to discern what they know vs what they think they know about how she works and what she’s up to.
Post-modern science is post-constraint science.