This QOTW is from an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail which focuses on the rise of skeptic blogs including CA and WUWT.
The article contained this nugget from Gavin Schmidt, who never fails to disappoint with his (what McIntyre calls backhanded ) prose:
“He could be a scientific superstar,” Mr. Schmidt says. “He’s a smart person. He could be adding to the sum total of human knowledge, but in effect he adds to the reduction of the sum total of human knowledge.”
You know, sometimes I think Dr. Schmidt’s ego must be so large that the NY Dept of Transportation would have to put out orange traffic cones ahead of him when he travels.
I found this portion of the Globe and Mail article also interesting:
In the wake of the scandal, blogs that question the reality of man-made global warming have surged in public attention, leading new readers to websites such as Wattsupwiththat.com (run by weatherman Anthony Watts) and climatedepot.com (run by conservative activist Marc Morano). The sites’ rising popularity, and the growing influence they appear to wield in shaping public debate, is deeply worrying to the scientific community.
What should be deeply worrying to the scientific community is that they’ve allowed climate science to become noble cause corrupted by monied interests. Some serious retrospection is needed.
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Well to paraphrase another oft made comment on here;
The plural of Lie is not Knowledge.
I think gavin was sorta validating ronald reagan’s statement about so much of what they ‘know’ just being wrong. it must be frustrating for poor gavin to be aware of so much of his knowledge is BS and not knowing which might be knowledge versus what might merely be wishful thinking.
Andy Scrase (16:48:18) :
“help write the full story of the hacked emails scandal”
Interesting point here.
I fully expected my post (1st 1st for me) here to be snipped. It was intended for the “make a mod laugh at least once a week” pile. On that sequence at the Guardian I commented several times. None got through. Any mention of the work and opinion of Lindzen, Bryson, Spencer, Christy, Akafosu, etc, was removed, sometimes in moderation but mostly afterwards. I can only presume that some of the delicate “minds” posting on those pieces were so offended at anything an enemy says to add to the totality of human knowledge they felt moved to complain and have them stricken from their records.
So, for anyone wondering why the MSM is dying, and why the great unwashed are turning to free-thinking platforms in their droves, here is a great example. I posted here expecting to get censored yet didn’t, and I posted there expecting to join the debate and got cut out.
Tom P (16:21:22)…
…led me on a wild goose chase recently by vaguely referring to a different CA thread when I asked for the provenance of a hokey stick chart he’d posted.
After much searching and clicking on endless links at the general CA thread, containing hundreds of comments, I finally found it linked within a post.
But in Tom P’s link in his post above, there it is, posted as a pic. I could have found it in ten seconds if he had posted that link instead. Fool me once…
And Tom P neglected to link to the CA post that deconstructs his hokey stick treemometer chart and shows why he’s not been answered by Steve Mc — Tom is simply being a pest: click. It’s clear that Tom P would take up all the time Steve McIntyre has if he could. I wouldn’t answer him either, after his endless nitpicking, changing the subject when cornered, etc.
Regarding the rise of skeptic blogs, their popularity is a direct result of the worldwide movement toward the elimination of free speech by a tightly controlled government/media partnership. The story of the decade is the corruption exposed in the leaked CRU emails. But how many mainstream newspapers and national magazines have covered it in depth? Answer: none. Getting the truth out is done by internet blogs, which is why they are being targeted by the Administration here, and ‘democratic’ governments around the world.
Free speech is being extinguished. We can see it happening everywhere. This shows what is happening right now, right at this moment, in Europe: click
That link was in response to the Dutch government’s prosecuting this elected representative for for simply exercising his right to free speech: click. That link was recorded about a year ago, so he was being very prescient. What he predicted is now happening.
Plenty of people are threatened by the freedom of the internet, and they are intent on putting an end to it, goaded on by dinosaurs like TIME, Newsweak, the NY Times, and the rest of the lock-step old media, who are losing readers and viewers tired of being spoon-fed what they are told to think.
Somebody asked to see Gavin live, here’s Gavin vs. John Christy. Don’t be too disappointed, Gavin doesn’t say “Denialosphere” once…
As usual, regarding this QOTW, Schmidt is using transference (or projection) – speaking for himself whilst condemning others for his own vices.
That Gavin! He really has a way with words.
To maz2….This frontpagemag article ‘The Heretics: McIntyre and McKitrick’ reminds me that a few years ago, somebody organized a poll so that people could vote for the ‘the greatest Canadian ever’. My submission was Mark Steyn but regardless….the leftists mounted a strong (and ultimately successful) campaign to put Tommy Douglas over the top. If such a poll was ever held again, I propose that a grass roots movement be started to not only put Steve McIntyre on top but to push for a statue to be built in his honour. While we all owe a huge debt to many, Mr McIntyre has been a superlative representative of reason over the forces of glowbull warmist nonsense.
On the issue of the Mop and Wail, it is frankly a sad thing to watch how this rag has sunk so low. A once proud and irreproachable paper has been breached by the unhinged. On the other hand, it is nice to see that 2 out of the 3 Toronto newspapers are not afraid to call out the glowbull warmists. A very good op-ed in the Sun today…. http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2010/02/19/12952876.html
Smokey (04:34:35) : Once again, Smokey has hit the nail on the head, and used a sledgehammer to do it. Vaclav Klaus recognized early on in the game the warning signs of where the AGW agenda is headed. I could care less if some of you do not like the nature of my posts. I intend to make everyone that I can aware of the direction the AGW ideology is taking the world (clue; sadly, it has nothing to do with science or saving the planet). I hope to do this before we are all muzzled. Thank you, Anthony, for being given the opportunity to post my opinions on your blog !!
I would like to add that people need to realize we are not “the man”. Those who back AGW are supporting and being supported by “the man”. Wake up.
H. L. Mencken:
Just think that 100 years ago some guys with names starting with M were trying to measure the Ether Wind. And look how that turned out. If they’d only kept their heads down and listened to Conan Doyle.
Incredible. What scientific community is deeply worried about this shaping of public debate? It’s not the entire scientific community, is it? Or, is it that portion of the scientific community that is sucking up taxpayer dollars (stimulus funds?) for research that will certainly not provide the broad swath of humanity with anything to better their lives.
JeffK (15:13:18) :
Do you ever notice how liberals, when they go to attack somone they perceive to be a threat, actually wind up describing themselves?
That’s called “projection,” Jeff. I’ve seen some hilarious examples from Lefty commenters on milblogs.
BTW,
Does anyone know how much Galileo added to the reduction of the sum total of human knowledge?
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