From the Daily Mail, probably the worst alliance you could hope for if you are in the global warming movement. Manson says in a from prison interview:
‘Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere.
‘If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…’ he added, trailing off.
I didn’t know they gave Internet access in prison. Or maybe it’s old magazines. Either way, not the sort of advocate you dream about having.
h/t to WUWT reader “Neo”
Sounds a lot like the Unibomber.
But the sort they attract with their lies and shenanigans. Just like Cindy Sheehan and the Aryan Racist party, when all you have to offer is false, do not be surprised the company you pick up.
Great minds think alike; Hansen, Manson, Mann and Gore.
Doom mongers always attract the insane. See also Mr. “Squirrels and Froggies”. But why are todays doom mongers Greens and Warmists. What i never understood about the Greens is that they never celebrate the improvements in air or water quality that they achieved; same for warmists – after a lot of nations signed Kyoto, was there a big fiesta amongst the warmists all over the world? No. This tells me that both movements (with largely identical members) are deeply depressive systems; driving their own followers into a depressive, instable state of mind.
I am with “sceptical me” on this one. This is a story best left to other websites, amusing though it is in a macabre way.
I am old enough to remember the sheer horror of the Manson Family as it all unfolded.
Can you remove? You know it makes sense.
Does anyone else think Manson will think he has just got a lot closer to getting parole?
Arguably, the energy policies being pursued in the name of CAGW will negatively impact millions in the developing world as well as relatively impoverish ‘rich’ nations.
While I do not want to in any way to equate Manson with our politicians, the result of the actions of the latter are likely to cause more deaths and suffering than the former.
Similar analogies can be drawn with the DDT ban, opposition to GM crops, offensive wars (in both senses) etc.
Laws of unintended consequences.
I get both POVs that A) it’s a funny barely relevant news tidbit and B) it’s not worth discussing because it’s not seriously relevant to anything.
So, it’s neither worth taking seriously nor worth getting upset over. As much as my first instinct is snark, I would not have highlighted it as a news item, but “meh.”
On the other hand I don’t think other unthinking celebrities like Leonard diCaprio, Prince Charles, or Al Gore should be big discussion in the climate world, but they are. Double “meh.”
If we can’t hang him the least we can do is to ignore him…
Ha ha ha! Pretty funny – Charles Manson arguing for changes in behavior from a MORAL point of view! Ha ha ha!
Al Gore, Charles Manson, the EPA and Osama bin Laden all aligned in the “AGW Cause”. You gotta love it!
Isn’t this just par for the course?
If I recall correctly, lots of horrific mass murderers became supporters of Newtonian Mechanics, Quantum theory, String Theory and so forth.
This post was good for a laugh or two, but now I wonder if it really is irrelevent.
Is AGW becoming cult-like? Certainly, the likes of Manson and O. Bin Laden jumping board might suggest so. That AGW supporters would produce a video justifying unblieving children and others being blown to bloody bits is also consistent with cultish belief.
rbateman says:
April 18, 2011 at 12:12 pm
With advocates like that, who needs skeptics?
Exactly what he said!
There’s some rich irony here. The whole popular mythology surrounding Manson is nothing more than media sensationalism and gross misrepresentations by the authorities. Sounds a lot like “global warming”, eh?
“The real life Charles Manson was not some charismatic leader gone bad, but a pathetic figure from the very beginning.”
http://www.crimemagazine.com/manson-myth-0
Latitude says:
April 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm
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R. Shearer says:
April 18, 2011 at 2:08 pm
This post was good for a laugh or two, but now I wonder if it really is irrelevent.
Is AGW becoming cult-like? Certainly, the likes of Manson and O. Bin Laden jumping board might suggest so. That AGW supporters would produce a video justifying unblieving children and others being blown to bloody bits is also consistent with cultish belief.
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Thanks R. Shearer
That’s the point
It’s not really relevant to anything, but it’s still fun. Besides, if manson or bin Ladin was a skeptic you know what kind of play it would get.
bin Ladin is also on the warm side.
The gas chamber at San Quentin was once referred to as the Green Room. Of course if the Bureau of Prisons wanted to make the process even more sustainable they could consider a solar powered electric chair.
“U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether ‘Mother Earth’ Deserves Human Rights Status”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/18/prepares-debate-rights-mother-earth/
Charles Manson the chief speaker?
Brian H says:
April 18, 2011 at 1:07 pm
> Sounds a lot like the Unabomber.
Except the Unabomber read Scientific American while he was in grade school. That was in its heyday, with great columns like the Amateur Scientist, Mathematical Games, and ads for Questar telescopes that Dad wouldn’t buy for me.
At least he made me a Soma Cube and I figured out how to make hexaflexagons on my own.
In 2003 I bicycled through Lincoln MT where Ted lived in his cabin.
Hey! Don’t look at me funny like that. He’s eight years older than me….
Ignore him?
Indeed not, I can think of no better spokesman for AGW.
We should seek and publish his opinions regularly.
I’m surprised to see that not a single person here has properly put into context that which Manson has said – he said this in a prison interview in the mid 80’s ..
Why I assume that most people here in this room were in diapers at the time, I’m not quite sure…just a hunch.
its official. Fools, criminals and maniacs believe in Anthropogenic global warming (oops. Climate change. oops climate disruption)
Heeeeeeere’s Charlie!
I’m happy that a least one of them is locked up!! ha-ha
Sahen says:
April 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I think you would find that the most people here were well out of diapers in the ’80s. Were you?
I’ve reached the conclusion that global warmers never quite grew out of their diapers.