I got this late, but this must be the most clueless thing I’ve ever seen, especially coming on the heels of the biggest ethics scandal ever in the history of Penn State. Maybe clueless doesn’t even describe it. I’m at a loss for representative adjectives.
An Ethical Critique of the Climate Science Disinformation Campaign
Dear Attendees of COP-17:
On Tuesday, November 29th, in a seminar organized by Penn State University and the University of Washington on the ethical dimensions of climate change join us to look at two issues.
One, an ethical analysis of the climate change disinformation campaign. We will examine whether this is a new kind of crime against humanity?
Second, we will look at the piratical significance for negotiations in Durban if climate change is understood to create human rights violations.
Tuesday, November 29th, 1PM – 5PM,The University of Kwazulu-Natal,Howard College Campus Howard College Lecture Theater
Donald A. Brown
Associate Professor Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law,
Director,Collaborative Program on Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change, Rock Ethics Institute,
Penn State University
126 Willard,
University Park, Pa, 16802
717-802-xxxx (cell); 814-865-xxxx (office)
dab57@psu.xxxx
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Reader may recall Brown is pretty much the whole department of the Penn State Rock Ethics Institute that previously tried to ethically link tornadoes to climate change.
FAIL
So what is the alternative lecture? Phil jones on “How to comply with FOIA requests”?
In a related seminar, wolves will be lecturing on the best ways to run a hen house.
It is a bit like getting Al Capone to lecture on, ‘Business Ethics”, isn’t it?
Its the Gulag for you Anthony.
High crimes against humanity. I guess Climategate 2.0 has e’m pretty riled.
Is that an oxymoron I hear….?
One can only assume this is a reflection on the whole of Penn State. I was taking James Delingpole’s book with a huge grain of salt. Maybe I was mistaken ….
How to bend tree rings into hockey sticks.
Or how about Michael Mann on the “Proper use of statistical methodologies with time series”?
Meanwhile, the ClimateGate message has not resonated to the outside world.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports World heading for 10th hottest year despite La Nina
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/world-heading-for-10th-hottest-year-despite-la-nina-20111130-1o5pc.html
Would any of them recognise climate ethics if it bit them on the nose?
no locker room humour please
oops
Well, no stacked deck there then!
Crimes against humanity…maybe they will invite JoePa to speak on that issue.
one: “the climate change disinformation campaign” – discuss this: who is doing the disinformation and why.
two: “the piratical significance for negotiations in Durban if climate change is understood to create human rights violations” – discuss how relieving the general public of its personal funds over a hoax is not a violation of human rights.
ps. Shouldn’t it read “practical” not “piratical”?
We must remember that Penn State is now the home of Michael Mann, arguably the most incompetent “scientist” on the planet and whose phony hockey stick helped launch the Great Global Warming Hoax. It has been said that Mann’s presence there has singlehandedly transformed Penn State into a 3rd rate science institution.
Isn’t it nice to know the world is in such great hands…………….
We must acknowledge they do have practical knowledge in ethics, if somewhat alternative.
You just made this up for fun–right?
“Ethics? We don’ need no steenkin’ ethics!”
This concludes our presentation. Questions?
@More Soylent Green
Aka: One of the coolest years in the past decade (though November is looking to be another big drop in temperature).
I don’t think it supports their position like they think it does.
‘piratical’ – really? That’s hilarious if so, as hilarious as the rest is sick and twisted. I hadn’t realised I and all of us here had the same standing as an SS trooper, because I disagree with mad people like this.
Sorry but I’ve having an George Carlin moment on this one!
How about this for ethics: The misery caused by handcuffing people over an unproven idea and the forcing of an agenda down the throat of a supposedly free people. If climate is proven to be cyclical, then who has been unethical here? The people perpetrating this situation, without allowing the simple test of natural cyclical reversal with an objective measuring device to actually prove what is right or wrong.
So let me ask Brown this. If co2 increases 1.5 ppm a year, and man contributes 3% or 1 part per 20 million, and the US is 5% of the globes population with a contribution of 1 part per 100 million, HOW IS IT ETHICAL TO FORCE CHANGE ON PEOPLE TO SOMETHING THAT IS OBVIOUSLY SO SMALL, IT IS ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE IT CAN DO WHAT YOU SAY IT IS. In addition, the percentage increase is decreasing each year.. as co2 levels rise, the increase is less relative to the total of co2. Given you are now claiming natural variability as the culprit behind the leveling off of global temps, only an unreasonable person would assume that the earth can not adapt to such minute increases, even if man was contributing it all, which obviously man is not.
When this is over and you are most certainly proven wrong, I hope you have the ethics to quit running to hidden heat and natural variability and face the facts, that you are not fit to judge the motives and ethics of people interested in the right answer, not just your answer
I speak for many PSU meteo grads from my era on this matter, btw, for I know many
Joe Bastardi PSU 1978
How about a seminar on how to cover up evidence of child abuse and data abuse?
Jer0me says:
November 29, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Penn State to lecture on “climate ethics”
Is that an oxymoron I hear….?
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No you read it wrong it is the State Pen inmates lecture on ethics.