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
On point number two, perhaps I should send them a link to a critically important graphic to describe this piratical relationship:
http://www.venganza.org/images/spreadword/pchart1.jpg
(temp vs. pirates)
Climate Depot: “Climate Ethics Prof. Donald Brown Exposed for ‘vacuous spinning of science and subpar understanding of climate bill'”
See the link for the details provided against Donald Brown’s claims…
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/7689/Climate-Ethics-Prof-Donald-Brown-Exposed-for-vacuous-spinning-of-science-and-subpar-understanding-of-climate-bill-Dab57psuedu
The worse their position gets, the more outrageous their utterances, which makes their position worse….
Gail Combs: “And now we have the Farmland Grab:
George Soros, Al Gore, World Bank, Rothschild, UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT FUNDS are all buying farmland in Africa, South America and the USA.”
http://farmlandgrab.org/
Uh, exactly where in the link can I find Al Gore?
Thought a definition of thIs, to date, underused but highly apt “climate science” adjective might be in order:
pi·rate (prt)
n.
1.
a. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation.
b. A ship used for this purpose.
2. One who preys on others; a plunderer.
3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
v. pi·rat·ed, pi·rat·ing, pi·rates
v.tr.
1. To attack and rob (a ship at sea).
2. To take (something) by piracy.
3. To make use of or reproduce (another’s work) without authorization.
v.intr.
To act as a pirate; practice piracy.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prta, from Greek peirts, from peirn, to attempt, from peira, trial; see per-3 in Indo-European roots.]
pi·ratic (p-rtk), pi·rati·cal (–kl) adj.
pi·rati·cal·ly adv.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piratical
There goes that European trip to Spain and The Hague.
Note: I found this using the keyword ‘god’.
110902131
From: Phil Jones
To: REDACTED
Subject: Fwd: CCNet: PRESSURE GROWING ON CONTROVERSIAL RESEARCHER TO DISCLOSE SECRET DATA
Date: Mon Feb 21 16:28:32 2005
Cc: “raymond s. bradley” , “Malcolm Hughes”
Mike, Ray and Malcolm,
The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here ! Maybe we can use
this to our advantage to get the series updated !
Odd idea to update the proxies with satellite estimates of the lower troposphere
rather than surface data !. Odder still that they don’t realise that Moberg et al used the
Jones and Moberg updated series !
Francis Zwiers is till onside. He said that PC1s produce hockey sticks. He stressed
that the late 20th century is the warmest of the millennium, but Regaldo didn’t bother
with that. Also ignored Francis’ comment about all the other series looking similar
to MBH.
The IPCC comes in for a lot of stick.
Leave it to you to delete as appropriate !
Cheers
Phil
PS I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data.
Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act !
The scientist Jonathan Jones posted the following on Curry’s site at 4:30 EST:
Personally I have found Climategate 2011 far more serious, and far more depressing, than the 2009 version. Partly that’s just personal: it’s depressing to turn up evidence of Phil Jones conspiring to discredit me. (Not that these plans got anywhere, but that’s beside the point). But beyond that it has finally settled what was for me the central question: was “the team” wicked, or merely incompetent?
Up until now I could still believe that they didn’t know what they were doing, and that they behaved badly because they didn’t know any better. Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. But with the latest releases this position is no longer tenable. They knew exactly what they were doing; indeed they discussed it in great detail in private. Some of them even knew that what they were doing was wrong. And yet they went ahead and did it.
A very sad day.
Should make a good topic for Penn State’s ethics “lecture.”
Take this as a comment.
Have you ever considered that believers in catastrophic climate change have no inert intelligence?
Have you ever wondered why you know how to spell a complex term just by your cognitive ability?
Do you imagine it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eyelet of a needle than for humankind to understand all of the natural universe?
This is no joke. It’s terrifying. Stop and think.
They are trying to build an argument to have ‘skeptics’ put away for crimes against humanity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_humanity
The definition of what is a “crime against humanity” for ICC proceedings has significantly broadened from its original legal definition or that used by the UN,[18] and Article 7 of the treaty stated that:
…
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
If they can prove ‘skeptics’ are causing suffering to the UN. Then the UN can call for the ‘skeptics’ arrest. Yes… the UN… terrifying.
Think about this for a second. How long would it take to round up the 25? most vocal skeptics?
Stalin had no problem rounding up his dissidents
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2042
This is no joke. It’s terrifying. Stop and think.
NEWS FLASH
Climate Indicted for Crimes Against Humanity
Arrest Warrants Issued
By a unanimous vote of the COP17 Ethics Committee (comprised of Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria, Lybia, Sudan and North Korea) and indictment has been issued against “The Climate” for human rights violations.
Committee chairman Robert Mugabe made the stunning announcement.
“We’ve reviewed the evidence,” said Mugabe, “And there is no doubt that the miserable lives led by millions of people in countries such as ours are totaly due to changes brought about by “The Climate”. Further, we find that “The Climate” is a serial killer, having destroyed entire civilizations over centuries of time with tactics such as ice ages. “The Climate” is a terrible foe,” said Mugabe, “but we are willing to do our part and arm ourselves to the teeth in order to bring an end to the reign of terror “The Climate” is causing. We’re calling on all countries to send us as many weapons as possible, guns, tanks, fighter jets… we are on the front lines of this battle with “The Climate” and we stand in defence of the entire world.”
Meanwhile, international arrest warrants have been issued. In a major press conference, Interpol’s chief of communications announced that composite drawings of the criminal would soon be released.
“We don’t know exactly what “The Climate” looks like.” said the Interpol spokesperson, but we’ve got some eye witness reports. Our artists are right now working with those eye witnesses who have survived incidents spurred by the criminal known as “The Climate” such as floods, droughts,heat waves and blizzards. We’ve also called in experts on “The Climate” from such institutions as Penn State. They’ve been looking closely at the drawings so far, and have advised that “The Climate” seems highly erratic, but a clear hockey stick shaped profile is emerging.”
In other new, the EU has abandoned nuclear energy in its entirety, and will be shutting down all nuclear power sources.
“It has to be done,” said EU Commissioner I. M. Fullovit. “These things are dangerous. Do you know that once they are running we don’t know how to shut them down? We’re turning our largest nuclear power source off first, and our scientists have advised that they aren’t even sure how to do it. How much more dangerous can you get?”
Asked which nuclear power source he was speaking of, Commissioner Fullovit angrily shut down the press conference, yelling something about the big yellow thing in the sky. Our reporters are seeking clarification.
You just can’t make this stuff up. I swear, life is so much more fascinating than any made up fiction.
Wait a minute, it makes perfect sense. Didn’t I once see a graph on this blog clearly demonstrating an inverse proportional relationship between global warming and the number of pirates?
I didn’t know rocks had ethics.
My children’s children will understand more about ethics and be in absolute juxtaposition to Donald A Brown’s knowledge of it. The year is 2011. Civilisations have come and gone because of adherence to destructive ethical ideology. Some of us, in 2011, are over scarification of human progression because of a irrational of fear of the unknown. Donald acknowledges that there is uncertainty in climate science, so it’s only his ethics that are under question.
“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”
Bertrand Russell
This event says a lot about Brown’s personality. In a nutshell, Brown will explore his personal wonderfulness and then talk about the several unique “energies” that flow from his inner person.
Those energies include a life force that has a light side and a dark side. If he decides to unleash the dark side, all human life will end immediately except for the few he designates as “survivors.”
His great compassion for mankind is another “energy” that enables him to feel the pain of all people in Bangladesh and all impoverished people throughout the world. This great compassion gives him the purely moral strength to strike down those among humanity who have enslaved all the people of Bangladesh and similar places. He will accomplish this with a carbon tax administered by the UN and Julia Gillard.
An “energy” of intimacy creates his love for his colleagues and graduate students, especially the very young and tender among them who are in need of his touch. This “energy” bonds him so fully to the young and tender that others cannot see where professor ends and student begins.
An intellectual “energy” enables him to practice science beyond all the chains that bind mortal men, empiricists, and anyone who is trapped in reality. This “energy” has led him to see that the Uber-Scientist* must live beyond good and evil. The Uber-Scientist will free mankind from the myths of fact, evidence, and reason while the Uber-Ethicist will enable us to use other humans as the crucible in which the Uber-Uber is created.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! All come to hear and see Professor Brown shine his light on you, hold back against your annihilation, bless you with the carbon tax of his compassion, bond with the blessed among you, and teach you to create and to be the Uber-Scientist, the Uber-Ethicist, and the Uber-Uber. /sarc
If you don’t get “Uber-Scientist,” google Uber-mensch or Ubermensch.
I just went over to Pielke Jr.’s and he has a post that compares the changes made to the Extreme Weather report that was just released for COP17.
From:
“Long-term trends in normalized economic disaster losses cannot be reliably attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change, particularly for cyclones and floods (medium evidence, high agreement).”
To:
“Long-term trends in economic disaster losses adjusted for wealth and population increases have not been attributed to climate change, but a role for climate change has not been excluded (medium evidence, high agreement).”
Roger attributes that to the IPCC process….maybe he’s being droll, but I just call it fogging something up for purposes of disinformation. I.e. Propagandize.
The first says ‘we looked and found no correlation’…the second, ‘we pretty much don’t know…can’t say…but could be’
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/
Penn State to lecture on “climate ethics” and “child safety”
Some one provided a link to:
Decoded Mime attachments to FOIA2011 emails
Here:
http://www1001.megaupload.com/files/396d4bb3a8aa2981faaa87b67c4db639/CG-2-Attachments.zip
I can’t vouch for them though, but they seem legitimate.
And they want us to believe we are the unethical ones? More shenanigans (albeit deeply troubling ones at that) ;
http://drtimball.com/2011/climatic-research-unit-shameful-peer-review-control-tactics-the-soonbaliunas-debacle/
Barry L. says:
November 29, 2011 at 8:05 pm
I would hope that you and every other reader here would have the temerity to stand up and shout from the rooftops. Grab the pitchfork if necessary, for if what you suggest happens, it will not be long before they are coming for you too.
Well, my gob has been smacked.
During the last 100 years the leftist have tried several ideological paths(ideas).
Socialism, social democracy, national socialism, communism in many different forms etc.
Active radicals in the 60’s and 70’s at that time looked up at USSR, Khmer and Mao as an alternative to the Western democracy.
Their main attempt today is to establish a new world order with global enviro socialism.
And to put people behind bars for not beefing conform or question this ideologies claims.
Gives me a dejavu feeling?
It seems to me that if Penn State were to televise the lecture, it would be a shoo-in to win an Emmy for best comedy special.