How Green Gullibility, Hyperpartisanship Are Wrecking The Climate Movement
by Walter Russell Mead The American Interest (excerpted)
One of the biggest intellectual failures of the global green movement against climate change is the persistent failure of its leaders and spokespeople to grasp the way their own advocacy fatally undermines their credibility. They blame cunning, unscrupulous and well funded enemies for disasters that their own inaccuracies, overstatements and disingenuous advocacy have brought on their movement.
Robert Murphy over at Master Resource has an excellent essay that shows how the credulous and gloating response of so many greens to the Heartland Institute affair and the faked document at its core made the green movement much less credible as a source of reliable information about climate matters.
Says Murphy,
The Heartland affair has shown not merely that some climate alarmists (namely Gleick) will stoop to outright deception, and most of his peers will close ranks to defend him in a sort of Green Wall of Silence. Perhaps more disturbing, it reveals that these people really have no idea how their opponents on the climate issue actually view the world. So when they dismiss skeptics as having no legitimate arguments, it should make outsiders take pause.
Without being a trained climate scientist, I can read the various blogs and try to parse the academic papers, but ultimately I have to rely a lot on the good faith and judgment of the scientists themselves. The Heartland affair has reassured my earlier conviction that the case for climate alarmism is far weaker than the alarmists have been telling us.
Murphy is writing here more about the green advocacy and blogging community than about the actual scientists, but this is all the more important as illustrating how advocacy has gotten so far away from science and ended by weakening the credibility of the green agenda. Read the whole thing.
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The root cause of all this remains, in VM’s opinion, a truly idiotic set of policy proposals that, no matter the state of the underlying science, simply cannot and will not be implemented.
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make green. Just ask Peter Gleick.
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Full article here
RobRoy says:
March 26, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Gail Combs says:
March 26, 2012 at 7:13 pm
I’ve found some more on it here, http://www.thehiddenevil.com/media.asp
Steamboat Jack says:
March 26, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Julian Flood says: March 26, 2012 at 11:37 am
“I resent the fact that Stalin got away with it.”
In “Stalin’s Last Crime”, the authors speculate that Khrushchev and Beria poisoned Stalin with Warfarin from the symptoms he exhibited.
I’d heard of some of this before: http://www.thehiddenevil.com/communists.asp
It’s not the rich that are the problem here, it’s the bwankers who having got very very rich by lending to both sides in disputes saw that way lay greater riches and began to manipulate to create disputes, and then stepped into the game themselves by controlling governments and this is when they re-introduced in the US, from Britain, their control of the money supply. Since then they have created a system for themselves setting the amount out of nothing they can claim is money, and trade in that ongoing. From this, they became ridiculously rich, so would anyone who could put 100 dollars into their own bank account and could call it 1000 and then even magik that 100 out of nothing, like debt; someone borrowing from them creates it, and other variations. http://www.themoneymasters.com/faqs/
They got bored, and what could be more exciting than playing their version of God? So cue in the One World Governance, the New World Order, with all these sincere and emotionally energetic greenies available to push the wagon. I saw a page somewhere, didn’t book mark it, that looked at various lists of who were to be counted as terror ists, anyone mentioning the Constitution was on one..
I’ve been thinking a bit about this, but not able to concentrate on it, what can be put in place re money supply so that it remains merely a means of delineating value in exchanges? Somewhere I made a note of the name.., but one man talked about the old tally system which bankers couldn’t beat. Anything like the gold standard ends up with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, because that is control of a finite commodity, when the ideal is simply a means of expediting barter.
I’m getting concerned that as more people become aware of how manipulated we’ve been that some will think the solution is violence to change it, but that always plays back into their, the manipulators, favour, they’re well practiced in maintaining control in violent confusion. I think we need to have something to put in its place while spreading the examination of the background to all this. the Constitution, that is, the ground of its being which is Common Law, is one aspect very much relevant because without teaching this people don’t know that this has been targetted for destruction – the meme democracy put in its place which is tyranny by the majority, or who think they’re the majority, and so don’t realise just how much our freedoms have been taken from us.
Anyway, just my thoughts as far as I’ve got, that these two aspects, a new, or rather the old tally system if that is just a means of helping exchanges, and reclaiming Common Law for all, are two sides of the same coin and they need, I think, to be linked together in this in presenting an alternative to the bwankers.
Interesting article here:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/if-at-first-your-dont-succeed-rebrand.php
Myrrh, Smokey, thanks for the links.
If you haven’t looked at them already, here are references on money/economics. (CAGW is by now obviously driven by the money motive and not science.)
An excellent in depth explanation of how the US Federal Reserve works can be found in:
A PRIMER ON MONEY: Congressional COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY.
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/Money/patman-primer-on-money.pdf
A short history is here: http://hubpages.com/hub/How-The-United-States-People-Was-Betrayed-In-1913-By-The-Federal-reserve-Act
Money is Created by Banks: Evidence Given by Graham Towers
Some of the most frank evidence on banking practices was given by Graham F. Towers, Governor of the Central Bank of Canada (from 1934 to 1955), before the Canadian Government’s Committee on Banking and Commerce, in 1939… http://freedomprime.blogspot.com/2008/08/money-is-created-by-banks-evidence.html
Economist Mises on Money: http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north83.html
Note:Mises former disciple, F. A. Hayek, shared the Nobel Prize in Economics. Hayek won on the basis of his theory of the business cycle, developed in the 1930’s, which was based almost entirely on Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit, and also for his theory of the free market as a transmitter of accurate information, a theory developed originally by Mises.
DATA over time
Gold price http://www.finfacts.ie/Private/curency/goldmarketprice.htm
Money supply http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/BOGUMBNS.txt
Min Wage http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm
Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves. ~ Norm Franz