UPDATE: University of Oregon responds, see Update #3 below.
I’ve been purposely ignoring this ugly pronouncement related to “Planet Under Pressure“, because well, it was just so beyond ugly and it brought up visions of the Soviet politburo defining political opposition as a mental illness. As Andrew Bolt put it, Something is sick, and it’s not the sceptics.
But now there’s been a cover up, and I have the goods.
Apparently, the maelstrom of embarrassment and public ridicule created by Kari Marie Norgaard, professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of Oregon was too much for the University to bear. So, in the best Soviet style, they rewrote history, as if nobody would notice, without so much as an apology or update. I find it amazing in this day an age that University types still don’t understand the Internet and that disappearing things like this only makes it worse for you.
Now you see it:
Source: Google Cache which says: This is Google’s cache of http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2012/3/simultaneous-action-needed-break-cultural-inertia-climate-change-respons. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Mar 29, 2012 21:42:11 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime
Now you don’t:
The words “and treated” have now been sanitized from the University’s press statement, which is located here:
I hope that the University of Oregon Alumni are made aware of this.
h/t to Christopher Monckton
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UPDATE: It seems Norgaard herself has been “disappeared” from the University of Oregon web server. In the ORIGINAL press statement that I got from Google Cache, there’s a link to Norgaard’s faculty page, a portion of which I used in my third paragraph above.
Here’s the screencap, I put yellow highlight either side of the link to her page:
That link goes to: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/norgaard.php but that gives a 500 Internal Server error now:
Although she still appears of the sociology faculty page listing at:
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/index.php
…that link is dead as well, but other faculty members on the same page have working links.
And, further, the link from the original press release has also been removed in the revised one, note the missing link underline between the yellow highlights on Norgaard’s name:
Curiouser and curiouser.
Again, Google Cache is your friend:
What a bunch of rank amateurs. Maybe they’ll soon go from being called The Mighty Ducks to “The Mighty Schmucks”.
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UPDATE#2 – It gets worse. As pointed out in comments, apparently her official uoregon.edu email address has been replaced on the Sociology Faculty page. On the Google Cache for that page, as it appeared on Mar 28, 2012 19:55:22 GMT, the “send email” link for Norgaard goes to a uoregon.edu email address. On the current page, it goes to a yahoo.com email address. If they were trying to shield her from hateful email, why shift it to a private email account?
Something is going on behind the scenes that we aren’t privy to yet.
UPDATE#3 4/3/12 2PM PST
UO responds:
I asked Jim Barlow, director of science and research communications, University of Oregon when and why the sentence was changed. Here’s his response:
“I intended the original first sentence of the news release to function as a play-on-words on our researcher’s message about recognizing and addressing cultural inertia. Unfortunately, the word “treated” became the focus of the story, leading to inaccurate portrayals. In an effort to shift the focus back to the actual topic of the conference presentation, I chose at midday Monday to remove the word from the version of the news release that appears on our website.”
Source:
http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/call-climate-skeptics-be-treated-removed-universitys-press-statement (h/t David L. Hagen)
No mention of why her faculty page disappeared.
Richard says:
April 3, 2012 at 3:04 am
Astrud Gilberto – – I was so much in love with her. I’ve still got the album 🙂
The sax solo was by the great (and late) Stan Getz. Awsome album.
Richard says:
April 3, 2012 at 3:36 am
It’s probably not fair and may be considered as cruelty to dumb animals, but it’s fun.
“Wow — you’ve got a doctorate in Philosophy? Say, what is it with that Kierkegaard fella and the paradox he posits with the knight of faith?”
Then wait for it. As soon as he starts talking about a “night of faith” — pounce.
Wait, her book “Living in Denial” was published by *MIT PRESS* ??
What’s going on over there in Cambridge, MA? What editor approved this pubication?
Good Stalinist behavior on display here – Lysenko, anyone?
If she wrote her bio, she can not spell climate change: climate chage.
I notice here that on one seems to be saying how ugly she is. The other blogs about her have 50% of posts relating to her ugliness. See nice people at WUWT.
I myself do not think it is right to have a go at her because of her unfortunate looks. Poor girl, I wonder if she has ever had a boy friend? Hmm maybe that is her real problem.
Richard, you must visit Ipenema – the girls ARE fantastic (I guess the men are too, for a woman). The irony is that this song was written as a parody of Bossa Nova and became it’s prime example. It’s my theory, that is mine, that the melody mimics the way Brazilians speak, long at one end, thick in the middle and … oh, wait, Monty Python attack!
I sent her an email (knorgaard1@yahoo.com) all it said was WUWT.
Enough said I think.
“When I hear the word (sociologist) I reach for my revolver” (pace Otto von Bismarck). In these matters, prevention is the only cure… craven and dishonest as this eco-wacko is, the institution that harbors her and many another of her ilk is far more so.
she is far from alone in wanting to “treat” anyone who dissents from her view,
heres a collection of others
http://www.prisonplanet.com/green-fascism-the-growing-threat-of-eco-tyranny.html
and then theres that USA senator who thinks whacking lithium in americas water is a nice idea.
a zonked population is controllable..seems the 50% overprescription of SsRI etc isnt enough?
Since Dr. Norgaard recommends a compact urban lifestyle for us, I’d be interested in seeing the way she lives. Does she practice what she preaches or does she have a 2000 sq.ft. house with 2 car garage and one acre of land? I get tired of the Al Gores and Barbra Streisands of the world telling us how to live while they guzzle down their wine and expand their CO2 footprint! And she’s using taxpayer money to fund this ‘research’. (face palm)
Dr. Norgaard, heal thyself first, let me worry about my family and my own lifestyle.
She has a PhD in sociology? And yet thinks she is qualified to comment on the science of climate?
I have an MBA. That makes me qualified to perform your triple bypass, right?
I heard Rush Limbaugh take this lady apart on his show yesterday–he was making a proper mockery of it in typical Limbaugh fashion. I’m sure that helped push them over the decision to delete.
[snip . . childish, schoolyard attacks on people’s appearance don’t really belong here and add nothing to the debate . . kbmod]
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I have the CD too. It lives in the autochanger in my car. When I need “treatment”, I know where to look, and it isn’t from a sociologist in Oregon.
It’s interesting that if you search for Norgaard and click ’email me’, it goes to a new email address (it has a 1 on the end of it). I think Morano’s or your publishing of her email address might be the root cause :).
The proper forum for change, and the discussion thereof, is at the voting booth and in opinion pieces. Short references to violence, even when made in jest, are inappropriate. A substantive comment moves us along much further than some of the comments I have read here.
My voting record put people like this sociologist in places of influence and has funneled my own tax dollars to universities that obviously place a premium on nonsensical research such as this woman’s research efforts.
My enemy is me, not this woman. Buyer beware.
When you think about it all one sees is another person making money off the scare. Studying climate change denial is her occupation. Unless she believes it is real she has to admit her entire life’s work is garbage. Very similar position as many climate scientists. Their egos and occupation depend on continue to claim climate change is real. The temperature could drop by 5° and she’s still be making the same claims.
minor correction:
Although she still appears of the sociology faculty page listing at:
s/b
Although she still appears on the sociology faculty page listing at:
How did an obscure article from UofO end up with a London release?
We will be told this article was: “…just a thought experiment” and not to be taken literally. It was designed as part of a sociology study to observe how groups react to “extreme” views. Thank you for participating in my research.”
Judging by the posts on this thread, I would say ” resistance is fertile”.
Cue the statement from her University saying her details were removed for her protection.
I imagine that Kari is very familiar with the works of George Orwell as it would appear she uses his works as blueprints or templates instead of the warmings they were meant to be. In any case, she could be just another Marxist revisionist. This situation is ugly indeed.
I was thinking of writing to Kari’s boss about flinging around the R word with such serendipity but then I thought the better of it-
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/hollander.php
and if I was having any second thoughts about it whatsoever-
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/cv/hollander.pdf
Only concentrated sunlight will drive these lunar space invaders back beneath the moon rocks from whence they came. The sociology of food??? It’s like this Jocelyn. As my dear departed mum used to remind us occasionally when we were dithering around with our food like sociologists- ‘Sit up and eat up properly you lot because if you don’t eat you don’t s#*t and if you don’t s#*t you die!’ and we didn’t go to gender spaces to wash our hands before and after. What on earth was your mum teaching your mob?
imo, She’s a shrink (of some sort, I suppose) and as such would have no unique first hand knowledge of climate. I doubt she has the CV to determine the validity of CAGW. She would have to know and be able to prove CAGW as portrayed is true. Amazingly, she didn’t go after the people that made polar bears rain from the sky, those blowing up children or those that allowed children to be taught the lies of the Gore movie. I suppose this is all normal communications to her and those at UO protecting her. And I’m the nut, eh?
I think, therefore I deny.
I am startring to like ‘kbmod’ a lot. He has snipped me when I went too far, and his decisions on what is acceptable behaviour are mainting standards here. I thank him or her.
Richard