Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
It doesn’t happen often … some would say not often enough … but I’m speechless.
Truly, I don’t know what to say about this. I can only shake my head and point and laugh. They are truly getting desperate.
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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
It doesn’t happen often … some would say not often enough … but I’m speechless.
Truly, I don’t know what to say about this. I can only shake my head and point and laugh. They are truly getting desperate.
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Possibly should be more accurately titled: Psychological effects of global warming propaganda in the United States…?
Has our professorial friend Kari got a chapter? Something like: The relative of efficacy of eugenics, psychotropics and brain electro-stimulation to the treament of climate change denial syndrome in a californian cohort of WUWT moderators…?
Now this is just getting ridiculous.
They are not getting desparate; they are winning. This is a full-fledged, full-on, take-no-prisoners media assault. The vast majority of casual viewers will see this as a topic with substance, even as they do not understand the content. Communications companies exist for a reason. Perception iseverything, and will trump substance everytime. Never, ever, under-estimate the power of guilt and fear, and never, ever over-estimate the intelligence of the mass audience. The vast majority of people would still sell Manhattan for $24 in beads and trinkets, if the sales pitch was properly crafted, and these people vote…
Any product or service that can be delivered on the shoulders of individual and societal morality can totally capture the intended market, if the message is strategically and properly delivered. In this age of manipulated media and warp speed communications and sound bites[bytes], you can tell a million people ANY message you want to deliver in seconds. Even if they don’t believe it, if it sounds plausible, the seeds of doubt, fear and guilt are planted. Focus on what people ought (they think) to do and you’ll drive them to what you want them to do with the right message. Religions have known this for thousands of years, Madison Avenue perfected it over the last 100.
The alarmists curiously claim that “the science” is settled.
Guess what guys, there’s no such thing as, “the science”. That phrase is only ever used by politicians and bureaucrats.
Ultimately there’s only ‘science’ and I have no doubt that truth will prevail.
If all you have is a couch, every problem is shrink wrapped ( to butcher a cliche’).
There is no evidence for this. I just returned to Connecticut from a wonderful week of enjoying the beaches of Costa Rica. I know people who go to Florida each winter. I know people who moved to Arizona and California. Those places are warmer than Connecticut in the winter, actually year around. There is actually a large travel industry devoted to transporting people to warmer climates; most who spend money on these trips enjoy the experience and return refreshed and wondering why they choose to live in cooler climates. Cold climates are related to misery, discomfort and depression. And while the Army taught me that I am responsible for my own happiness and I learned that I can be happy anywhere, given a choice between sleeping in a snow bank and sleeping on the beach in a tropical climate, I will take the tropical climate. I think most will.
Why are you surprised; they are correct. Global warming has caused mental problems for an increasingly small segment of the population. The warmers are depressed because the thing they most believed in has been shown to be a figment of their imagination. They were riding a wave but now the rip is pulling them into deeper water. The smart people didn’t go surfing and are standing on the beach waving them goodbye. Now don’t tell me you wouldn’t be in a panic too.
Well, I can answer the basic question right now: the psychological effect has been to bring zombies out of the woodwork to worship Al Gore and Hansen. Now every time somebody sees a cloud, or starts to sweat, they start running in a circle, like somebody form Monty Python’s Ministry of Funny Walks, screaming ‘It’s CO2! It’s CO2! The sky is falling!’
Sound about right?
As has been pointed out time and time and time again this is about jobs, careers, money and grants and has nothing to do with CAGW sending people mad.
From the source :-
Best bit ‘exposing the emotional side of the issue, to find the place in
our hearts’ If you don’t believe in the ‘Cause’ your heartless?
Oh and second paragraph why not slip in the ‘D’ word and imply that it can be treated.
Speechless.
[Formatting fixed -w.]
a trivial point not mentioned in Lisa Van Susteren’s bio at the end of the “report”:
VAN SUSTEREN, GRETA [1954]
Greta Van Susteren is a journalist and well known television personality, currently on the Fox News Channel, and earlier, from 1991 to 2002, on the CNN Channel…
Her sister, Lisa Van Susteren, a psychiatrist, ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate seat in Maryland in 2006…
http://www.nnp.org/nni/Publications/Dutch-American/vansusteren.html
hmmm….looks like most of this was written by Greta Van Susteren’s sister Lise.
Curious.
…whoops! Following on from my previous post of Prof Kari’s hypothetical paper, I really should have added to its title: ‘a proposed trial design’…. (hate to think that you might think that I was implying she had already got you guys!).
This is the setup “science” so next they can claim that AGW causes people to flip out and use firearms to kill people in public places. You watch, it will happen, as sad as this may be.
This surprises you? How far from this are we from this really?;
[google Apocalypto Sacrifice Scene, if you must ~ ctm]
Warning, video not for the faint of heart. Nor is climate science of course. It all feeds into the defective “Republican Brain” needing treatment. It’s been all over and everywhere of late. Just a happy accident for the warming community? This meme has been carefully developed.
There is something else aside from “desperate” involved. Who do you think the modern high priests of AGW want on the table in the video? Who do they want to “treat” in the process at the WWF??
The Soviets had a policy with regard to dissenters back in the 70s. Anyone who resisted the power of the state must be mad, therefore they were mad. The cure was to imprison them in lunatic asylums, which they did.
With the latest meme of skeptics somehow being mentally ill, do you get the feeling the alarmists would like to apply the same theory and solution to climate realists?
Pointman
The ironic thing is, these shysters are [b]contributing[/b] to ignorant people’s anxiety about climate change.
Q one…what is a JD?
and as for mental effects of climate change AGW whatever label they slap on it..
well the Major issues are FROM idiots like gore and hansen and their lies..
like the couple that killed their son tried to kill their baby and did kill themselves over it.
the old lady who wanted to euthanase her only friend, her dog because she was worried he might suffer if she was to die first.
people who have been evicted or had land resumed over this conjob.
people whos water or other amenities have been removed or cut by green laws enacted by fools like WWF and the rest pushing their barrow to local councils etc. CIGIAR agenda 21 millenium lies..
the stress and worry over nothing..the hikes in insurance meaning folks really do risk losing the lot cos they cant pay for coverage.
the fastest and easiest cure would be stopping the liars from spreading muck and untruths.
Priority for guidelines, models, training and other support should be given to mental health professionals
There’s the money quote.
As in, “Give us more money”…
Could only happen in America, I hope. Still we have our fair share of crackpots over here in the UK.
God bless canada, they have seen through this c**p.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lise-van-susteren/our-moral-obligation_b_187751.html
(Posted April 16, 2009)
Pffffffff, and she calls herself a psychiatrist.
Lord, have mercy with her patients.
In the source piece the use photos from 9-11 and the World Trade center aftermath including workers in despair.
Pathetic is a better word to build on.
This gang should definitely have their own heads read. The brainwashing to which they have been subjected and to which they have succumbed is evident from a reading of the Preface. Certain word associations have been crafted and cultivated into the minds of those authors. Little lights illuminate and little push buttons pop out upon receipt of mere whispers of carefully cultivated ‘catch phrase’ stimuli. The trigger words are heard, and immediately comes the chorus of response “We must save the planet–we must save the planet–do something–do something–NOW!”
They are beyond help. The world will continue to have a largely healthy population way after they have all become dust.
Geoff Alder (Old, but reasonably healthy)
I.R.Engineer says:
Now this is just getting ridiculous.
I can promise you that there is a lot more to come.
Sharks had better hide in the run up to the Rio bongfest.
Actually, I’d have to say that the constant doomsaying on the part of the Warming proponents and government tax collectors are likely to have untold psychological effects on a defenseless population. I know they had numerous effects on me up to and including intense feelings of anger in being taxed $23 a Tonne for CO2 from 1st July this year ( Actually that’s $84 per Tonne for the carbon bit – since we aren’t supposed to be taxed on the Oxygen bit). This is especially psychologically damaging when one does the math and determines that the tax won’t do a thing to reduce the globes temperature but will transfer $11Bn of welath from people like me to government coffers.
Actually, the psychological damage will probably be so severe, that I’ll be waiting on my veranda with a baseball bat come next october with a whole pile of like minded respectable people, waiting to exert retribution on my federal government, who are likely to be subjected to the biggest slaughter in living memory at the election booth – sending the ruling labor party (Read liberals in the US) into political oblivion for a decade.
PS> Just so I don’t get the cops around, the reference to Baseball Bats and Verandas comes from a famous quote by the Australian Labor Ex State Premier Wayne Goss in 75 when he famously said of Keatings Federal Electoral Defeat “voters had turned so violently on then-Prime Minister Paul Keating that they were “sitting on their verandas with baseball bats” waiting for the writs to drop” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Goss ) It’s a lovely turn of Aussie phrase that really does encapsulate the depth of feeling in the Australian Electorate right now.