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.
w.
Come now, this report has the ring of truth. But it will not be the “deniers” that will need the care but the followers of Gore and the Team when it eventually dawns on them that they have been had.
The important thing to remember is that they actually believe this stuff. Its not an act, they honestly think they are saving the world. That makes them potentially as dangerous as any religous fundementalist.
Beesaman says:
April 4, 2012 at 4:26 am
A psychosis has been built around AGW, it has been deliberate and the use of panic and alarm via the media, including the particular use of language has created a disconnect for many people from reality. But the reality of nature is very hard to hide from and this man made edifice will collapse causing massive amounts of cognitive dissonance in the AGW world. Buy your popcorn now!
Judging from the panic-stricken screeds of Mss. Norgaard and Van Susteren, the cognitive dissonance is already hitting. They’re desperate, and desperate people say (and do) insane things…
and of course they already have the kids needing physco help: http://theweatherchannelkids.com/climate-code/climate-close-up/extreme-weather/
If the second author is truly a MD then he should be reported to his state of registration and his medical association for a breach of ethics.
Remember the Y2K hysteria? People stockpiled supplies of canned goods, bottled water, batteries, and bicycles. Many were convinced civilization would crumble at 12:01 a.m., January 1, 2000. The hysteria over global warming is much the same, only reality will take years–perhaps generations–to set in. I have a feeling there will one day in the far future be pockets of AGW fanatics, perhaps living in caves or communes, scanning the skies, taking temperature readings, and waiting for the eventual arrival of world destruction. A long road lies before us.
Well, when your greatest fear is that the world (oh, I’m sorry: The Globe) is going to be roasted by man’s use of hydrocarbons, the most important thing to do is convene large groups of publicists to publish fearful news, ship massive quantities of paper hither and yon, burn tones of coal to send electronic missives, and set your house thermostat 0.7°C friendlier. As every driver of an automobile knows, when you’re blasting towards a cliff at 130mph (that’s 209.21472kph if you’re a climate scientist) the best thing you can do is slow down by 0.05% or so just before you fly off. Especially if you really really truly honestly believe in the cliff.
Dear Mr Willis Eschenbach
Loved this entry of yours.
The fate of the poor people submitted to psychiatric treatment is extremely important to me. And I think it is very unfair to mix them in the climate wars, just to try and frighten them, and the rest of the people, especially those who care for them even more, and gain publicity and leverage at their ( our ), expenses.
May the gods be with you and smile at you.
Your old Spanish fan (one of many, I know)
María Maestre
suissebob says:
April 4, 2012 at 4:54 am
The RWF Foundation, is that like the Heartland Institute?
The RWJ Foundation — named after Robert Wood Johnson, of Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals. RWJ is a philanthropic organization which specializes in funding practical health care (an excellent teaching hospital) and medical research (they give people a lot of grants).
I’m wondering if anyone at RWJ even *read* the pamphlet — it doesn’t reflect well on the organization.
First, define a mental disorder which encompasses the thinking of your adversaries. Second……
Unbelievable is the word that best describes the paper.
On the lighter side of things, reading this immediately brought to mind this scene from Galaxy quest where the Thermians are confronted with the fact that their heroes are actually liars. Like the crew of the NSEA Protector, we deniers need to admit our mental illness and come to our senses to save the Thermian, I mean, human race. Of course this paper sees the people of the world in the role of the cast of Gilligan’s Island. And can anyone come up with a good stand in from the leaders of the deranged deniers for the role of Sarris? Perhaps Lord Monckton?
The Chicken Littles are self-diagnosing. All one has to do is recognize that the people who write these sorts of things are self-absorbed. They project their fears on to others and then envision themselves as superheroes who can save the day. In a removed, dispassionate way it’s kind of fascinating, really.
larrygeiger says:
April 4, 2012 at 4:47 am
JD. They get a Master’s degree or maybe the equivalent of an MBA, but because they are lawyers they call themselves doctors. Go figure.
That way, they can chase their own ambulances…
Nah, they’re not winning. They’ve already lost in Canada, and they’re going down fast in Britain, Germany and Australia. The evil masterminds will never admit lying (see Kuhn), but their money is going down the drain as more countries decide to focus their tiny remaining funds on reality.
Just bear in mind that they’re spending lots of effort on a project that has no future.
Like Wile E. Coyote spinning his legs after he’s off the cliff.
The hubris and narcissistic tendencies of the eco freaks is sometimes incomprehensible…
Please come on Willis, youve missed the boat, April Fools Day has long since past 🙂
Of course this can’t be true but if it was does that mean people with mental health problems need an organisation called the National Wildlife Federation to protect them.
The graphic is top notch and all the text is on colored bands so it’s easy to replace. It’s just asking to be used in a Photo Shop contest. .
It’s appauling but isn’t the least bit “surprising”. The meme of believers as “victims” and skeptics as “perpetrators” who need “treatment” is nothing new. Chris Mooney and his Republican Brain book etc. etc.
The NY Times has been doing some version of the cousin argument; “conservatives are stupid” for about a century. It’s (select your own Godwin or Eugenic example) insert at this point for dehumanizing those who oppose your agenda. Skeptics are stupid and mentally ill, reeducation attempts first then medication…….then………..well……….. you know where this is going.
Tim Robbins, who admits to years of Bush hatred, yelling at his TV and finally abandoning the device is producing a version of “1984”. Dwell on the irony of that for a moment?;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9182670/Tim-Robbins-Ive-thrown-out-my-TV.html
I guess Orwell was really writing about corporations and the “1%” in the book?
Speaking of desperate did anyone watch the speech yesterday?;
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/04/03/obama_warns_gop_budget_would_make_weather_prediction_less_accurate.html
Memes like this don’t grow off the grass. They come from the Central Command and Control Committee. Aside from trying to kill people with hurricanes the GOP is scheduled to starve children, poison food and water, crash airplanes and kill old people on purpose;
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295181/obama-s-america-yuval-levin
Paul Coppin says (April 4, 2012 at 3:46 am)
DirkH says (April 4, 2012 at 5:01 am)
“They are not getting desparate; they are winning”
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I fear Paul is right – they are winning.
The first thing a rational person has to do is to recognise that most people aren’t rational.
Sceptics have been fighting with facts, figures, physics, and all things designed to win minds.
Warmists have been fighting with photoshopped smokestacks, faked distressed polar bears, doom-laden soundbytes, and loads of cash to PR companies. They win hearts.
Sceptics don’t have the money for PR companies, and no PR company is going to help sceptics pro bono because that would upset the warmist groups who have all the money that the PR companies want to grab.
Everything is about perception. So now they have co-opted the weather (a respected commentator in the UK said last night on TV “Look at last weeks sunshine and heatwave and this weeks snow. You have to believe something is seriously wrong with the climate [sic]”. So now every cold front, warm front and blocking high is a new batallion for the warmist cause.
Welcome to the modern world, where PR trumps science; vicarious emotionalism on behalf of furry animals trumps any facts about nature; and where the self-appointed Planet Savers drown out the planet when it says “Actually I don’t need saving. Now piss off”.
Sad…
Okay, let’s get one thing straight. The term “doctor” was originally applied to lawyers before it was used by the medics. JD stands for Juris Doctor, or “doctor of laws”. It replaced the old baccalaureate degree because it was granted only after post-graduate work.
A friend of mine and I used to kid around with the PhD chemists by referring to each other as “doctor”. The term is not, however, in common use for lawyers. The common term is SOB.
Jim Brock, JD Georgetown Law 1960.
Yup, the psychology of “denialism” is the new front in this assault on reason, this corruption of science. I predict the next move will be along the lines of “denialist’s” repressed memories and after that we will all be afforded “assisted communication” via the agency of approved spokespersons appointed by the IPCC.
After that will be a chapter in the next IPCC report that we were all sexually abused as children by oil company executives and our puppies and kittens burned alive in front of our little eyes or something.
Bill Tuttle says: April 4, 2012 at 4:32 am
Aren’t they two sides of the same coin — lawyers and juvenile delinquents? Both tend to be self-centered and cause societal disruptions, but only one is considered “good”; the other “bad”. [I’ll leave the determination of which is which to you. 😉 ]
Homo sapiens (homo insipiens in the case of climate scientists) is now officially “wildlife”. However The National Wildlife Federation has forgotten to include a section on the mental health of… …wildlife. Maybe next time, could be very profitable, all those sad furry critters needing some SSRI’s and a course of NLP. :o)
Psychiatry in this form is simply fear induced fascism. The practitioners get away with so much because as Leonard Roy Frank said: “Mystification is psychiatry’s defense against the danger of being found out”.
Meet the Thermians
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PKNjftFeg ]
And there seems to me to be a remarkable resemblance between these two:
http://www.movievillains.com/archives/2003/03/sarris.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Monckton
REPLY: Why let your irrational hatred stop there? Go straight for Lucifer – Anthony
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