The National Wildlife Federation Jumps The Shark

Surreal.

Apologies to all those scientists who are open minded and therefore definitely not homo
insipiens. :o{

It seems to be driving you all crazy. 😉

Geez, 9 of the forum’s 22 participants are dedicated to saving us from global warming:
Nice to see so many differing organisations all dedicated to the same cause?
Everything should be under control, then!
A list of climate warming orientated postions :
Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project The Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, Boulder,
Founder and Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Vice President for Programs H.J. Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Center for Naval Analyses Executive Director, Military Advisory Board, ”National Security and the Threat of Climate Change” project
Senior Scientist, Climate Change Research National Center for Atmospheric Research
Associate Director for Global Climate Change National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Director, Center for Climate Change Communication George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
DirectorChesapeake Climate Action Network Takoma Park
Vice President, Global Warming Solutions, National Wildlife Federation,

Dirk and Paul: maybe you are both right! That’s what we call a Win/Win!
But first, Paul, it would seem that Dirk does not agree with you; how does that make you feel?
Uh-huh…mm-hmmm…OK. OK that’s just great; Dirk is OK and Paul is OK. OK!
Let’s see if we can clarify a few things. Paul I don’t want to put words in your mouth but I am going to anyway: Dirk, I think was Paul is trying to say is that the lying liars are very high technology liars and we are really stupid for not noticing what they have been doing all these years. Let’s all say it together: Freeze, Isolate, Ridicule. And that works really well when you have all the JDs, PR people, rent-seeking corporations, bien-pensant smarty pantses, NGO types, and the list goes on an on, uh…on your side. Even “conservative” politicians have sat on the love seat of deep-deep climate understanding so…Dirk, you can see why Paul might be less than optimistic…uh-huh…mm-hmmm…
Now Paul, I think what Dirk is trying to say is that at some point ordinary stupid people notice that New York is not under water, energy costs are going up along with every other cost, and that it is not working out to have everybody working for the government taking meetings, writing reports (ungrammatical reports too I might add, but then who hasn’t misplaced a colon from time to time),
caulking windows and so on. Now when I say stupid I mean that in the best possible way. Think of it as a form of multi-culturalism for people like me, born and (in)bred in the South. Heck we are so stupid, we live in the South and go south on vacation! In fact we are so stupid I suggest ya’ll come and play poker with us. Free money!
Now, if we let wee Kari at the water supply or it gets Darkness At Noonish around here like Jimmy Hansen might like it will get worser before it gets better. But it will get better. There is this odd primitive behavior that Southerners and honorary Southerners all over this country still engage in: pro.cre.ation. The future will belong to those who show up. Even if you convinced us that it would be at the cost of each and every Polar Bear we still will not have our children live in the cold and dark. I think it will take a long time but if we do not win this world back from these Malthusian barbarians ourselves we will be standing with our children when they do.
And that’s all I have to say about that.

I happen to agree that climate change has psychological effects on people, it’s just a matter of ranking it among the other things that affect psychology. Observe:
1.Physical Security
2. Autonomy
3. Achievement
4.Loving Family(or lack of)
5. Affordable Health Care
6. Financial Security
7. Sexual Relationships
8. Physical Fitness
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1,245. Performance of favorite sports teams
1,246. Canceling of favorite tv shows
1,247. Climate change <————Bam!

Note from the wiki article on Lise Van Susteren, she is a bought and paid for activist in the Global warming circus, and one of the “selected” propaganda generators for the Al Gore machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Van_Susteren

“… In September 2006, Van Susteren was chosen as one of the first 50 persons to be trained by Al Gore to give her version of his global warming slide show, “An Inconvenient Truth.” She returned several times to The Climate Project in Nashville to help Gore train 1,000 presenters. She was named Eastern Regional Coordinator of the Climate Project in 2007 and was elected to its Board of Directors in 2009. She has presented her global warming slide shows to over 100 civic, educational, religious, labor and environmental groups in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, nationally and abroad. In 2008 she developed an additional slide show focused on the health effects of global warming.
Van Susteren is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Wildlife Federation and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. She was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the Board of Trustees of the Chesapeake Bay Trust and to the Working Groups on Transportation and Energy of the Maryland Commission on Climate. In 2009, she was appointed to the Climate Energy and Environmental Policy Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments in Washington, DC.
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She is obviously fully invested in the CAGW campaign and is likely one of the originators of this movement to cast honest skepticism and a mental illness. Sort of like the home repair scammers that flock to a tornado area after a disaster she is scurrying around in the debris left by the global warming campaign trying to create an industry treating people for their global warming anxiety and folks suffering from delusional denial syndrome.
Her medical degree was attained in Paris (medical degree in 1982 from the University of Paris and interned at the Hospital St. Anne and the American Hospital in Paris) so I would suspect she was indoctrinated with “the cause” in the European model. When she got her degree was about the time acid rain was the cause celeb in the environmental movement in Europe.
This should be treated as a propaganda document straight out of Al Gore’s brief case.
Larry

cui bono says:
April 4, 2012 at 6:25 am
“I fear Paul is right – they are winning.”
Hm. They’re talking about psychological consequences of Climate Change. One of their many lines of “reasoning” is:
“Psychological Responses to Violent Weather Generally
Extreme weather events can lead to immediate psychological problems relating to loss, economic disruption and physical displacement. Fear, grief, depression, anxiety, problems sleeping, eating disorders and self medication with alcohol and drugs are common responses.”
People start drinking because of violent weather? Really? I mean they can only hope winning if they can assure that nobody of the public ever reads that. In general you don’t win by making a complete clown of yourself. Well in a clown contest maybe.

This gets BEYOND hilarious!
On the second page it is plain there has been a misdiagnosis: The very first casualty of “the stress of global warming” is in fact a victim of “the stress of climate propaganda”.

In the first known “climate change delusion” a depressed 17 year old boy was hospitalized for refusing to drink water out of fear it would cause many more deaths in drought ridden Australia. The doctor who treated him has seen other children suffering from climate related anxiety disorders. A body of research showing how distressed Russian and U.S. children were by the threat of nuclear bombs during the cold war era underscores the potential for global climate change to have the same destructive impact.

Even more amazing when you consider that Australia’s biggest issue for the last 3 years has been widespread flooding.
Surely this is all an elaborate hoax?

Sorry guys but knowing advertising as I do, the need to “jump the shark” when the product is selling doesn’t exist. The pitch then adjusts to “it’s selling” variants as people get on board what they perceive as being socially relevant as you’ve witnessed with everything from the iPad to obesity being the number one health problem in America. No successful marketing company on this planet craps the bed they’ve just spent a fortune successfully making and if the hype is to be believed that AGW has indeed a fortune being invested in advertising, they would have hired such.