I have to laugh at the juxtaposition of rhetoric today. It’s like a gift from the universe.
While Joe Romm launches yet another angry and hateful rant over at Climate Progress because of a poor editorial choice I made two years ago, and for (in his opinion) not being upset enough about the Heartland billboard fiasco (selective outrage actually, since he refuses to cite or link to my initial piece and poll critical of Heartland and Romm too), citing “let their houses burn”Steve Zwick in Forbes who relied on the heavily edited WaPo piece which didn’t use most of my comments from the 15 minute interview, we get this stunning window into the soul of an ethical green professor down under.
Andrew Bolt at the Herald Sun in Australia provides this “truly extraordinary stream of abuse” describing the rant of Professor Clive Hamilton, who, much like Joe Romm, is a hyperactive supporter of AGW alarmism:
On being abused by Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics
Former Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton is furious:
Who would have thought the Melbourne Theatre Company would get into bed with Andrew Bolt?
But here’s the thing. Hamilton is a professional moralist – a Professor of Public Ethics, no less. Standing for goodness, he denounces ‘the highly personal attacks”, “vituperation” , “vilification of individuals” .and “angry ridicule” that he detects from sceptics.
Yet in response to the MTC staging a play with the sceptic as a hero, Hamilton lets fly with a truly extraordinary stream of abuse:
…discredited … rat-bags … denier .. conspiracy theorists … fossil-fuel industry hatchet men … cyber-bullies … shit-spreaders … shock jocks … bullshit … insidious … grubbier … distortion … cowardly … artistic wanking … poison … slippery falsehoods … travesty
Wow. Just wow.
Full story here at Bolt’s: On being abused by Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics
On Romm, Zwick, Hamilton and all the other haters, who see themselves as pure defenders of the planet, casting us as “evil deniers”, without being able to self-examine the horrid rhetoric of their own, you just have to laugh.
UPDATE: Tom Fuller writes in via email with this part I missed:
Clive Hamilton, Vice Chancellor’s Chair, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
“Perhaps Richard Bean’s next project will be The Heretic 2, another “funny, provocative and heart-warming family drama” in which the maverick academic David Irving, lone defender of the truth, uncovers definitive evidence that the Holocaust never happened. Sent to Coventry by his fellow historians — a spineless lot who have for years been manipulating the evidence to protect their funding and their reputations — David is in the end vindicated; the Holocaust was a Zionist plot after all.”
Re Ed_B says:
You might be glad and smoking can be unpleasant for non-smokers, but the analogy still stands – the evidence for the dangers of passive smoking is paper thin,but has been seen as sufficient to enact all sorts of new regulations, as it has political backing.
Sounds like someone keeps a thesaurus handy. ;->
The loudest thunder gives the least rain.
This sure seems to prove the saying, “those who can’t, teach.”
Professor of Public Ethics
/case
One for my ethicists collection. Thanks. It’s filling up quick.
Werner Brozek says:
May 9, 2012 at 9:30 am
The loudest thunder gives the least rain.
“The flak is heaviest when you’re right over the target.”
Hamilton describes himself as “Professor of Public Ethics.” I have some recollection of someone else who had a job title involving “ethics.” Whatever happened to him?
this is an example of wy the HI folly was so bad: the true beleivers really are swinish. And it is not possible to hide swine stench forever.
They all play their part. A machine gun rant from someone who can’t be bothered to follow ‘the science’ but just ‘knows’ that he is up against ‘holocaust deniers’, loose a few inconvenient tree ring chronologies down the back of the filing cabinet when they don’t fit the narrative, Adjust a few surface stations here and there to remove the inconvenient message, ignore a billion dollar ocean monitoring system in favour of a man with a bucket and a thermometer and let’s not forget the ‘journalists’ and politicians that would rather sell what seems popular than actually investigate the whole mess. A pox on all their houses.
We need to identify the burial sites of all the ‘science greats’ and tap the energy from their spinning remains. Perpetual motion machines all.
Why, one might almost believe there is a media blitz on the horizon and position is everything. Any meetings/reports due soon?
hunter: “this is an example of wy the HI folly was so bad”
I disagree. I loved the opportunity to remind AGW believers about the “No Pressure” video and quotes from the Guardian about it being “edgy”.
Heartlands mockery wasn’t with a million miles of slick AGW fantasies about slaughtering children.
he’s a wind generator. don’t worry about dinosaurs.
idiocy such as this can not survive without huge subsidies.
Hamilton plot: “David is in the end vindicated; the Holocaust was a Zionist plot after all.”
Shows who is the true (holocaust) “denier”.
Is this his basis for denying the magnitude of natural climatic variations? (as evidenced in the geological record).
Clive Hamilton, Vice Chancellor’s Chair, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
“Perhaps Richard Bean’s next project will be The Heretic 2, another “funny, provocative and heart-warming family drama” in which the maverick academic David Irving, lone defender of the truth, uncovers definitive evidence that the Holocaust never happened. Sent to Coventry by his fellow historians — a spineless lot who have for years been manipulating the evidence to protect their funding and their reputations — David is in the end vindicated; the Holocaust was a Zionist plot after all.”
Well if anyone needs a reference as to what is meant by the abusive name-calling of “denier” I guess that’s about as direct as you could get.
I suppose that also helps us to understand the subtle difference between pure thoretical philosophy and applied philosophy.
3×2 says:
May 9, 2012 at 10:31 am
“Why, one might almost believe there is a media blitz on the horizon and position is everything. Any meetings/reports due soon?”
Rio20+.
John W. says:
May 9, 2012 at 7:15 am
I view these coincidences as proof that:
a. God exists
b. He has a wicked sense of humor
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I am not religious but Mother Nature’s timeliness is enough to make me a believer, or at least laugh. The Gore Effect (Washington Times) Obama’s return flight from Copenhagen (WUWT) the motorists stranded this winter as …snow jam[s] Southern California freeways not to mention the “BBQ” summer and flooding droughts in Australia, the UK and the USA.
You would think with the repeated hits the warmists would give it up instead they just morph the message and keep coming back.
Shit-spreader? That’s rich coming from the land of Vegamite!
Lets Face it we skeptics are just plain bad to the bone!
WHAT ARE SKEPTICS
Flat Earth believers. Anti science, Tobacco pushing, smoking rednecks. Intimidating and life threatening bully’s of Global warming scientists. (Especially in Australia) Tormentors of Climate scientist by demanding FOI data to substantiate the dire predictions of CAGW.
/Sarc off
Heretics of the Gaia and Mother earth … We are Discredited by warmist manipulated data and predetermined model outcomes …We are rat-bags for daring to question questionable science …We are evil deniers for NOT receiving Government and Green money grants to prove global warming is human caused.. We are Conspiracy theorists for presenting the real data and temperatures … We are highly paid fossil-fuel industry hatchet men (We all wish) … We are cyber-bullies simply because we ask for clear proof and un-manipulated / untainted evidence … We are shit-spreaders because what we say and show make sense of climate data and claims … We are shock jocks because we bring forward evidence of data tampering …We are bullshit because Al Gore says so … We are insidious because we want the truth. … We are grubbier because we will get our fingernails dirty to uncover IPPC cover-ups … We cause distortion of the IPPC misleading data to make it read as it was originally recorded not remodeled in an upward graph. … We are cowardly because we work for free and print our findings on blog-sites that the warmist can’t interfere with … We are a mixture of intelligent people that cover every walk of life that have sex and occasional are called wankers to further disparage us …We are poison to the Environmental doom and gloomers, they can’t take the truth … We are slippery because we always come up with the real goods on warmers climate shenanigans. We are filled with falsehoods because we expose the Hockey stick and prove the Middle Age Warming Period and the Little Ice Age was in a fact and Global in nature … It’s a travesty that we skeptics exposed every conniving data fudging lie and manipulation that Michael (Hockey stick) Mann and his carbon spewing friends like Al Gore present on a daily basis to their friends in the Mainstream media. We are accused of carry out personal attacks by simply questioning their sources and evidence.
We are Skeptics are accused of sustained and bitter railing and condemnation: vituperative utterance. I see most of this coming from warmest we skeptics are much to busy delving into the truth.
We are Skeptics are accused of are vilification of individuals and angry ridicule of warmers.
The simple facts, it is the angry name calling rhetoric that has flowed like a river from the warmist camp for years and it is now coming back to haunt them!
YEAH I’M A SKEPTIC AND LIVE BY A MORAL CODE – UNTAINTED BY THE WARMIST CREED OF LIES, MANIPULATION AND GREED. MOST SKEPTICS WHO READ THIS BLOG ARE THE SAME THAT’S WHY WE ARE PREVAILING!
David Gibson.
sunshinehours1 says:
May 9, 2012 at 10:50 am
hunter: “this is an example of wy the HI folly was so bad”
I disagree. I loved the opportunity to remind AGW believers about the “No Pressure” video and quotes from the Guardian about it being “edgy”.
Heartlands mockery wasn’t with a million miles of slick AGW fantasies about slaughtering children.
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I am beginning to agree with you. You can not change the minds of the cult members but the public at large are mainly fence sitters. The comparison between Heartland (and individual “deniers” here on WUWT) with the rants of Romm, Steve Zwick, and Public Ethics(???) Professor Clive Hamilton is quite telling. More over it brings the fight into the face of the oblivious fence sitter. And the fence sitters really dislike mud-slingers.
These ethics professors seem to be leading with examples of how NOT to act in public lately.
Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics
What, pray tell, is “Public Ethics” — conducting yourself ethically in public but going Mr. Hyde in private?
1. Something is either ethical or it’s not, and
2. Just because someone teaches ethics, it doesn’t necessarily follow that he is an ethical person.
Gail Combs says:
May 9, 2012 at 12:23 pm
You would think with the repeated hits the warmists would give it up instead they just morph the message and keep coming back.
Let them. The more they insist that CAGW causes warmer/colder, drier/wetter weeks/months/seasons, the extinction of thousands of species each year (without naming any), an increase in the cases of eye diseases, 20-foot sea-level rises, the more material they provide late-night TV hosts.
I guarantee you that more people* will remember what Jay Leno said about something than will have read anything on the original topic.
*with the exception of WUWT visitors, of course…
Gail Combs says:
“You would think with the repeated hits the warmists would give it up instead they just morph the message and keep coming back.”
Slow learners.
You can guarantee anyone who’s professional title includes the word “Ethics” is anything but ethical. Judgemental, moralistic, callow, petty, sanctimonious, self righteous… yes.. ethical.. no.
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
WTF is that? That’s a real thing?
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Alexander Herzen
It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves “thinking people” respond automatically to words the way Pavlov’s dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds
Thomas Sowell
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They’re the whores and angels of our striving selves.
John Le Carre
Consider this:
The warming and it causing some significant problems side of the debate are basically right on a large number of the issues, but have been tuned out as a result of how they have acted.
Whose fault does it become? (I know where they will point the finger.) The people who doubted them when they were correct, or themselves for their egos, their arrogance, their over the top claims of well funded deniers, death threats and criminals against humanity, their unwillingness to being open or accountable?
It is hard to keep an open mind when the people you may be at least willing to listen to are name calling, editing out unwelcome opinions and questions and making unsupportable claims and accusations.