James Hansen’s understudy, eco activist and founder of 350.org Bill McKibben just gave me an endorsement, which I’m surprised about. The article, syndicated in a number of outlets is titled Climate-change deniers on the ropes
McKibben writes of the Heartland billboard, claiming it has put a damper on all things skeptic, and has pretty much driven Heartland’s donors away. Perhaps he missed this report where Heartland says the donors have doubled, despite losing some.
Here’s the money quote though. McKibben writes:
Whatever the final outcome, it’s worth noting that, in a larger sense, Bast is correct: this tiny collection of deniers has actually been incredibly effective over the past years.
The best of them – and that would be Marc Morano, proprietor of the website Climate Depot, and Anthony Watts, of the website Watts Up With That – have fought with remarkable tenacity to stall and delay the inevitable recognition that we’re in serious trouble. They’ve never had much to work with. Only one even remotely serious scientist remains in the denialist camp. That’s MIT’s Richard Lindzen, who has been arguing for years that while global warming is real it won’t be as severe as almost all his colleagues believe. But as a long article in the New York Times detailed last month, the credibility of that sole dissenter is basically shot. Even the peer reviewers he approved for his last paper told the National Academy of Sciences that it didn’t merit publication. (It ended up in a “little-known Korean journal”.)
McKibben goes on to name other skeptics, including Monckton and Luboš Motl, for their roles.
I got quite the kick out of this ending though:
But damn, it’s a hard fight, up against a ton of money and a ton of inertia. Eventually, climate denial will “lose”, because physics and chemistry are not intimidated even by Lord Monckton. But timing is everything – if he and his ilk, a crew of certified planet wreckers, delay action past the point where it can do much good, they’ll be able to claim one of the epic victories in political history – one that will last for geological epochs.
Gosh, “certified planet wreckers”? Where does one get a certificate like that? Is getting one like being a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, where only a valid credit card is needed? If so, maybe I’ll offer them here.
Couple of things Bill, since I know you read WUWT:
1. Where’s the beef?
2. Hansen’s alternate view of cause was swept under the rug, he’s flip-flopped on the causes of global warming back and forth.
3. Climate “Deniers” Winning the War
h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard
UPDATE: here’s another article, with “planet wreckers” in the title
NOTE: This is an update by Mike Lorrey, added after the fact – Anthony
“I’d proudly wear a Certified Planet Wrecker t-shirt, especially if it featured a Josh cartoon.
I smell a $$$ opportunity for Watts Up and Josh.”
I second that, Dickens. Josh/Anthony, please make it so! 😀
Bernd Felsche says:
June 4, 2012 at 9:57
Not Captain Watts, more like Darth Watts in the eyes of Weepy Bill.
Or how about a multi-armed Anthony Watts (aka Vishnu) with the quotation:
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” In the Looking Glass world of Weepy Bill, global thermonuclear war is inconsequential next to CAGW.
I guess none of the guys are serious scientists:
http://www.climate-sceptics.com.au/_files/2010_Senate_Minority_Report.pdf
http://climate-sceptics.com/
It’s an epidemic!
http://lordmoncktonfoundation.com/blog/view/196/due_diligence_deficit_disorder__dddd__
“Certified Planet Wrecker”, eh?
iam reminded of the old bumper sticker:
Earth First!
We’ll Strip-mine the Other Planets Later.
PS: I’ll be wanting a t-shirt or two also.
Hey there Little Willy, Remember saying this?
“This is the year we finally started to understand what we are in for. Exactly 12 months ago, an MIT professor named Kerry Emanuel published a paper in “Nature” showing that hurricanes had slowly but steadily gaining in strength and duration for a generation. It didn’t gain widespread attention for a few weeks—not until Katrina roared across the Gulf of Mexico and rendered a half million people refugees. The scenario kept repeating…”
That was in the August, 2006 National Geographic.
I guess that was the year we started to understand what we were in for: A whole lot of shrill Chicken Little screeching from cockless roosters. For six solid years we’ve had to put up with demented raving poisoning our hopes, frightening our children, deranging our government, and changing the world for the worse.
May 2012 be the year that you start to see what you’re in for: Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.
“Gosh, “certified planet wreckers”? Where does one get a certificate like that?”
Well, you could always apply to become a Gray Lensman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series
Anthony
A badge of honor indeed for a very highly effective effort on a shoe string budget.
Bill McKibbon has the sisyphean task of persuading people to “believe” in “catastrophic anthropogenic climate change” when nature is NOT cooperating. e.g., There is growing evidence that the IPCC “projected” 0.2C/decade warming trend is about 2 sigma higher than the actual global warming trend for the last 32 years. i.e., warmer that it is ~95% warmer than this historic trend of 0.138 C/decade from the satellite measurements. Furthermore, humans have adapted to far greater temperature increases after walking across the Beringia land bridge. The sea level has already risen some 120 m (~400 ft)!
PS Henry Clark
Check also with Marc Morano at Climate Depot:. See:
SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore
Also see NIPCC, and CO2 Science
Where’s this ton of money?
I ain’t seen it.
For info I had to pay out of my own pocket to see University of East Anglia (UEA) in court to win my FOI action. I represented myself.
UEA employed a nationwide firm of lawyers and a top barrister.
Where was “big oil!” when I needed them?
“Anthony Watts: Destroyer of Worlds.”
Yeah, destroyer of their alarmist fantasy co2 climate doomsday rapture world.
Watch them squeem and squirm, protest and yell more and more ridiculous claims as their fantasy world collapses under the crushing load provided by the Falsification by Mother Nature.
Falsification By Mother Nature: when a proposed hypothesis is crushed by direct unadjusted non-mannipulated observational empirical evidence from Mother Nature.
A Lovell says:
June 4, 2012 at 9:43 am
McKibben is less an understudy than a sidekick.. He is Igor to Hansen’s Frankenstein.
OK! That one got the keyboard! …and Monster thru the nose…
BTW – speaking of all things ridiculous, I just uploaded a copy of that infamous 10 10 exploding kids video on Youtube. Donna Laframboise was asking people to make copies before it vanishes, so feel free to copy and repost as it desired
quidsapio says:
June 4, 2012 at 12:51 pm
“BTW – speaking of all things ridiculous, I just uploaded a copy ”
Very much appreciated. Thanks.
PS: I’ll be wanting a t-shirt or two also.
With so many wanting to proudly wear a “Certified Planet Wrecker” t-shirt (myself included), I think the “Certified Planet Wrecker Extraordinaire” shirt should be reserved for Anthony alone.
I bet that when the CAGW scare is over it’s gonne be like when nazi germany fell and nobody in Germany admitted to being a nazi. Just wait 10 years for it. Oh and %¤&# Godwins law.
Tom in Florida says:
June 4, 2012 at 1:54 pm
With so many wanting to proudly wear a “Certified Planet Wrecker” t-shirt (myself included), I think the “Certified Planet Wrecker Extraordinaire” shirt should be reserved for Anthony alone.
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I will second that.
You are the “Silver Surfer”, serving “Galactus”. Awesome job man.
What power you wield.
Chuck says:
June 4, 2012 at 10:23 am
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On a side note, it continues to amaze me that the warmists continually assert that the skeptics are well funded when it’s exactly the opposite. I guess they’re practicing the old adage that if you tell a lie enough it becomes the truth.
One of the reasons we continue to have this trouble is that we just don’t promote the truth on funding much. Amongst ourselves, on site like this we joke about how we could use some of that oil money, but rarely tell the truth–we have a few thousands in funding and they have billions, especially NSF.
The “Certified Planet Wrecker” T-shirt should come with insignias of rank. Anthony, McIntyre, Lindzen, Spencer, Monckton and a few others should have four stars on each shoulder. Others will have lesser ranks.
Geez Blade, you just blew my mind. I would never have guessed that any sentient being could take Joseph McCarthy seriously.
Do you disagree with the Senate? Do you think McCarthy got a bum rap?
I’m not saying there were no communist spys and agents to worry about. The thing that was wrong with McCarthy was that he was willing to tell lies and ruin innocent people’s lives. Put simply; two wrongs never make a right. The ends do not justify the means.
McCarthy acted like many of the climate alarmists. They believe in their cause. They believe that gives them the duty and license to tell any kind of lies and do anything to ‘save us from the communists’ or ‘save us from catastrophic runaway global warming’.
Such people exist on the right and the left and they’re all vile.
commiebob: weren’t you paying attention when the wall fell in the late 80’s? There were a lot of the people McCarthy was after mentioned in the payroll files. Though the money was sent through handlers and many times the recipient wasn’t even aware they were working for the communists, but work for them they did all the same. McCarthy’s tactics were right out of the French Revolution, and in that he deserved his censure. Though the worst tactics were over in the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, most people blame their abuses on McCarthy. McCarthy’s biggest problem was not getting his evidence in line before accusing people publicly.
I want a certificate. It’s a badge of honour that you can show your grandchildren that you resisted the greatest scam ever perpetrated on human beings.
Hang it on the wall and be proud.