[Update, Parncutt has pulled his page, the webcite link still works, 1:00 am PDT 12/24/12 ~mod]
UPDATE2: 9AM PST 1/24 The Parncutt page now gets a 404 “file not found” error, which to me suggests that University of Graz officials pulled the plug on it rather than Parncutt, as Parncutt alludes to and expects the reactions in his ugly essay and was prepared for them. Based on his demeanor, if he had pulled it, I posit that he would have left some rationalization essay in its place. In the wake of well known mass shootings this year, I suspect the University of Graz didn’t want this PR disaster on their hands before it got beyond the blogging world and into the MSM. See below for the page that I archived using an established and accepted archiving service – Anthony
UPDATE3: 5AM Dec 25th, Parcutt’s page has returned, completely rewritten without a hint of the ugliness of the previous one. It’s a Festivus miracle! I blame the airing of grievances. – Anthony
The bizarre world of AGW proponentry continues. I wonder how David Appell will react to this one? Jo Nova tells us of the latest climate ugliness that is beyond bizzare, and, even more disturbing, we see who’s motiviating this man’s hate. – Anthony
Jo Nova writes:
Death threats anyone? Austrian Prof: global warming deniers should be sentenced to death
Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, reckons people like Watts, Tallbloke, Singer, Michaels, Monckton, McIntyre and me (there are too many to list) should be executed. He’s gone full barking mad, and though he says these are his “personal opinions” they are listed on his university web site.
For all the bleating of those who say they’ve had real “death threats“, we get discussions about executing skeptics from Professors, wielding the tyrannical power of the state. Was he paid by the state to write these simplistic, immature, “solutions”? Do taxpayers fund his web expenses? (And what the heck is systematic musicology?)
Here’s a quote from Parncutt:
“I have always been opposed to the death penalty in all cases…”
“Even mass murderers [like Breivik] should not be executed, in my opinion.”
“GW deniers fall into a completely different category from Behring Breivik. They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate.”
Read the whole story here at Jo Nova’s place: http://joannenova.com.au/2012/12/death-threats-anyone-austrian-prof-global-warming-deniers-should-be-sentenced-to-death/
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This is the ranting of a person who has become propagandized.
Reading Parncutt’s web page at the University of Graz it becomes clear where his delusions originate from. He names the websites “Skeptical Science” and DeSmog blog as his sources.
“For a reputable summary of arguments for and against GW, see skepticalscience.”
“Much more would have happened by now if not for the GW deniers. An amazing number of people still believe that GW is a story made up by scientists with ulterior motives. For a long list of climate change deniers and their stories see desmogblog.”
As his affirmed sources for his article calling for the death of climate skeptics, John Cook and Jim Hoggan now own this despicable ugliness. The question is: will they care? And will they condemn this or agree by their silence?
My guess is neither John Cook nor Jim Hoggan will have the moral integrity to condemn this man’s delusional hatred. I hope to be proven wrong.
Since his page will likely be modified or disappeared once University of Graz officials realize they have a rogue PR disaster on their hands, I’ve permanently archived the page here:
Richard Parncutt. Death penalty for global warming deniers?. University of Graz. 2012-12-24. URL: http://www.uni-graz.at/richard.parncutt/climatechange.html. Accessed: 2012-12-24. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6D8yy8NUJ)
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It’s even more bizarre.
Graz is the native town of former former Governor Schwarzennegger and they named their stadium after him. But in 2005 he refused to pardon a death row inmate and because of that they renamed it into “Stadion Graz-Liebenau”, now UPC-Arena.
WUWT is an open forum, with the lightest of moderation. Studied opinions are politely entertained here, as Prof. Jerome Ravitz can testify.
I’m sure Anthony and everyone else will agree that Prof. Richard Parncutt, and his acknowledged ethical co-adjudicator, Prof. John Sloboda, are welcome to come here and make their case in open debate.
Dr. Sloboda is an interesting case. He is an emeritus professor of Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK, where he researched psychology and music. He is also senior management of the Oxford Research Group, which bills itself as, “a leading independent think-tank that has been influential for 30 years in pioneering the idea of sustainable approaches to security as an alternative to violent global confrontation…” (my bold). The inadvertent irony is astonishing.
Do they have the courage to openly, freely, and rationally debate their convictions — here in public — with those they have convicted? I don’t doubt for a second that Anthony would give them a forum.
So, I invite their guest post on WUWT, am anxious to see them rationally defend their judgment, and very much look forward to the opportunity of a debate. I’m sure they’d be treated with respect on WUWT.
And if their inspirators, John Cook and the DeSmogBlog team, would like to join the fun and defend the Austrian death penalty, I’m equally sure they’d be welcome.
The ball is in their court. Do they have the courage to contest their convictions?
Nice fella, here he is in a published letter in the Guardina
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/nov/27/guardian-weekly-letters-30-november
To avoid the US fiscal cliff, the rich will have to pay more tax (16 November). The democratically elected US president has a mandate, but Congress, which is dominated by millionaires, will try to stop him. This is corruption at the highest level. Democracy? You must be joking. Off with their heads? Today, we prefer to avoid violence, although millions are dying of hunger and preventable disease worldwide, killed indirectly by the selfishness of rich politicians.
Richard Parncutt
Graz, Austria
Geoff Sherrington said:
“Please don’t rush to judgement. ”
Don’t judge the person, neither the people.
Richard Parncutt was borne in down under, look here: http://www.uni-graz.at/~parncutt/CVchronologic.html.
[that’s just not helpful to the discussion, maybe something similar with a lighter, perhaps humorous touch ~ctm]
What a wanker (scuse my French)! ‘They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate.’ How many people in the world die now, each year, because they do not have the basics for a decent life (energy, water, food, shelter, medicine)? China, India, Brazil, and then other developing countries, will continue to develop, and increase their use of fossil fuels, quite rightly, in order to lift their populations out of a poverty that kills hundreds of millions of real (not future) children and adults each year. Over twenty years ago, a Black American friend of mine gave me a quote from Julius Nyerere, the socialist president of Tanzania; I’ve tried to find an independent source for it, without success, so it may be apocryphal, or simply not recorded, but the idea is important anyway: ‘Yes, of course we should divide the cake equally; but the cake has to be big enough.’
The 49ers’ kicker got a death threat via Twitter because he’d missed some field goals. Fanatical idiocy! Richard Parncutt is in the same class as that fanatic: isn’t it a criminal offence to issue death threats?
Looks like someone’s taken the page down already. Screencap at:
http://wp.me/aJtnm-ZD
Yes, the page has gone. What is surprising is that it stayed there since at least 25 October 2012.
That’s two months before the University twigged to the nonsense he sprouts and decided to remove it.
Adam, Re: 404, I have an html format download of Richard Parncutt’s death penalty page, which I’d be happy to send to Anthony for archiving.
just sent the followin e-mail:
Dear Mr. Parncutt,
I believe that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proofs. I also belive that statistically insignificant trends do NOT represent extraordinary proofs, neither does research where the data is not made available for peer reviews, nor computer models that fail to predict reality.
I also belive that arguments based on correlation instead of proven causation and negative arguments of the type “we do not know what is causing this so it must be caused by that” are not extraordinary proofs.
Please let me know if this is enough in your view to have me killed, or should a few years in a reeducation camp be enough to cure me from beliving in the scientific method?
yours
Sandor Bende-Farkas
six sigma master black belt
This man is thankfully not a musician. I can’t imagine the dissonance he would be capable of, especially that of the cognitive variety. What a leech. The page is gone, thankfully, and viral through the wayback machine.
Aw shucks ctm. Just wanting to wish the Aussie bloke a merry Xmas.
Reply: Feel free to do so, I’m now signing off my guest appearance bye. Oh crap I forgot the new style rule until now ~mod
With just a very little re-education the man would fit very well into the BNP. This is a truly shcking story – and he clearly thinks he has reached a logical, well-reasoned position. Witch-hunts next?
Firstly, he is an Australian. How embarrassment for me and my nation.
I think this is his pitch to get his snout in the trough, must be more grants money available than there is for music studies.
Alex says:
December 24, 2012 at 12:08 am
Another indication that cagw is a religion. This is a call to kill the infidels.
http://youtu.be/-gZ6-6RbSEg
This is indeed very wrong. I just sent Mr Parncutt this reply by email:
Dear Mr Parncutt,
Please allow me to introduce myself.
My name is … … and I live in The Netherlands.
Today I found out that you want the death penalty for global warming deniers.
(http://www.uni-graz.at/richard.parncutt/climatechange.html which is now on a 404-error and not showing anymore)
I am a skeptic and in your words a global warming denier. The fact that you threathen people with death who disagree with your opinion is sinister and very wrong. You should reconsider your statement and plead for open debate in stead of killing your opponents.
In the meantime:
Would it come so far that you start your plan of killing people for their ideas, here is my adress:
… … …
… … …
The Netherlands
Please don’t shoot me in front of my son.
In case you have outsourced the killing, let me know where I may show up for transport to a death camp or a public execution. You do realize that I and other skeptics have kids too? And that we want the best for them in the future too?
Remember this: “When people stop talking, bodies are produced instead of words.”
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
… …
The Netherlands
(I have hidden my name and adress here, but not in the original email)
I would like to see him name just 10 people who have yet to be born who have been killed by “Influential GW Deniars”…
Show me the body…
Imbeciles like Parncutt are actually an asset to skeptics (but keep them away from sharp objects).
They demonstrate just how imbalanced their CAGW cult truly is, and erode the credibility of the global warming alarmist movement.
Some history on threats against skeptics:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/22/letters-i-get-letters/#more-59917
About a decade ago, I wrote an article in the National Post, saying that Canada should not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
I soon received an angry, threatening email from someone who held me personally responsible for the flooding of the City of Prague.
I replied:
Dear Sir, you are entirely correct.
I am the One fully responsible for the flooding of Prague.
Now “run along”, or I’ll do it again.
There’s (still) some more delusion at the bottom of his profile webpage.
“We need a global wealth tax!
Global warming is really happening. It is due to human activities, largely irreversible, and a massive threat to future generations (more). It could be stopped by programs financed by new global taxes on wealth, environmental damage and financial transactions. But the rich are hiding US$ 30 trillion in tax havens, and global warming deniers and media are distorting the facts, which is risking the lives of hundreds of millions. Not only that – fossil fuels are still being subsidized! If you are concerned, please either sign my petition or send me a suggestion for improving it. And sign up to 350.org.”
http://www.uni-graz.at/richard.parncutt/
Geoff Sherrington says:
December 24, 2012 at 12:46 am
Please don’t rush to judgement. You might be discussing a delightful person…..
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You are either very young or very sheltered. Either way you have not learned from history. These people are not playing games and we have had enough recent history to know if they grab power people DIE. Do I have to name the names of these ‘delightful people’?
Buggar……..one of ours. With the L, not without.
At least he’s a Victorian, not a West Australian.
I wonder if he’s a mate of Robyn Williams?
Emailed Prof Neuper, University rector. Parncutt should, in any decent world, be dismissed for gross misconduct for such absolute stupidity.
Death threats from an angry Austrian artist? …..that can safely be ignored…………or
A deranged opinion from an Austrian; does this ring a bell?
Merry Christmas to all!
Parncutt’s page has also been cached by Google in full
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni-graz.at%2Frichard.parncutt%2Fclimatechange.html
and text only
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=cache:http://www.uni-graz.at/richard.parncutt/climatechange.html
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The World Future Council page Establishing Crimes Against Future Generations
http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/fjcrimes.html
has been waybacked
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/fjcrimes.html
and has also been webcited here
http://www.webcitation.org/6D9Bgx1kO
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See also
http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/ecocide.html
which has been webcited here
http://www.webcitation.org/6D9C0Q94G
And
http://www.change.org/petitions/we-need-a-global-wealth-tax
This is a litmus test for every alarmist.
But I’m not going to comment further.
It’s Christmas and I’ve got other things to.
Again, Merry Christmas everyone
Don’t let $*&gh! idiots like this get you down.