[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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I can’t say much without it being snipped. What I will say is this: when they kick, kick back harder.
The good Herr Professor made me sick, but what seriously upset my stomach was the World Future Council site.
Ernest R. Hilgard was a famed experimental and theoretical psychology prof at Stanford who found that hypnotizability is more or less normally distributed. Thus, about 15% of the population is very suggestible. He worked with about 5,000 individuals and his findings were confirmed at Harvard with group testing, using recorded inductions and suggestions.
The more fanatic individuals in various political and social groups probably derive from this sub-population. For example, Pakistan madrasas produce a flow of suicidal Taliban from the highly suggestible fraction.
There is also an interesting phenomenon called ‘absorption’, which can be estimated by the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS). This has a modest (r=0.4) correlation to hypnotizability.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/TAS.htm
The questions have been removed from the net, but I read the page some time ago and found only one or two questions that applied to me. People with high TAS scores (average is 20 positive answers out of 34) are the artists and those who are highly influenced by music, plays, novels, TV….and propaganda.
This might sound somewhat obscure, but this blog, I speculate, is simply the refuge of persons who are not very suggestible. If you think this type of science is irrelevant to current affairs, google —
Obama NLP
If I’m just a little bit sceptical can I expect a short gaol term or maybe amputation of a limb or two, you know, to teach me a jolly good lesson and to deter others?
Why do you assume he is intelligent? I mean he teaches hula hoop twirling (or something equally important). It doesn’t take brains, just gall.
Here at random, check out the UCLA Musicology deptment faculty.
A bunch of diversity hires, several leavened with a love for Soviet marching songs, a few down with the struggle against “globalization” and capitalism. One, the head of the dept, hawking his musicological experience as a star witness for a fee at copyright infringement trials.
If you want to sue Huey Lewis, to get a fat royalty check of “Hip to be Square” because the song uses a Dorian Bass progression, just like your song from back in the Hit Parade, Professor Bob Fink is your guy!
Scumbags and frauds – everyone of them.
Richard Pancake Professor of Systematic Murder at the University of Graz has advocated the use of trains to transport realists to his camps for many years on the grounds that they are the most environmentally friendly mode of transport.
The concentration of the realists at various locations thoroughout the Austrian Reich ensures an efficient solution to the problem which can be executed sustainably with maximum recycling .
It does raise the question as to how cupable someone should be if they knowingly fabricate evidence that leads to the loss of life at a later date.
Geoff Sherrington says:
December 24, 2012 at 12:46 am
Please don’t rush to judgement. You might be discussing a delightful person, a cultured and considerate person whose mind has been filled with extreme views in which he believes honestly and deeply.
But but but… dear Geoff, a delightful, culture and considerate person who honestly and deeply advocates the mass execution of his opponents is not a delightful, cultured and considerate person. The moral quality of your beliefs (and actions) is not determined by how sincerely and deeply you hold them or how cultivated you are. Most war criminals are pretty sincere.
Makes me think back to the Greenpeace “We know where you live” comment, words fail me, this is fascism and it’s ugly. How can someone so intelligent be such a moron at the same time.
Sad day in the climate debate.
Being a music lover and record-collector, I have occasionally had contact with “musicologists”, and I must confess I always had a hard time taking them serious, even when they stuck to their area of expertise. I mean, anybody trying to “explain” what the anti-musical cacophony of a “work” by Schoenbearg or Stockhausen “means”, must be either pulling my leg or suffer from a pathological delusion. It has been the job of academic music and art experts for decades to defend the indefensible, namely that there is not a fundamental difference between geniuses like Bach and Da Vinci on one hand, and charlatans like John Cage and Jackson Pollock on the other. Exactly what we see in “climate science” now – these folks must feel ever so comfortable and at home among CAGW activists!
Geoff Sherrington
I agree this person should be ignored and hopefully he will go away. But I do think his employers should be informed about his extremist views.
Here is another Parncutt quote:
“Consider this: If ten million people are going to die with a probability of 10%, that is like one million people dying with a probability of 100%.”
I am nearing the point of losing all faith in academia.
There is an example of an adult apparently deranged by the fears he has acquired through the media and organisations such as the World Future Council. I say apparently because he may already have been unhinged and merely spotted the climate scare as an outlet for some self-expression. In either case, it is unsettling given the worldwide pushing of frightening stories about climate on to children, often accompanied by a clear attribution of blame to people in general and to their parents in particular. How many little potential Parncutts are being developed as a result? There is a big mess to be cleared up here, because this sort of indoctrination is going on even as the scientific case for acute alarm disintegrates still further, along with the moral and economic cases for ‘solutions’ being proposed by those claiming to be alarmed. My guess is that we have not seen the end of climate-related turpitude such as that displayed by Parncutt.
I wouldn’t have thought that sceptics made enough noise to warrant a sceptic slayer to come after them; especially not in the EU and Austria – where they are practically unnown.
Richard Parncutt
He advocates that the death penalty be applied to whom he terms “GW deniers”, as a preventative measure. He cites the figure of one billion deaths in the future, due to global warming, as the justification. He advocates that mass murders and serial killers be spared, but that “GW deniers” receive the death penalty. Anyone who has posted on “denier” blogs would come under scrutiny.
Did you catch that? “GW deniers”- that’s you. If you have disputed any of the science of the global warmers, or have disagreed with their intentions, you get gassed (the Nazis have shown the most efficient means for mass liquidations).
As inspiration for these thoughts, Parncutt cites the project *Establishing Crimes Against Future Generations* (linked) an initiative of the *World Future Council* (linked). The World Future Council consists of “50 personalities” with HQ in Hamburg, Germany. Their website also gives the “50 personalities” photos and c.v., and the same information on staff and management board.They do not look like the types who would liquidate hundreds of millions for argument’s sake, but one never knows with people whose self-appointed mission is to save the world from itself.
Interesting that a proposal that involves the liquidation of uncounted hundreds of millions throughout the world because of their beliefs should come from the city (Graz, Austria) that was home to the youthful Adolf Hitler. Parncutt is an Australian, another interesting co-incidence.
Some commentators have rightly raised the parallel with the adoption and spread of Nazism (which incidentally had its roots in the far left, not the far right). The fact that ostensibly intelligent people could hold such extreme views is a sad indictment of humanity.
What is often not discussed is how holding such views waters down the crimes of the like of Breivik, and how such appalling crimes, little by little fail to shock and fail to raise the condemnation that they deserve.
I have high confidence that those directly and indirectly effected by Breivik’s crimes do not remotely consider that so called AGW deniers fall in a worse catagory than the likes of Breivik.
I am all for free speech, and I hold the view that the professor can hold whatever views he likes. However, that said, I find his views utterly disgusting and the sooner the universtity distance themselves from this individual the better.
I went to desmogblog’s list of deniers and noticed I’m not listed there.
http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database
I may have to do something about it.
“And what the heck is systematic musicology?”
That’s what I’d like to know as well. Sounds like a true musicians worst nightmare.
So DeSmugBlog’s list of “deniers” is now a hit list?
Essentially the Professor has demanded that all of the folks on the list be judged worthy of death.
Surely a legal issue here somewhere….
“That would also make national debts illegal”
What, just like that??? He should try running this idea past the likes of Rothschild, JP Morgan & Goldman Sachs…
He’s not a professor, he’s a very naughty boy…
Alexander Feht says:
December 24, 2012 at 12:07 am
As a professional musician (pianist) myself, I thoroughly agree with you. The damage that the academic world has done to music in the last century is incalculable, mostly while pretending to be scientific.
As Thomas Beecham defined: “A musicologist is someone who can read music, but can’t hear it.”
Or perhaps: eunuchs in a harem.
The genocidal professor’s web page in question is already gone. Thank God the internet is forever.
I do wonder what it is about self-righteous Austrians and political mass murder?
thorsten says:
December 24, 2012 at 3:08 am
“… It has been the job of academic music and art experts for decades to defend the indefensible, namely that there is not a fundamental difference between geniuses like Bach and Da Vinci on one hand, and charlatans like John Cage and Jackson Pollock on the other. Exactly what we see in “climate science” now – these folks must feel ever so comfortable and at home among CAGW activists!”
Yes.
mm What comes to mind is the number of people who have been forced into fuel poverty by the green subsidies added to energy prices.. so they feel they cannot have the heating on on a winter’s day and subsequently die from the cold.. now, who are ultimately responsible for those policies?