[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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Looking into my copy of the works of Parncutt, I find
That gives me relief because it means that Parncutt is a renegade, not a warmist commando. The vatican is as we know the biggest landowner on the planet and therefore profits mightily from Kyoto credits and wind turbine subsidies and is and has been ultra-warmist for this reason.
This just seems to be the case of a guy who has snapped. Not a professional ethicist even though he sounds like one.
Parncutt looks and thinks a lot like this guy:
http://www.diasdehistoria.com.ar/userfiles/image/Himmler-vivo.jpg
I sent him an email:
Dear Mr Would Be Mass Murderer,
You said: “People will be saying that Parncutt has finally lost it.” Yes you have.
You also said:” People would say I was courageous to write the truth, for a change” For a change? Does that mean you do NOT more than often?
I am an Australian, I take it as you were born in Australia and that you are still an Australian?. If so, renounce your nationality as you are not a fit and proper person to be Australian.
People like you are sick. You need help fast. Kari Norgaard can help you find treatment as she like you is an expert.
J Frodsham
Lock him up. The sooner the better. No trial necessary for the insane, just commitment papers and an order from a judge.
I would suggest that this chap has had a nervous breakdown.
That said allowing him to keep this post up on his university blog site is criminal. The university must surely be held accountable.
I am curious how the extreme AGW paradigm pushers and the media would response to a significant drop in planetary temperature. Solar cycle 24 appears to be heading towards a Maunder minimum.
http://www.solen.info/solar/
http://www.solen.info/solar/images/comparison_recent_cycles.png
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20835062
23 December 2012 Last updated at 20:20 ET Help
Cold weather is continuing to take its toll in Ukraine, where authorities say dozens of people have died in a month of freezing temperatures. There has been record snowfall in some parts of the country, and there are warnings that temperatures could drop even further.
William:
“Volcanic eruptions and solar activity” by Richard Stothers
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989JGR….9417371S
The historical record of large volcanic eruptions from 1500 to 1980 is subjected to detailed time series analysis. In two weak but probably statistically significant periodicities of about 11 and 80 yr, the frequency of volcanic eruptions increases (decreases) slightly around the times of solar minimum (maximum). Time series analysis of the volcanogenic acidities in a deep ice core from Greenland reveals several very long periods ranging from about 80 to about 350 yr which are similar to the very slow solar cycles previously detected in auroral and C-14 records. Solar flares may cause changes in atmospheric circulation patterns that abruptly alter the earth’s spin. The resulting jolt probably triggers small earthquakes which affect volcanism. (My comment. This mechanism guess is not correct.)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002AGUFMPP61A0298A
The Role of Explosive Volcanism During the Cool Maunder Minimum
The Dalton Minimum was a period of low solar activity, named for the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830.[1] Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Dalton Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. The Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2.0° C decline over 20 years.[2] The Year Without a Summer, in 1816, also occurred during the Dalton Minimum. The precise cause of the lower-than-average temperatures during this period is not well understood. Recent papers have suggested that a rise in volcanism was largely responsible for the cooling trend.[3]
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/17/6341.full#otherarticles
Chile Volcano erupts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20835029
Ecuador Volcano erupts
http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-volcano-blasts-more-hot-rock-crater-174613809.html
Good grief. As the late Jerry Williams (the self-proclaimed Dean of Talk Radio) used to say, “They’re out there!”
And they are. Now the the re-election of George Soros’s Puppet President, the fertilizing dollars from the US Treasury will encourage stimulate the emergence of True Believers in socialist Global Governance all over the world. True Believers (viz. Eric Hoffer) love ‘final solutions’ for their enemies.
In a sane world, this Parncutt would be an anomaly. But it’s not a sane world.
“Merry Christmas. We must be having one.” —Tammy Wynette
/Mr Lynn
Totalitarianism sneaks up on societies. If you talk to people who were in a country that was overtaken by totalitarianism, they will all tell you the same thing: no one knew what was really happening until it was too late. The totalitarians rarely declare their intentions. Rather they find a noble cause and exploit it. In Germany in the 30s the noble cause was genetic purity. Today, its Global Warming. The noble cause becomes the vehicle to achieve political power. And convenient idiots like Parncutt become the storm troopers — convinced that they are on the side of good while they march people off to the gas chambers.
The only way to fight against this is to expose it for what it is.
Ric Werme says:
December 24, 2012 at 5:50 am
If he kills me, I’ll have my estate make him listen to the Portsmouth Sinfonia’s rendering of the Nutcracker’s Dance of the Brandied Sugar Plum Fairy
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Nah, Sentence him to listening to the complete works of Florence Foster Jenkins at 80 dba over and over and over…
Quoth Richard Parncutt at his website (now disappeared)
“the Pope and perhaps some of his closest advisers should be sentenced to death”
The Pope is only individual that he names specifically as deserving of the death penalty. He cites “deniers” as deserving of that, but gives no specific names from this group. Austria is almost 100% Catholic, so perhaps someone should report this to the Austrian media. Make sure that they understand that the original website is preserved here at WUWT. Also Italy, South Germany, Spain, etc. and let’s not forget the source of his inspiration : the World Future Council. A big opportunity beckoning here.
Chuck Nolan says:
December 24, 2012 at 6:27 am
Now this is where gun control comes in to play….
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Yes knowing you may be facing a gun if you go after someone has a chilling effect on such hotheads as Australia is finding out the hard way.
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SInce the gun ban in Australia state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%…….
The same sort of statistics are seen in Switzerland.
Move over Austrian painters…I’ve often said you can take any group of 10,000 people or more around the world, and, given the right circumstances, fascism will rise. When I look around my own community and try and figure out who the fascists would be in such a scenario, I invariably land on a small group of extreme environmentalists.
They alone are the ones who appear to be ready to do anything to support their cause – lie, cheat, defame, damage, ostracize, bully, threaten, brainwash children and obfuscate the truth – nothing is below achieving their goals. They aren’t known for enjoying comedy. They are primarily dour, doubting and “cup half empty” people. And, they are the greatest hypocrites on the planet. I have never once heard an apology from any of them for their mistakes, for, they are entirely unapologetic.
David Suzuki, who called for the imprisonment of climate change deniers a few years ago, is their patron saint.
If you haven’t already, check out Ms. Elizabeth Nickson’s brilliant exposure of Eco-Fascists http://elizabethnickson.com/
One can only look forward to a brighter future as such cold ignorance is melted away in the light of knowledge and understanding.
Wishing everyone a brighter New Year!
I think I have the basis for a new research project – subject to the necessary grants, naturally. There seem to be increasing numbers of incidents of threats of violence, and at increasing levels of severity, these exponentially proportional to the number of years without significant global warming. I’m not a PhD, but I’m certain to be able to cook something up which will convince any body with as much combined intelligence as the IPCC.
It is not the professor so much as the pseudo or cult religious group he is apparently associated with. I guess us climate atheists need to run and hide or risk being shot by a stray C sharp! More PR grabbing nonsense and look at how much they are getting. Ignore the lot. Question, is this any difference then some religious fanatic issuing any kind of fanatical anything?
So a music prof is expert in climate science now?
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.”
— C.S. Lewis
arthur4563 says: December 24, 2012 at 6:13 am
Well, we can at least confidently assume that “systematic musicology” has nothing to do with either logic or science, or ethics or morality.
Precisely. It seems to be post-mortem. Oops, post-modern.
Trying not to hog the comments section.
If a person publicly advocates violence against an individual or a group that is a HATE CRIME.
This matter been reported.
No difference between Politically ,Religious ,Racially or Homophobic Motivated .
Bill says: December 24, 2012 at 6:47 am Toward the bottom, he has his 3 rules. He wants to prosecute people on the basis of future effects. Hmmmm, all you need is to be able to predict the future for this to work. That’s what we have climate models for I guess.
Precogs also work (most of the time?). Ref.: Minority Report.
Gail Combs says:
December 24, 2012 at 8:28 am
Ric Werme says:
December 24, 2012 at 5:50 am
If he kills me, I’ll have my estate make him listen to the Portsmouth Sinfonia’s rendering of the Nutcracker’s Dance of the Brandied Sugar Plum Fairy
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Nah, Sentence him to listening to the complete works of Florence Foster Jenkins at 80 dba over and over and over…
I’ll see your Florence Foster Jenkins and raise you one William McGonagall, the worst poet in the history of the English language. See here and here . For a sample:
Readings of McGonagall poems have become a staple of our Burn’s Night gatherings.
phlogiston says: December 24, 2012 at 7:12 am Parncnutt is an anagram of
PRAT ‘n C**T
There’s no need for extra letters. Part C***, Parc N*tt.
There was once a chap with a short mustache who tried his hand at painting, was an animal lover, a proponent for the environment and was also a vegetarian.
I’ll let your guys and gals figure out this ‘delightful’ personality from the past. :>(
This is just the beginning, as the faith falls,
first the zealots strike out against the messengers,
second they strike in against their (now)fallen high priests,
third they self destruct in messy ways.
Same old movie, different song. Keep your firing lines open and ammo dry, this storm will also pass.
There will be some danger for the easily targeted sceptic, but it should be brief, as stage 2 sets in quickly.
Achmed the dead terrorist for sure.
Collapse of this scam is accelerating, I love it.
Merry Christmas to all, especially the humourless and paranoid experts.
Remedy for this madness? Compulsory watching ‘The Ice Caps Are Melting” for hours?
With date of production constantly flashing across screen.
These phycologists will be suing Tiny Tim’s estate for permanently damaging their childhood mind, poisoning their mindset and causing their obsession with the ice caps.
The’ Look what you made me do” defence?
Anthony;
Have you considered sending him a calendar?
It irritates me when people call for my death because of my beliefs.
I don’t know if it’s just arrogant stupidity that people do this, or
if it’s that they think to frighten me. Maybe it should frighten me.
Fool that I am, it just pisses me off. Maybe that’s the real goal.
I shouldn’t be astonished anymore that such ‘enlightened’ men put forward
such vicious crap, although I admit I still am. I’ve no clue what Professors
of Systematic Musicology study, but it sounds like it should involve more
literature and philosophy than my technical field. So why does it fall to
a software guy from Alabama to point out the obvious?
Professor Parncutt, let’s say you are absolutely correct for the sake of argument.
Let’s suppose that forward thinking people agree with you and threaten these
‘GW deniers’ and successfully get the majority of them to recant their heresy.
What happens next time there is a complicated scientific disagreement? I’m
a simple guy, so pardon me for harping on the obvious, but in taking this single
expedient step to solve a single problem quickly and easily, haven’t you completely
destroyed the civilized protections that facilitate creative thinking and
scientific, civil, and artistic progress? Worse, haven’t you darkened the world
and the lives of all in it by giving rise to a reign of terror, where all people
must henceforth live in fear of expressing ideas which, in your enlightened opinion,
are incorrect and should never be expressed under pain of death? Even if we give
you that your intellect far surpasses all others and you are always right, isn’t
it evident that you’re advocating a totalitarian and hellish world?
So, if we suppose your original premise is valid and that bloggers should
be held accountable for the actions of those who read their blogs, don’t
you think it behooves you to consider the consequences a little more
thoroughly before you blithely call for the arbitrary death or imprisonment
of anyone who disagrees with you? What penalties do you propose for yourself
in this matter?
~shrug~
Merry Christmas Eve.