[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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Anthony;
Have you considered sending him a calendar?
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On second thought, maybe not. This lunatic is even closer to the edge than Mann.
Alan Watt, CD (Certified Denialist), Level 7 says:
December 24, 2012 at 9:34 am
….I’ll see your Florence Foster Jenkins and raise you one William McGonagall, the worst poet in the history of the English language…..
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Careful now my husband is a poet. Luckily he is much better than McGonagall just ask him.
It’s funny that he mentions Breivik, because in many ways he IS Breivik. Open-minded people that they imagine are a danger to their ideal society must die. Fortunately the Professor has not picked up a machine gun to carry out the sentence.
Gail Combs says:
December 24, 2012 at 4:57 am
J Cooper says:
December 24, 2012 at 3:11 am
Geoff Sherrington
I agree this person should be ignored and hopefully he will go away….
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If he was isolated madman chance met like a similar guy I ran across in Cambridge MA. then I would agree with you but he is not. He is a Professor and a well known one in his field. This type of mania HAS TO BE CALLED OUT NOW.
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How very right Gail – my underlying above. This is not to be ignored, “hopefully he will go away”. Utter nonsense. Such behaviour should be sharply condemned. It is death threats, the same as in the 10:10 video but now it shows it was not “just fun”, but seriously meant death threats.
As Code Tech said above:
CodeTech says:
December 23, 2012 at 11:23 pm
I would say it was unbelievable, but it’s completely par. Those who don’t SAY this are actually thinking it. The thought, the very idea, that they might be wrong, or their assessment could be in error, never even seriously enters their heads. It jars them that others find their conclusions to be wrong. I’m certain that AGW believers are as convinced of their rightness as ANY religious fanatic.
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(For anyone keeping track, YES I’ve referenced both religion and Nazism in the same post, and YES I believe AGW believers and crusaders are completely identical in mindset, and will have equally or greater destructive results to civilization)
yes, I have the feeling that this is the mind set of several warmista, and yes, I have the feeling we are facing the birth of a new religion.
For times it was difficult for me to understand the times of Hypatia and how could people behave like they did at the time. Only now watching the Global Warming Alarmists at work I started to understand.
Gail Combs says:
December 24, 2012 at 8:28 am
Oh dear. I might have heard her before, but repressed the memory. The cat images and comments were well choosen. 🙂
Alexander Feht – here’s one you may “enjoy” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGElIOB9tc – Direct transfer from original Melotone recording studio “Your Portrailt in Sound” on 78 rpm shellac. The hand typed record label says
" Biassy " Words by Pushkin Melodie-Song:Count A. Pavlovich Based on Bach-Prelude XVI sung by FLORENCE FOSTEER JENKINS Cosme McMoon,Piano. I dare say Pushkin never sounded like that before. :-) One of the commenters said "I just gnawed my own ears off."Gail Combs says:
December 24, 2012 at 8:28 am
Nah, Sentence him to listening to the complete works of Florence Foster Jenkins at 80 dba over and over and over…
Good heavens, this is WMD grade!
[Weapons of Music Destruction? Mod]
This type of rationale (and being called a denier) always make me think of the last time a major scientific theory gained world-wide political acclaim – Eugenics.
And coincidentally, that was also taken up by a little Austrian man – called Hitler
Eugenics was not restricted to Nazi Germany, and indeed was practiced in most Countries of the world to some degree or other. But it is was swiss advocate Ernst Rüdin who wrote the official commentary for the racial policy of Nazi Germany: “Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring”; and was awarded medals from the Nazis and Adolf Hitler personally
Quotes:
Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%BCdin
Andi
PS – It’s Christmas Day here in NZ – Season’s Greetings to one and all – Warmist and Skeptic alike
Posted in tips and notes, but, better here:
More on Parncutt – http://www.uni-graz.at/richard.parncutt/
The guy could be said to be certifiably insane …he is proposing a death penalty on something which has a probability of happening, to be applied to people who have a probability of causing deaths….. !!!!
If there is any probability of global cooling, or of no global warming occurring, or of humans turning out to be a minor contributor to said global warming, do we at least have the right to sentence Parncutt to a precautionary whipping? If so, lets check the statistics and carry it out as soon as possible!
Parncutt: “…GW is different. With high probability it will cause hundreds of millions of deaths. For this reason I propose that the death penalty is appropriate for influential GW deniers. More generally, I propose that we limit the death penalty to people whose actions will with a high probability cause millions of future deaths..”
Horrifying is the only description I can come up with. Saved the page, as a reminder of the extent of the sheer viciousness and hatred existing in the Warmist cult. I do not see this merely as the sickness of one individual, just one extreme example of the way they “think”.
One chilling sentence (among many) is: “I wish to claim that it is generally ok to kill someone in order to save one million people”. That could be seen as a call for anyone willing to do so to assassinate anyone on “the list”.
Then there is this: if a jury of suitably qualified scientists estimated that a given GW denier had already, with high probability (say 95%), caused the deaths of over one million future people, then s/he would be sentenced to death. The sentence would then be commuted to life imprisonment if the accused admitted their mistake, demonstrated genuine regret, AND participated significantly and positively over a long period in programs to reduce the effects of GW (from jail) – using much the same means that were previously used to spread the message of denial. At the end of that process, some GW deniers would never admit their mistake and as a result they would be executed. Perhaps that would be the only way to stop the rest of them. The death penalty would have been justified in terms of the enormous numbers of saved future lives.
So, only if you don’t repent your “climate sins” and participate in CAGW-approved “programs” will you be executed. If you do, then you will be allowed to spend the rest of your life in jail. What a relief. Whew! We can all rest easy now.
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
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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…
Neither would have any effect. Remember he’s a musicologist.
“Alan Watt, CD (Certified Denialist), Level 7 says:
December 24, 2012 at 9:34 am
…I’ll see your Florence Foster Jenkins and raise you one William McGonagall, the worst poet in the history of the English language. ”
pffft..
According to the latest comment at JoNova, the good Professor was lining himself up for two years time:
http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10002296
http://legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/15709
Mark Bofill says: December 24, 2012 at 9:46 am
[…]
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?
Yes, but… wouldn’t it all become so much simpler, argument-wise? Hm 8-?
Anyway,
“Jason says:
December 24, 2012 at 3:11 am
I am nearing the point of losing all faith in academia.”
Disheartening, isn’t it? These are the people we turn young minds over to for instruction. We’re pretty much hosed.
Oh, just one more:
And now, have a nice Christmas, everyboby.
” henrythethird says: December 24, 2012 at 12:03 am
Just think how many millions of “future people” we’d have now if there hadn’t been a forced removal of 5 – 6 million European Jews in 1945. ”
It was actually 11 million non-combatant civilians murdered by the Nazis and 10% were babies and small children. That is a quote from Simon Wiesenthal. He was adamant on that point the the numbers be stated fully and not just isolated to one group. The Jews did not make up half the population but the did make up half the dead so they were singled out. When you realize the plan was simply to kill everyone who disagreed, including their own citizens, it gets very scary for those on all sides.
Check out “General Plan East” sometime for a scary read. Eliminate 90% of all the Poles & Slavs keeping only 10% illiterate peasants to produce food for the fatherland.
If you want to see how normal and educated people can fall for this genocidal nonsense give Albert Speer’s book “Inside the Third Reich” a read.
To the prof I can only say your turn will come and it will come from those you have backed and supported. Just look at what they did to the soldiers doing the killings when an area was declared “jew free”. Sent to die on the Yugoslav and Russian fronts.
Too funny! I was going to the university’s web page to demand a certain prof be fired for his genocidal comments and this popped up from my company’s filter:
URL: GET http://www.uni-graz.at/
Category: Education
Reason: BLOCK-MALWARE
Threat Type: othermalware
Threat Reason: Domain reported and verified as serving malware.
Well I guess any place that would hire the insane prof could be a source of more than just hate filled rantings.
John says on December 23, 2012 at 11:04 pm:
“If Herr Parncutt is serious, it helps explain how otherwise intelligent people embraced mass murdering ideologies like Communism and Nazism.”
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Dear John, read your history (or maybe the books I read 55 years ago have been burnt – in which case that (my request) is ,of course, impossible – Millions of people looked upon “Communism and Nazism” in the same way they now look at “Social Democrat(ism)”.
I grew up in a European country (not Germany) where Nazism was seen as the “in thing” until Hitler wanted to take over the reins of that particular country, or indeed everywhere outside of Germany. Remember “The Volks-Wagen (VW) or “Peoples Car”” – And the Autobahn to drive it on. – Also remember the “Arbeit macht Frei” saying. – It has become a symbol of the Concentration – or death – Camps but it was the “war-cry” that brought Germany out of the 1930’s world recession.
In those days German scientists “proved beyond doubt” that the Germanic race, and therefore also the German people were direct descendants from the Arian race – which apparently was a perfect one. – So for social democrats to use scientists as a tool is not a new idea. – Nor is it a new idea for them to make exceptional death-camps for certain people, i.e. people who do not tow the line are “in for it”.
That’s my rant for today.
There comes a point where one sees the gauntlet that has been thrown, and utters “touche!”
Do they realize where this will lead, if such strident positioning continues?
How did a fruitcake like him get to be a professor in the first place? Blaming the Pope for the spread of AIDS is like blaming glasses for alcoholism or gasoline stations for auto accidents. (The Catholic church advocates monogamous relationships. Last I heard that stops HIV and every other STD dead in its tracks Mr. Graz…. )
Such wonderful gentle and caring people these progressives are, morally and mentally superior to EVERYONE.
Being the light of the world is a difficult burden to carry.
Code Monkey Wrench says:
December 24, 2012 at 10:48 am
“Jason says:
December 24, 2012 at 3:11 am
I am nearing the point of losing all faith in academia.”
Disheartening, isn’t it? These are the people we turn young minds over to for instruction. We’re pretty much hosed.
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Darn good reason to home school. Homeschooling Sees Dramatic Rise in Popularity
One of the churches near me permits home schoolers the use of the church building. It has turned into sort of a parent-run school providing socialization and specialized training a single parent can not.
Well it answers one question.
We now know who Peter Sellers based Doctor Strangelove on!
I blame Anthony, I told him sending that bloody calendar to the wrong loony tune would cause trouble!
Ric Werme,
That Florence Foster Jenkins recording is something. I couldn’t understand a word. What language is she using? This is certainly not Russian. Bach’s material is limited to interludes, it seems. While the singing goes on, piano churns out some imbecilic kindergarten stuff. Ms. Jenkins seems to be not only voiceless but tone-deaf to boot. A rarity, a conversation piece! I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you.