Krugman as usual, considers himself to be a judge of other people’s views, morals, and conscience.
I find the column title amusing.
Here’s what is so amusing and at the same time troubling about his column.
It makes me wonder if he in fact believes in the soul and the afterlife, rather than Dawkin’s thesis that God is dead which seems to be popular with the left.
After reading Willis Eschenbach’s excellent essay on how global warming alarmism and policy hurts the poor the most, watching Dr. Matt Ridley’s uplifting video on how CO2 is helping to green the planet, seeing Steve McIntyre point out that the latest Marcott hockey stick appears to be either a statistical fabrication or unrealistic data error, and noting Dr. Savory’s simple solution for rolling back how desertifcaton leads to climate change, and knowing that Paul Krugman wouldn’t see any of this as rational skepticsim, but would instead label it a sin, while promoting policies that hamper our economy and personal freedom, weaken our defense, hurt the poor, and won’t make any measurable difference to the outcome, my response becomes quite simple.
Dear Paul Krugman,
I’ll see you in hell.
Sincerely,
Anthony Watts
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A couple of years ago I read online somewhere that “everybody knows” that Krugman’s NYT columns are written by his wife.
or:
My ego’s twice the normal size.
or:
I’ll see the truth when pigs can fly.
or to bring it ’round to Krugman’s original statement:
…You’re a deceiver and you’ll fry.
Mr. Krugman is criminally incompetent at best as an economist. As commentary on climate science he is a vapid breeze in the branches of a vast willow tree of buffoons…
Well said Anthony, but I hope you never have to see that clown anywhere especially not in hell.
KevinK says (March 15, 2013 at 6:01 pm): ‘Perhaps it’s time to allow a few of those “cranks” to make their case that the “greenhouse effect” has been mischaracterized and it in fact has no effect on the average temperature of the Earth ?’
Been there, done that. For a recent example, check the very long comment thread to this article:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/06/the-r-w-wood-experiment/
Enjoy.
Don says (March 15, 2013 at 8:39 pm): “or: I’ll see the truth when pigs can fly.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-airlines-must-let-passengers-fly-pigs-emotional-support
or:
I backed Enron on the sly.
Krugman’s fundamental error is his leap from “This has bad side effects” to “This must be banned.”
He acknowledges that mitigating alternatives like trains reduce the problem, but his preferred approach is to ban it completely. He doesn’t seem to consider that the ban he would impose is a negative externality upon the users that is far greater than the one he seeks to solve.
Nowhere does he consider alternatives such as more roads, work from home, flexitime, etc. which will leave those who want to drive at that time free to drive.
I understand the temptation of his thinking, of course. If I were like Krugman, I’d think the solution to his verbal pollution is to ban it outright.
Hans Erren says:
March 15, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Anthony,
“Hell” is actually a small village near Trondheim Airport in Norway, It freezes over every year.
I laughed when I read this! I’ve been to Hell! And back! For real, in 1991! If I remember right there was a sign on the train station that read “Gods Ekspedisjon”. Really! (If you know a little Norwegian you’ll know the message has nothing to do with religion) Anyway, still laughing….
Solutions are not what Krugman wants. No, Krugman is only interested in slavery to Big Government for all of us. He’s an acolyte of BG and gets paid accordingly. That’s why he’s self-righteous, pompous, deceitful, and devoid of truth. He’ll do anything and everything his masters ask.
He’s basically sold his soul for a mess of pottage.
Schwartz is ignorant of the fact that his country, Spain, gave up its sovereign currency for a foreign currency, the Euro. What the hell does he expect? He’s a g.d. slave to the EU now, a union of unelected officials without a governing body that can set fiscal policy.
3×2, you don’t understand our monetary system. We are sovereign. This fiction that we can go broke is tantamount to the global warming scaremongering. Educate yourself by investigating.
“Dear Paul Krugman,
I’ll see you in hell.”
No you won’t – you won’t be going there! 😉
I think he forgot a hyphen in the title:
The Con-Science of a Liberal.
I see Krugman knows as little about climatology as he does about economics, and even less about morality than his combined understanding of economics and climatology.
Don’t you just love the arrogance, elitism, gall and condescension of Liberals?
It’s only surpassed by what i call, leftist irony.
Krugman should be damned glad that Willis never had his fancy caught by . . .
Post WWII – “The Dismal Science”, During Obama – “The Black Hole Science”, Post Obama – “The Extinction Event Science”
You need to do your homework. The problem is that Krugman hasn’t gone for enough. You don’t know zip about the economy, so quit repeating Sean Hannity nonsense. Check out neweconomicperspectives.org.
Krugman knows ZERO about the climate. He’s using an operating metaphor that’s false. His knowledge about economics is a moving target.
Oh Well. I’m sorry Anthony’s hearing Issues probably preclude appreciating the foreboding, heavy, low scale Piano Intro to this: Dum – Dah, Dah Dum Dum
Ballad of a Thin Mann
You walk into the room
With your Dataset in your hand
You see somebody measuring
And you say, “Who is that man ?”
You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what they’ll say
When you get published.
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
You raise up your head
And you say, “CO2’s gonna Kill”
And somebody points to you and says
“It Will?”
And you say, “Here’s A Hockey Stick ”
And somebody else says, “You’re Sick”
And you say, “Oh my God
Am I here all alone ?”
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
You Cash in your Paycheck
And you go watch the geek
Who immediately walks up to you
When he hears you speak
And says, “How does it feel
To be such a freak ?”
And you say, “Mr Vice President?”
As he hands you a Grant.
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
You have many contacts
Among the Tree-Ring- Jacks
Who make up facts
When someone attacks your imagination
But nobody has any respect
Anyway they already expect
You To all give a check
To Climate-Model-Inventing Organizations.
You’ve been with the PHD’s
And they’ve all liked your looks
With great Alarmists you have
Discussed Deniers and Crooks
You’ve been through all of
AL Gore’s books
You’re not all that well read,
It’s well known.
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
Well, the Bullshit-Finders, they come up to you
And then they kneel
One is named Willis
Their Minds are like Steel
And without further notice
They ask you how it feels
And say, “Here are your errors back,
Thanks for the loan”.
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
Now you see this one-Eared Blogger
Shouting the word “What?”
And you say, “For what reason ?”
And he says, “Your Method Sucks”
And you say, “What does this mean ?”
And he screams back, “Show Your Stuff
Give me some proofs
Or else go home”.
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
Well, you walk into the room
Like a Big-Shot and then you frown
You put your Hockey Stick in your pocket
And your Equations on the ground
There ought to be a law
Against you comin’ around
You should be made
To learn Classical Science Method.
Because something’s not happening here
And you really wish it was
Don’t you, Mister Mann ?
Mr Krugman seems to lack a sense of proportion.
What I mean is that, if denial of global warming is an almost inconceivable sin, then how would Mr. Krugman classify, say Stalin’s purges, Mao’s millions of dead, Pol Pot and the killing fields of Cambodia, or the reign of terror of Idi Amin, Vlad the Impaler, or, of course, the Holocaust?
The list of inhuman acts done by humans to other humans in the name of whatever the current “-‘ism” is, is so long and so terrible that it makes Mr. Krugman’s assertion of “sin” pale to an insignificant act [even if it were true].
Sheesh!
Apologies to the Gentleman from Hibbing, Minn., Bob Dylan; ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’.
F Ross: “What I mean is that, if denial of global warming is an almost inconceivable sin, . .”
It is, when you’re Hysterical.. . . . . BTW, Where’s Bill Mckibben? Saw him earlier.
@ur momisuglyZT:
Economics is a very diverse field. Part “hard science” ( the folks doing things like econometrics are at least trying to get to a data driven perspective) and part “modern art” (especially the folks from the Krugman camp who think they can water color the economy to any state they wish). In between there is a very large body of very well proven descriptive science. Things like “elasticity of demand” that defines and measures an effect on demand from changing a related variable, such as price. Very simple. Very clear. Very well proven and even measured.
Sadly, the field also, by definition, encompasses Marxist Communism (as it is an economic system, just a lousy one) and various Socialist Economic Systems (including Lange Type Market Socialism that is the best fit for the United States as of Obama – complete with the hallmark “avoidance of bankruptcy” and turning major enterprises over the the workers as in GM where bondholders got their rights shafted while labor unions got ownership shares and government partial nationalization was used. All defining features of that type.) So we have to learn both the capitalist and the socialist / communist systems / methods or theories.
My degree is in Econ, so I can claim to be an economist. I had to learn both free market capitalism (that doesn’t exist in the world) and communism. Along with the Mixed Economy which is what we have now. ( a half way house of sorts between those two).
So when dealing with the opinion of “An Economist”, you first need to ask: “What type?”. As they can legitimately be anywhere on the spectrum from Full Libertarian Free Market, to Chicago School to Hayek and the Austrians to Samuelson Mixed Economy, and Lange Type Socialist and on to full blown State Marxist Capitalist. All of them are Economists. And, as folks in the USSR did make and distribute stuff they had an economy. (Basically, economics asks and tries to describe / answer “Who makes what for whom?”. If you are doing that, it is an economy. It can be a ‘command economy’ aka communism or a market economy or several other types.)
So since partly it is descriptive of what is done, it must be able to describe what is done in bad systems as much as in good ones. Just like botanists describe species that failed and are extinct or not doing very well. Some even love various pest species. That doesn’t mean botany is not a science…
So please, do not denigrate economics for having socialists and communists in it, trying to describe their bad systems. It’s just part of the job. But do denigrate the economists who can’t tell that they are bad systems…
(BTW, market economics has a lot of fleas too… a couple of years of classes worth… )
@ur momisugly policycritic says:
March 15, 2013 at 11:14 pm (Edit)
Sirah, I am an economist and IMHO Mr. Krugman is sadly afflicted with broken ideas about economic systems, seriously out of touch with reality of how they function, clueless about markets and real competition, and nearly criminally incompetent in many areas at best as an economist. I have done my homework (many years of it to bag the sheepskin), and have no idea what Sean Hannity has to say on the issue (as he’s not as cute as the lady on the the Business Channel opposite his time slot 😉 In short, I do know about the economy (rather more than most folks will tolerate my “sharing”) and the recommendations of Mr. Krugman are lethal to economic growth, recovery, and stability. They are fun economic theories and fantasies, but disconnected from the real economy.
Oh and “new monetary theory” that you can print your way to prosperity and sovereign debt doesn’t matter is just a load of speculative crap that has repeatedly failed. See Greece for one example. Spain for another. Argentina several times in the last 50 years. Zimbabwe. Germany during hyperinflation. Oh heck, just pick one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hanke_Krus_Hyperinflation_Table.pdf
I think we’ve tested those theories quite enough to have a reliable answer…
so somebody who believes there is an afterlife, worships at the Church of cAGW – no surprise there >;-)~