Quote of the Week: the industry of denial

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Dr. David Deming in the Washington Times:

“With each passing year, it is becoming increasingly clear that global warming is not a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification, but a political ideology that has to be fiercely defended against any challenge. It is ironic that skeptics are called “deniers” when every fact that would tend to falsify global warming is immediately explained away by an industry of denial.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/23/the-real-deniers-of-climate-change/

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April 24, 2013 9:06 am

Will Nelson says: April 23, 2013 at 9:38 am ” … You might possibly have missed the delicious irony.”
No, actually I “got” the spectacular irony of the ‘industry of denial’ over 3 years ago, when I first started digging heavily into the accusation against skeptics to see exactly what its origins were and who was promulgating it. The accusation is seemingly just one of various hilarious examples of psychological projection we see coming from enviro-activists.

william matthews
April 24, 2013 3:50 pm

Come on now global warming is a bunch of hot air!
to think burning 12 million barreles of death a day on this little green ball has an efect nonsense

Roger Knights
April 24, 2013 5:59 pm

Query/Proposal:
I wish Ben Stein and his fine crew would produce another movie, this time, called: “Get Real” using thermometer temps., measured solar activity, and other hard data, using simply, powerfully, written dialogue to get truth in science to the public. (possibly, with a different celebrity, more popular with Gen X ers, perhaps, to do the narration and interviewing? Stein would be great for me, but I’m getting a little old…)
Could we get funding* from a charitable trust or foundation or other source to produce and
send a copy to every mailbox in the U.S. and Canada (at least – the entire civilized world would be my hope!)?
The event of mailing this DVD to so many people would, in itself, create a media event, providing further opportunities to tell the truth on TV and in other news media. Getting something in the mail, a rarity for many, these days, would, I think, make it more likely that the recipients would view the DVD. Plus, the REAL (verus virtual on internet) object would underscore the theme.

The absence of such funding, especially in the wake of the success of “The Global Warming Swindle,” is hard to account for if there is a well-organized, well-funded denial movement, as charged by alarmists. This was a point I made in my thread, “Notes from Skull Island, at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/

April 25, 2013 11:56 pm

Perfect statement. I like it.

jc
April 26, 2013 7:48 am

william matthews says:
April 24, 2013 at 3:50 pm
“…burning 12 million barreles of death…”
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Are you a student at Hansens School of Hysteria, Loony Bin Campus?
Do you cover the actual people killed by the Hansen Method of Policy Manipulation?