While Andrew Dessler suggests Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. can resign the AGU (for having a minority viewpoint on their recent policy update),
Ross McKittrick leaves this comment at Bishop Hill:
Here’s the list of scientific institutions and societies that have issued statements agreeing with CAGW, and that surveyed their members to find out how many agreed with the statement prior to issuing it, and published the results of the survey:
Anyone want to see the list again?
Aug 12, 2013 at 12:50 AM |Ross McKitrick
Consensus.. Just the notion of this applied to science is unsettling. Granted I do know this is a contrivance of the political side and anyone with half a brain and a thimble full of curiosity can see the “BS” for what it is. But it would seem we live in a world of lemmings who find it easier to follow the idiot in front of them right off the cliff,
Whenever I see that word it reminds me of this consensus:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/560859/spontaneous-generation .
Shame that after all these many years people have not changed that much.
Barry Cullen:
You conclude your post at August 13, 2013 at 9:00 am
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/12/quote-of-the-week-the-ayes-have-it/#comment-1388531
by saying to Tim Groves
But your post suggests calling a spade a porcupine.
Richard
@Tim Groves –
Let me elaborate on your Churchill a little, with this paraphrase:
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our country, to ride out the storm of global warming alarmism, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of our people – every man and woman of them. That is the will of the nation.
Our diverse peoples, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of the nation and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the new Fuehrer and all the odious apparatus of his rule, we shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight on land,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our liberty, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, a large part of our country were subjugated and starving, then our common people, armed and guarded by our loyal military, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, our loyal military, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the land from the enemy.
Am I declaring war on global warming alarmism? You bet.
This is ABOUT terror. It was a terror campaign when Al Gore said we had to install his energy and environmental policies or fear for our lives.
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Txomin says:
August 12, 2013 at 5:19 pm
“…surveyed their members…”
I have wondered about that modus operandi before. It is strange considering the official line of absolute confidence in a scientific consensus. Do they naively assume agreement among members or are they simply terrorized by any form of disagreement? Also, every single scientific institution and society with AGW agenda all acting alike? It’s not just peculiar, it’s bizarre.
It’s about terror for being made a public spectacle on the internet by people claiming magic gas turned the gases that act as atmospheric refrigerants into heaters. The infrared resonant gases’ main component by far is water and water is the phase change refrigerant that refrigerates, the atmosphere. There’s no such thing as the “heating component” to the calculations for a phase change refrigerant, it’s a scam a sham and always was one, and anyone who has any scientific education at all knows it could be found if there was one.
People lost their jobs: real jobs – and were vilified and remain having been unrestored to their reputations by the hundreds. Entire fields were gutted of people who simply refused to say they saw potential for a whole new field of math to develop out of the refrigerant in your air conditioner having a calculable heating component. That’s how evil Al Gore and all who endorse this eco wacko insanity are. “Admit you believe refrigerant is a heater or I’ll destroy your career and your reputation.”