While the Anti Defamation League turns a blind eye to their own home grown hypocrisy and ugliness, Lawrence Torcello comes up with even more.
Via Delingpole at Breitbart:
Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison, a US philosophy professor argues on a website funded by the UK government.
Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, writes in an essay at The Conversation that climate scientists who fail to communicate the correct message about “global warming” should face trial for “criminal negligence”. (H/T Bishop Hill)
What are we to make of those behind the well documented corporate funding of global warming denial? Those who purposefully strive to make sure “inexact, incomplete and contradictory information” is given to the public? I believe we understand them correctly when we know them to be not only corrupt and deceitful, but criminally negligent in their willful disregard for human life. It is time for modern societies to interpret and update their legal systems accordingly.
More here: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/13/US-Philosophy-Professor-Jail-Denialist-Climate-Scientists-For-Criminal-Negligence
What next, numbers tattoed on our arms because we hold an opinion different from Torcello?
From their Vision and Mission page:
Integrity and Ethics: Does what it takes to deliver on commitments made to the department, college, or division and to constituency groups. Builds personal trust and relationships inside and outside the university by doing what one says he or she will do when it is promised.
Respect, Diversity and Pluralism: Provides a high level of service to fellow members of the RIT community. Treats every person with dignity. Demonstrates inclusion by incorporating diverse perspectives to plan, conduct, and/or evaluate the work of the organization, department, college, or division.
Apparently “treating people with dignity” only applies if you are part of the RIT community.
If you want to complain to the Rochester Institute of Technology about Mr. Torcello, here’s the places to do it:
http://www.rit.edu/fa/humanresources/aboutus
http://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/Torcello.html
If you choose to lodge a complaint, be sure to be courteous and factual, we don’t need to surrender the moral high ground to anger.
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“What are we to make of those behind the well documented corporate funding of global warming denial?”
Repeating idle speculation that appears in populist newspapers doe not constitute being ‘well documented’.
The well-funded denialist machine is that group of political activists devoting their time and public money to divert attention away from the temperature, hurricane, tornado, ice cover, rainfall, drought and storminess facts so as to support the falsified claims of erroneous climate ‘models’.
There is indeed a denialist machine and it receives the enthusiastic support of a larger group of academics who seem to have forgotten how science works. As a result we get examples like the above – the gross misapplication of intelligence to problems that are at present being badly mishandled by those entrusted to guide the larger community.
In the fifties of the last century there used to be a widely distributed booklet on communist ethics in Hungary, containing the infamous phrase “A Párt a mi eszünk, becsületünk, lelkiismeretünk, világos jelenünk, ragyogó jövőnk”, which roughly translates to “The Party is our wits, honor and conscience, our bright present and shining future.”
It was ridiculed, of course, but only in private, otherwise one would not have had lasted for long enough to take another breath. And it was not ridiculed by everyone, some took it seriously, and those who did, had the guns. And they were willing to use their instruments with no wits, honor or conscience whatsoever on anyone they were told to by no one else but the Party. What else were they supposed to do in a bright present, looking forward to a shining future, devoid of all their inherent mental or spiritual capacities?
That’s how dangerous Assistant Professors like Lawrence Torcello are. They write the booklet, to be used in practice by a mob of faithful gunmen as soon as the opportunity is given. If free speech has limits, Torcello has certainly crossed them.
If you do write to RIT, write to the President of the school. Respectfully, coherently and pointedly.
Despicable climate ugliness?
Yes, and?
What did you expect?
This sorry individual has linked his academic future to “sceptic bashing”. As the “moderate” voices slink away from climate alarmisim, the only people the lame stream media will be able to call on for comment is squealing leftardulent foamers like Torcello. Many in the lame steam media now realise they are going down with the hoax. They are desperate for voices of support to delay the inevitable.
There will many more Torcello’s given the global stage to vent their intellectual poison in the dying days of this global hoax, you can be sure of that. You have all observed Gleick, Mann, Karoly, Turney and Trenberth crest the madness horizon and madly accelerating. There will be more, and in their panic the lame stream media will give them all voice. It should be no matter but…there is one problem.
That is you dear WUWT reader. Yes. You. (sorry about this…)
The global warming inanity has been the greatest economic threat to our civilisation in many years. It has also threatened science, reason, freedom and democracy.
The lukewarmer path is the path of “real politic”. It will end the economic threat to our civilisation from the AGW inanity.
As many would already know, I am one of those “crazies” who claim radiative gases cool our planet. I back this with empirical experiment and I never accept support from any who have not built and run empirical experiments themselves. ( readers should consider the the host of this site has conducted empirical experiments on a scale I could never imagined – the surface stations project )
I am not demanding that WUWT that readers acknowledge or agree with any of my empirical results, rather I am asking you to make maximum effort to “not to be wrong”. If you fold and take the easy answer “warming, but less than we thought”, the economic threat may be eliminated, but the threat to to science, reason, freedom and democracy remains.
The “lukewarmer” path may be wrong or right. If it is wrong you still eliminate the economic threat. But if you have learnt anything, you should know the threat of Lysenkoism far greater. It’s not about the millions of deaths Lysenkoism caused that cannot be undone no matter how much we wish it, but what would have happened if the Lysenko dial were turned to “near zero” instead of “off”.
Does Torcello upset you? A soft landing for this hoax ensures that he and his fellow travellers suffer little penalty of their actions, and worse continue in their positions of social and political influence. If adding radiative gases to our atmosphere actually does not reduce the atmospheres radiative cooling ability yet sceptics fold and concede just “less warming than we thought” who will forgive us?
I consider the host of this site a hero of the internet age. Anthony was instrumental in stopping the global warming nonsense dead in its tracks. I can understand the pressure of unexpectedly becoming a focus of the sceptic discourse in all of global communications. But fear of being wrong in the public eye should not outweigh the desire to be right. (or necessity of being right – sorry, engineering…) In the global warming debate, “less wrong” is not going to cut it with future generations.
Ultimately the “lukewarmer” line is a political line. For the correct scientific solution other hypotheses must be considered. 99% of these (including my own) may be trash, but if they have not been given voice at the most read science blog on the Internet then the voice of the Torcello’s may continue to be given the microphone.
Open minds are still required in this debate. (although not so open that brains slide out 😉 )
We certainly see an example here of criminal stupidity. Just how dumb do you have to be not to qualify for employment as a university lecturer?
Desperate people do (and say) desperate things. Watch for more of this as they try one of the last fall-back positions available: threaten those with IQ’s above 100.
Steve B says:
March 14, 2014 at 3:01 am ……………………………
Excellent.. e-mail to RIT. Thanks
urederra says:March 14, 2014 at 3:21 am
Hope you don’t mind, I had something similar in mind, and amended your image:
http://i58.tinypic.com/2ivg2nd.jpg
My first inclination was ‘666’ but it seemed over the top.
Ceetee says:
March 14, 2014 at 3:53 am
Why bother getting a university education when you can be a moron for a lot less time and effort with no financial outlay?. Discuss.
Well, it depends on who’s financial outlay it takes. His is likely all grant funded, so he certainly has no skin in the game.
Wayne Delbeke says:
March 13, 2014 at 11:45 pm
What an insult to the late Fred Gwynne. Even on his worst days he looked better than this guy.
Of ALL of it? If not, of how much–75%? 50%? 25%?
Does a speaker’s fee at a think tank luncheon, or payment for an article in a think tank magazine, or publication of one’s book by such an organization, imply that the speaker or writer has been bought? By that logic, most warmists–especially such as Hansen, with a large income from such sources–are guilty too
Does an “affiliation” with a conservative or libertarian think tank (whatever that means–it may just mean being listed in a Heartland sidebar as a skeptical scientist) imply that the affiliatee has been bought? For instance, does Aaron Wildavsky’s affiliation with the Independent Institute imply that everything he wrote, before or since, such as But Is It True?, was mere paid-for–and false–propaganda? I’ve seen that absurd claim made in one of the main articles Torcello is surely relying on (in the Midwestern J. of Sociology, I think). Once again, Tu Quoque!
Does every dollar that goes to a conservative or libertarian think tank go to denying climate change, because they are a climate-denial organization? I’ve seen that absurd but effective piece of dissimulation used often by Big Green. Philosophers are supposed to specialize in seeing through such fallacies–but I wouldn’t be surprised if Torcello hasn’t.
He is an assistant professor which means untenured. This may come back to bite him in the ass.
I’ll repeat previous comments made by others that private institution RIT is a very highly regarded (and expensive at $45.6K per year) undergraduate school for Engineering. Their co-op program is excellent.
I strongly recommend that Prof. Torcello amplify and expand his comments, hopefully into a series of NYT op-eds. This can only reinforce the ‘winning’ efforts of Lewandowski, Cook, Norgaard, Gleick, Mann, Roberts, etc.
Polls are clearly showing the impact these climate illuminati have had on public sentiment concerning global warming/climate change/climate disruption/tipping points/weather extremes.
“at The Conversation”
“I do not think that word means what they think it means”- paraphrasing Inigo Montoya
Sorry, didn’t read past “assistant professor of philosophy”. That’s like “stand-in bass player in a punk band”.
Seriously, as Drew Carey says, things should be picking up for your economy as “..they just decided to open up that big philosophy factory in Green Bay”.
Shocking, shocking, shocking……….that he is not a full professor.
You would think that anyone from that part of New York state who had any common sense at all would welcome some global warming.
Perhaps we shouldn’t worry too much about toads when adulated by the likes of Chloe Sumner who reacts at the conversation:
“Professor Torcello is absolutely correct. Our lamentable industrial “civilisation” is heading off a cliff – small loss if it is destroyed but it threatens to do great damage to the biosphere.”
A bit clueless about what keeps her alive and reasonably safe.
Meh. The headline, “Some irrelevant, tenured PhD parrots his party’s line” isn’t exactly earth-shattering news.
chris y says:
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RIT’s technical and engineering has been good for Rochester in many ways over the years, from it’s humble beginning as a storefront college. Years ago I had a custom comp built in Roch. After I ordered what I wanted the gentleman said it was nearly identical to the one’s the engineering people at RIT ordered often. Was a fine computer for years.
My daughter graduated from there and does some part-time teaching there presently. Have to send her this article link. Fortunately, she definitely wasn’t brainwashed by her schooling there, so will be interested to see her reaction.
As I have been saying for years… this global lie called global warming has become a religion for these nutters. They should be put away in a rubber room and toss the key.
If time and observations show the IPCC scientists to be grossly in error (which looks like it has started happening) would it be right to prosecute and imprison them? Be careful what you wish for.
What makes presumably intelligent and educated people like Torcello say these hysterical things? Well, acute fear and desperation, obviously. If their case for CAGW was as settled and reliable as they claim, there would be none of this.
The increasing levels of hysteria and multiple nefarious lines of attack to attempt to shut people up (looking at you, Nature Trick Mike) are surefire evidence that their case is basically lost and they know it.
All of the above maybe true but unfortunately the politicians are not listening and unless all of the above can find a way to persuade politicians that what they believe is happening just is not happening then everything is just pointless hot air, no one is listening!!
Perhaps, he can go to one of these fine prisons he wishes to send the rest of us. Better yet a philosophical one- like a deep hole where no one will see or hear him and then we can muse philosophically whether or not he is even in prison since no one will be able to see or hear him…
I always find it ironic that the thing liberals (aka elitist tyrants) want and accuse everyone else of are the very things they are guilty of and deserve. LOL