Sometimes you just have to laugh. One of my blog spawn (a not so anonymous academic at a “respected institution of higher learning”) decided to have a go at our post: Despicable climate ugliness courtesy of Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology
Yet in his typical ivory tower enabled myopia, his case gets weakened by yet another (not so) anonymous coward who’s hoping for my perp walk to The Hague:
But the Nazis were only small potatoes – they merely murdered millions. But right now, today, we are witnessing the murder-in-slow-motion of at least a billion people. A crime perpetrated primarily through the use of a concerted propaganda campaign. Can anyone explain to me how it was proper to prosecute Goebbels, yet the Koch brothers and the former head of Exxon Mobil should not be similarly prosecuted?
And yes, I believe Anthony Watts should be frogmarched to The Hague as well. No question, in my mind. In fact, I find the idea of a defense of his actions ethically reprehensible.
That comment was written by “gingerbaker” who just happens to be easy to find, since the link in his comment to his photo website and photo store is public information.
So, Bill Forsyth who I believe is “Ginger Baker”, you are welcome to tell me to my face right here, that exercising my constitutional free speech right to an opinion on climate is worthy of a war crimes style trial.
UPDATE: Speaking of musical connections (“Ginger Baker” is the drummer in Cream) maybe we can piggyback this trial onto the other first amendment trial, the Mann-Steyn Steamroller
For you scooter riding youngsters, who don’t get the joke, see this.
UPDATE2: Since the academic host of “and then theres hatespeech physics” decided that he’d better disappear the comment, once word got out he was being criticized for it, I offer this helpful screencap:
UPDATE3: Brandon Schollenberger looks at the larger universe of stupid surrounding that comment and the website, saying Stupidity is the real offense.
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Zeke, read somewhere that the UK was never so fit as in the war on a restricted diet.
The interesting thing is how trite Ginger is……. Is this the best, the Climate Genius can come up with?
The limp wrist-ed Chicken Little’s , who hang on every word of the so called Climate Scientists are getting desperate! By the way I cringe every time I hear word “Scientist” applied to to someone, who thinks he is a scientist because He can program a computer. Maybe we should call them Climate hackers
I just put the “Can Al Gore be Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity” thing on my
site at http://www.winface.com/amt/gore.html
It seemed funnier (less disolate ) when I wrote it two years ago.
Doesn’t hurt to also spend your days clearing the rubble from bombed out buildings, putting out fires, etc.
richard, I read somewhere that luxury and power are unfitting for collectivists who want to claim they made others “fit” by destroying their cattle and agriculture.
mi cro-
Marching, filling bags with sand, everyone growing their own vegetables,
I am afraid that we do not have enough hotels in the Netherlands and certainly not in The Hague to lodge all the skeptics if Mr Gingerbaker’s fantasies come true.
ah here it is,
http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/20-98-world-war-2-Health-facts.html
Sort of fits the whole reverting to the 19th century the progressive seem to be advocating for everyone, except themselves I’m sure, scientist with their sensibilities I’m sure would have more important things to be doing besides manual labor.
‘gingerbaker’ {who may or may not be someone called Bill Forsyth} has an unstated false premise. It is that he requires that there are Earth dooming con$pira¢ies carried out by us independent thinkers who do not engage in his collectivized ideas and collectivized morality regarding climate. (Doesn’t that sound somewhat like the con$pira¢ies Mann advocates in his book?)
Philosophies that require collectivization in any way or any form on any subject are the necessary and sufficient cause of socially applied authoritarianism. It is the antithesis of the philosophy of individualism as a basis for human association.
Doing things based on the premises of collectivist philosophy leads the horrific nadir of civilizations as we saw in the 20th century.
NOTE: Is ‘gingerbaker’ intellectually an Oreskes copy cat or what? I bet ‘is’.
John
Another climate kook who wants to jail us for doubting predictions of things that won’t happen, and over claimed evidence that is never actually clear without a huge marketing push and the suppression of any questions of the evidence or claims.
In other words he is a pseudo-religious ignorant fascist wannabe, a cowardly bully of the lowest order. Sort of like some climate scientists who have infested the public space, in other words.
That comment was written by “gingerbaker” who just happens to be easy to find, since the link in his comment to his photo website and photo store is public information.
Of course it is, but by republishing it and plastering the WHOIS all over his front page, and then bragging about it, Watts has now revealed himself in the most dramatic manner possible to be the crass, classless fool that most people already know him to be, Really, that’s so … mid nineties.
Totally out of touch with modern reality. I think he should sue, his reputation has been sullied.
I there any basis at all to the Koch brothers or Exxon conspiracies?
Isn’t it all imaginary?
Did I miss something?
“But the Nazis were only small potatoes – they merely murdered millions. But right now, today, we are witnessing the murder-in-slow-motion of at least a billion people”
How despicable to demean the deaths of millions of innocent people in such a way. Where’s the ADL when you need them?
The problem with CAGW denialists is that they are a well informed group of people who have studied the data and are very thorough in their arguments. Off with their heads!
Thomas Lee Elifritz says:
March 19, 2014 at 11:21 am
How classy do you think it is to compare skeptics to N*z*s, as does “gingerbaker”, & call for their trial & elimination, like a good N*z*?
They care so deeply for the world and the poor people who are to harmed by agw, but if you disagree with what they believe, then “off with your head”. Wow.
I doubt they would show up in The Hague, as far as have noticed by the time people like him will degenerated to the low level his rant shows it is all they have left.. Hang in there Mr. Watts you are doing fine.
(BTW do you have a site where I can look at your weather station products? Send an E-Mail please i am north of the 49th), Thanks, love your site and the sane people that follow it.
“we are witnessing the murder-in-slow-motion of at least a billion people” – given to exaggeration much?
“A crime perpetrated primarily through the use of a concerted propaganda campaign” – you talking about the global warming fraud here?.
“Anthony Watts should be frogmarched to The Hague as well” – as well as…. who? Who runs the Hague?
From the blog post:
“He’s referring to those [scoundrels like Mr. Watts] who are knowingly presenting misinformation for political or financial gain” – what, knowingly present misinformation for political or financial gain… you mean like the totally controlled global mainstream media?
Now I wish I hadn’t wasted my time typing all that in, because mr. anonymous is probably a basement-dweller or a paid internet troll. Either way, I’ve just wasted 10 minutes of my life (and a 50/50 chance I’ll be on yet another list for completely harmless activity).
For those who dispute the existence of paid (state-sponsored) internet trolls – please do some research. Personally, I think Mr. Watts should just ignore the silly commenter. He’ll just suck you in – by design.
There is much trickery in cyberspace.
I suggest richard watch his own girlish figure. Progressive scientists can power their own houses with this sustainable bicycle generator:
Knock yourself out, as they say.
I got a tweet favorited by Jack Bruce the other day after mentioning him as an authority on politicians and morals. As for Ginger’s rant, he must have missed the tone it down memo.
Thomas Lee Elifritz says:
March 19, 2014 at 10:44 am
Sheesh, Thomas!! Don’t you know the difference between physics and economics? I guess you’re not old, infirm, on a ‘state’ pension/fixed income. If you were you would know what it’s like to consider that wonderful problem brought to us by algoreism: ‘Heat, or eat?’ But you’re not old, you’re an idiot.
The more the Warmunists speak, the more they expose themselves.
I do not care if mankind is causing “Climate Change” far beyond the worst- case examples given by those totalitarian enablers, I’ll have nothing to do with them, or their hateful philosophies.
Zeke , it”s not bad.
though funny how the body shape changes over the years,
I will let others try to explain why for you. We know that ExxonMobil has in 2011 and 2012 funded Michael Mann’s university. Here is something else we know.
Exxon’s money is in fact all over the place in climate and the environment. So maybe this is why Mr. Bill Forsyth.