Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Professor Joseph A. Palermo, writing for the Huffington Post, thinks anyone who doesn’t agree with climate alarmism shouldn’t be allowed to use any of the products of science.
Republicans, Climate Change, And The New Reality
Joseph A. Palermo
Professor, historian, author
First off, let me be clear: The Republican Party bears responsibility for Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States. The Republican Party nominated him. The party leaders enabled him. There were many complex social, political, and economic forces that produced the Trump catastrophe, but no amount of disassembling and deflecting will change the fact that the Republican Party made this happen.
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Through his public statements and personnel choices Trump has made it clear that he rejects the science of climate change. I’ve always believed that people who dismiss science in one area shouldn’t be able to benefit from science in others. If Trump and his cohort believe the science of global warming is bogus then they shouldn’t be allowed to use the science of the Internet for their Twitter accounts, the science of global positioning for their drones, or the science of nuclear power for their weaponry.
The oil, coal, and gas companies use the same scientific methodology to extract resources that climate scientists use to confirm the planetary disaster that awaits us. It’s pretty crazy to see the U.S. government abandon science when it conflicts with corporate profits, while Trump’s donors from Big Ag, Big Banks, and Big Pharma deploy science to patent new life forms, engage in “high frequency” trading, and invent new drugs.
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/republicans-climate-chang_b_13866868.html
The history of science is riddled with episodes of error, mass delusion and group think.
We don’t reject Sir Isaac Newton because he believed in Alchemy, we recognize the great man made a few mistakes, and accept the enormous contribution Newton made to mathematics and physics.
We don’t reject the work of Einstein because he was wrong about the nature of Quantum randomness. We accept that scientists can be wrong.
We don’t reject the entire field of medicine because for many decades, the medical community wrongly rejected the theory that many stomach ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection.
And we don’t reject free speech, because some people say things with which we disagree.
Professor Palermo as a progressive undoubtedly calls for a diversity. His diversity includes Rohingya people of Myanmar and Malgassy people of Madagascar, but not Trump voters of Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Lassen County, California. Professor Palermo: What was the last time you traveled to Northern California?
Prof Palermo has spent his career intimidating 18 & 19 year-old kids (aka: students) who are dependent on him for a grade. He does this at Sacramento State University – not exactly 1st tier.
Wonder if he’s ever considered picking on someone his own size?
Since I am already banned from tweeter criticism on the basis of ad hoc digital censorship, does it matter?
Palermo is a “…Professor, historian, author…” says his university profile.
All that anyone ever needs to remember about those who are on “the Left” is this: The default position of “the Left” is tyranny. This has been true since the very notion of “La Gauche” emerged in the French Revolution.
And never forget that the worst mass-killers in history (NZDAP (Germany), the PNF (Italy), the Communist parties wherever they were/are found) and their political ideologies are/were of “the Left”.
Some Professor if he doesn’t get this – but perhaps he does, which makes his notions more sinister than stupid.
He is a spoilt little boy in a mans body.
The only real question to be answered here is: Will we have four or eight more years of this childish hysteria?
Turning over rocks to see what comes scurrying out from beneath.
Trump the gift of light and fresh air that keeps on giving.
Another pathetic Democrat in Denial . Trump won because the arrogant Democrats and MSM lost touch with
the issues that matter . A President that doubles the national debt and thinks global warming (rebranded climate change ) is the world’s number 1 threat is really unbelievable to say the least . Climate changes as it has for over 4 billion years , it’s warming and humans minuscule impact isn’t even a rounding error .
I love it when people like Palermo open their mouths . It confirms why Trump won .
Republicans, Climate Change, And The New Reality
Joseph A. Palermo
Professor, historian, author
First off, let me be clear: The Republican Party bears responsibility for Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States. The Republican Party nominated him. The party leaders enabled him. There were many complex social, political, and economic forces that produced the Trump catastrophe, but no amount of disassembling and deflecting will change the fact that the Republican Party made this happen.
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Through his public statements and personnel choices Trump has made it clear that he rejects the science of climate change. I’ve always believed that people who dismiss science in one area shouldn’t be able to benefit from science in others. If Trump and his cohort believe the science of global warming is bogus then they shouldn’t be allowed to use the science of the Internet for their Twitter accounts, the science of global positioning for their drones, or the science of nuclear power for their weaponry.
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OK with me. And if Palermians don’t want to think for themselves they shouldn’t use Umberto Eco’s meta language ‘semiotics’:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco
Since the most scientifically advanced method of measuring global temps is satellite (the most mathematically complex, the greatest coverage, the least affected by UHI etc), I decree that anyone who doesn’t exclusively use the satellite dataset is Anti-Science. Anyone quoting the GISS dataset should be given access only to the level of t chnogy existing at the time of the mercury thermometer and Stevenson Screen.
Naturally, they must be banned from any academic position.
‘Professor’ Palermo is a carbon based life form and therefore, by his own definition, pollution. At least he’s got one thing right.
Learned idiots have been influential in the corridors of power for far too long. They have a great responsibility for government stupidity around the world.
On the brighter side, Italy holds academics responsible for the harm they do. Hopefully Dr. Palermo will find himself on the wrong end of a lawsuit:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829107/Scientists-jailed-manslaughter-did-not-predict-deadly-earthquake-Italy-killed-309-people-cleared.html
It’s simply amazing, the people the Puffington Host gets to write for them, and the articles they post.
This whole UN mess plays right into the hands of Trump, who had intended to cut off UN funding for Climate Change measures, but now , thanks to Pres**ent Obama’s “Present” vote on Israeli settlements, a bipartisan Congress will now do it for him.
Given what was known at the time, Newton was not wrong about Alchemy.
The experiments and notes of the alchemists eventually led to the science of chemistry.
“If Trump and his cohort believe the science of global warming is bogus then they shouldn’t be allowed…”
The totalitarian impulse could not be more clear. This deranged kook thinks people “shouldn’t be allowed” certain things based solely on their beliefs. If you don’t blindly accept and submit to scientific authoritarianism then he wants to take your rights away.
If any class of people should be excluded from enjoying the benefits of science and technology it’s the alarmists, especially those who claim to be climate scientists. They’ve ‘crafted’ science to support their position based on anything but the scientific method. It’s become such an autarchic pile of muck, they’ve turned climate science into a joke. The ‘science’ is so fragile, all they have left to further their scientifically unsupportable cause is the kinds of social manipulation pushed by Palermo and others.
This is the advice from the tenured to the non-tenured, recommending actions anathema to the tenured themselves. Some pigs are more equal than others.
Feel sorry for any students captive to campus left wing preachers .
Having to pay huge money to listen to people so out to lunch is really rather disheartening .
As a scientist, I have personally known a number of ecologists who were wrong and boneheaded about it (unwilling to change their views no matter what). I have seen them give a talk that contradicted their own textbook. I have also known some complete idiots and frauds. Only people outside science could imagine that scientists are never wrong.
To follow Paleromo’s logic what about turning off the power from coal fired generators to areas of our cities dominated by green voters who want the rest of us to adopt unreliable renewables
Or if in the event we do go down then windpowered path and there is need to shed load when the wind stops blowing how about we cut off power first to such green voters
Or when the State of South Australia has problems with the wind not blowing given it is 45 percent reliant on wind power lets say the brown coal state of Victoria refuses to send them power through the interstate connector?
Once you start that kind of punitive action against one group of citizens there is no limit to it as the above examples suggest
Professor Palermo shows his overwhelming naitivity about science. There are many educated (much more than himself) scientists who believe science proves a young earth. Young earth scientists are not ignorant or uneducated. Global warming and evolution are both unproven theories.