From his column in the Canadian National Post:
It may now join the propositions of Euclid, as impregnable to rebuttal, that Donald Trump or any news that alludes to him, unhinges the minds of those who oppose him. Trump, in this respect, is like global warming. He is the universal key to every phenomenon. Any statement about Trump, so long as it is in any way condemnatory, dismissive, insulting or condescending, requires neither proof, consistency, logic or (and especially) decency.
Just as enlisting in the grand cause of global warming invests the recruit with the immeasurable gifts of infallibility, moral superiority and boundless righteousness, so too does opposition, even to hatred, of Trump free the mind from all obligation to moderation, custom, or articulate argument. It is the ultimate pass to be as nasty and crude as anyone could wish, and — with rarely noted irony — even to be more nasty and crude than the great boorish Trump himself. How odd: to oppose Trump is to become a more clangorous version of him.
Full editorial here
I wonder if Rex was talking about David Appell’s recent debate?
In case you missed it… From Dec 10, 2009. Rex Murphy comments about Climategate. 4 minutes.
Rex Murphy POV: Climate Change – Science or Politics?
Not available in this country?
“The uploader has not made this video available in your country”
You could always move up here to the real world.
Give up Trump for … Trudeau and a video?
Gonna need a better deal!
Rex was booted out of CBC for understanding what the global warming climate change con was all about and telling the truth about it. For me it was a sure sign the Globalist-pharma cabal had infiltrated the top levels and was doing the same with all of MSM.
In a way, the two ARE similar, as they both involve a lot of negative presumptions, work backwards from a conclusion, and are positioned to take the high moral ground.
Everyone simply must read this:
‘The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning’
https://nypost.com/2018/06/30/the-left-needs-to-face-reality-trump-is-winning/
Cheers
Hollywood Director David Lynch:
“Trump could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much. No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.” While Trump may not be doing a good job himself, Lynch thinks, he is opening up a space where other outsiders might. “Our so-called leaders can’t take the country forward, can’t get anything done. Like children, they are. Trump has shown all this.”
Trump joked:
“There’s David Lynch. Enjoy it because his career in Hollywood is officially over.”
“… the propositions of Euclid, as impregnable to rebuttal”
But, but, but, … Euclid’s 5th postulate (proposition) was rebutted. Hence non-Euclidean geometry.
“I wonder if Rex was talking about David Appell’s recent debate?”
He can debate Chloe. She’s a nice girl
If there is someone in the U.S. that writes as well as Rex, I have failed to find her or him.
I am thankful that the (Canadian) National Post allows me to read these columns without charge.
I suggest every publication allow a few (4 to 6) reads per month.
Further, suggest all sites permit “copy & paste” operations. For example, if a place is mentioned, I like to copy that name into Google Earth or another mapper to see where the story comes from. It is a butt pain to have to type more than 5 characters because a site thinks I should not be able to heist their material. Good Grief!
So, 3 cheers for the National Post, and Rex.
Hello John H:
I suggest you have one American writer who is perhaps the equal of our much-admired Rex Murphy.
He is not a professional writer, however. He was, until his recent retirement, Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT. His name is Dr. Richard S Lindzen.
Below is my subject post from 2013, commenting on Lindzen’s WSJ article written in 2001. Since 2001, tens of trillions of dollars have been squandered on false global warming alarmism and green energy nonsense.
Imagine IF our idiot politicians had listened to Richard Lindzen in 2001 instead of Al Gore and other false global warming alarmists. In the years since, global warming alarmism has wasted tens of trillions of dollars, mostly in “green energy” subsidies, representing scarce global resources that could have provided clean water and sanitation systems for every village on the planet and run them forever; and the remaining funds could probably have gone a long way to eliminating world hunger.
Regards, Allan
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/08/lindzen-understanding-the-ipcc-ar5-climate-assessment/#comment-1118692
I greatly admire Richard Lindzen.
Not only does he make sense, but the man writes like an angel.
Excerpted from the Wall Street Journal, 2001:
June 11, 2001
Scientists’ Report Doesn’t Support the Kyoto Treaty
By Richard S. Lindzen
http://eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/OpEds/LindzenWSJ.pdf
The full IPCC report is an admirable description of research activities in climate science, but it is not specifically directed at policy. The Summary for Policymakers is, but it is also a very different document. It represents a consensus of government representatives (many of whom are also their nations’ Kyoto representatives), rather than of scientists. The resulting document has a strong tendency to disguise uncertainty, and conjures up some scary scenarios for which there is no evidence.
Science, in the public arena, is commonly used as a source of authority with which to bludgeon political opponents and propagandize uninformed citizens. This is what has been done with both the reports of the IPCC and the NAS. It is a reprehensible practice that corrodes our ability to make rational decisions. A fairer view of the science will show that there is still a vast amount of uncertainty — far more than advocates of Kyoto would like to acknowledge — and that the NAS report has hardly ended the debate. Nor was it meant to.
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Yes. Thanks.
Usually academics are very poor wordsmiths.
I have observed that in the real world you rarely get to choose between good and bad – you get to choose between not-so-good and much worse.
The left has vilified Trump and made him out to be an arch-villain, some even saying he is another Hitler. Well, that is the batsh!t crazy left, and nobody should listen to them.
But even on the right, people are complaining that Trump is rude, boorish etc. I say get over it, good people and get over yourselves – you don’t get perfection in any politician, or any human being for that matter. You get what you get. In this case, your alternative was Hillary, and if you got her as President, your country was finished.
Case closed.
Some related thoughts here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/07/child-miners-aged-four-living-a-hell-on-earth-so-you-can-drive-an-electric-car-awful-human-cost-in-squalid-congo-cobalt-mine-that-michael-gove-didnt-consider-in-his-clean-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-2575826
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2. In the developing world, you don’t get to choose between good and bad – you get to choose between bad and worse. In Tunisia during the hot war in Libya next door and Arab Spring, I tried to explain this to some influential friends. I said “Just because you throw out a ‘bad’ leader doesn’t mean you will get a better one.” In fact most or all the countries involved in Arab Spring got worse regimes than the ones they threw out.
Just because you toss about a bad system does not mean you will make a better one…
Regards, Allan
Lately, in Canada, TDS seems to be the new PTSD…Don’t even try to have a civil discussion with a liberal, you’ll get covered in their spittle as they scream at you about being a Devils Spawn !!
typo:
Just because you toss out a bad system does not mean you will make a better one…
It was a tweet posted by a University of Waterloo political science prof, Emmett MacFaralane, comparing Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Joseph Goebbels.
If President Trump started (S)hitting bars of Pure Gold, the left wing nuts would complain that he was stealing the wealth of the unknown universe !!