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Saturday, November 21, 2009
The Leak
By now, most of the world knows that England's East Anglia Climatic Research Unit has suffered a massive leak of internal documents pertaining to its "research" into Anthropogenic Global Warming / "climate change." As the leaked documents demonstrate that the CRU's "researchers" have been engaged in a massive con job designed to foist totalitarian economic controls on the world in the name of fighting global warming, the CRU and its fellow travelers in the "green machine" are desperately casting about for a way to recoup.
They will fail. Your Curmudgeon has said it.
They will fail because this is not the first counter-evidence to the AGW / "climate change" thesis, but merely the last (and largest) of a long train of events. Too many AGW "experts" have been caught in self contradictions and outright lies, deliberately distorting meteorological records and other relevant data. Too many have evaded all attempts to debate them. Too many have refused to expose their data, their analytical techniques, or their sacred computer models. Too many have responded to honest inquiries with vilification, slander, and attempts to destroy the inquirer. And far too many private persons have become aware of the immense profits AGW floggers and their acolytes have garnered, from both governmental and corporate coffers, with the AGW thresher.
Michael Bellesiles will soon have company in academia's outer darkness, all the company he could wish. Perhaps Americans will now avert the scourge of Waxman-Markey, as well.
Nothing is guaranteed. The American Left has latched onto two theses as its principal weapons against freedom: AGW and the "health care crisis." Conservatives must not expect them to drop those blades voluntarily; it will take persistent public scrutiny and pressure to disarm them. There's a lot at stake, in money and power, and in the uncritical adoption of the AGW thesis by the Obama Administration, the Left saw its best chance to shackle the American economy since the New Deal.
However, there will be a lull in the AGW propaganda machine while its operators struggle to cope with the disclosure of the East Anglia documents. Two signposts of note are Charlie Martin's and Richard Fernandez's posts on the subject at Pajamas Media. The usual leftist trolls are entirely absent from the commentary there, a very rare phenomenon indeed.
It's usual for a politician to adopt a cause more on the basis of his self-interest than for reasons of intellectual or ethical commitment. In some cases, politician Smith will jump on Cause X simply because no one else has exploited it yet. In others, a bandwagon has already begun to roll, and Smith sees an advantage in getting aboard. Seldom would Smith disregard all considerations of a personal nature in forming an allegiance...especially if he expects that Cause X's fetters would only hobble the hoi polloi. The legislative backers of AGW and nationalized health care have that expectation in common.
Americans have a habit of accommodating those we deem important. If we could be convinced that AGW is a genuine threat, and that only legislative shackling of all human activity could avert it, we would accept it, and would accept the exemption of our political masters from its constraints. But we won't bend to a mirage. We have no patience for totalitarians in Chicken Little costumes, however highly the Old Media might have exalted them. We certainly won't allow Congress to subordinate the American economy, and our freedom to produce and trade as we will, to the chimera AGW has proved to be, while Al Gore flits around the world by private jet and enjoys a mansion with the "carbon footprint" of Godzilla.
Thanks to the nameless hackers who engineered the East Anglia leak, the Left is stunned and cowering. The iron of freedom and productivity is hot. It's time to strike.
UPDATE: Apparently, not everyone agrees. But isn't it curious that no counter-argument is presented? That the riposte consists of a four-letter vulgarity and a swipe at the messenger? A gauge of the writer's intelligence, perhaps?
Would it be kinder to assume that the writer is "intellectually challenged," or that he's a coprolalia sufferer?
UPDATE II: The worthy Ace of Spades reminds us of the Left's response tactics when caught with its pants down:
As I have pointed out ad nauseam: When a leak hurts the right, the story is about the content of the leak.When a leak hurts the left, the content of the leak is ignored, and the story is about the nefarious and criminal evil-doing that produced the leak, and how awful that is, and oh, look, here's an important story about how tough large-breasted women have it when they attempt jogging or gymnastics. Let's talk about that.
Not this time, boys. Not this time.
Comments
Strike fast Strike hard.
Show no mercy, for a fair fight is one that our side wins.
As Germany was de-Nazified after WWII, America needs to be de-“Progressive”-ized, regardless of the political party affiliation of the “Progressive”.
It’s time for a purge, as bloodless as possible.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/21/2009 at 07:33 AMThe Charles Martin link is very interesting, not least for what one of the commenters, Tom Holsinger, reveals about the professional demise of Carl Sagan. Mr. Sagan “made the career-ending mistake of misrepresenting, in print, the opinions of his TTAPS (Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan) colleagues on the radiogical model in the nuclear winter scam. They had to call him on it to save their own careers.” A link to that fracas is provided.
I also like nolan‘s idea that “Green is the new Red.”
The phenomenon of reading blog posts supplemented by comments is one of life’s intellectual pleasures these days.
Posted by Col. B. Bunny on 11/21/2009 at 04:10 PMYes indeed Randy. I just put up a video clip of a speech by Judge Andrew Napolitano and in it he says:
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in it’s maximum hour of danger. You are that generation. This is your role. Now is that time. Freedom must be defended from every assailant in every corner of this country; from outside the country, from inside the country, and especially from the government that wants to take it away from us.”
- Judge Andrew NapolitanoI don’t believe that’s an exaggeration.
Posted by kg on 11/21/2009 at 04:11 PMA propos the “Green is the new Red” point, I can’t resist adding this delicious item reported by NH commenting on Mr. Martin’s post:
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. …The real enemy then is humanity itself. Democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead.”
—From the Club of Rome’s “The First Global Revolution” p. 71,75 [1993]
It recently dawned on me that if I behaved toward the environment the way progressives/liberals behave toward our laws I would be dumping tanker truck loads of dioxin and motor oil in ANWR and declaring open season on whooping cranes and giant pandas.
The left would go nuts if I dumped one spoon of antifreeze into the aquifer but would be—and is—indifferent to any manner of debasement of the legal bedrock of our liberty. THAT kind of pollution is something the left never even considers. Believe me, from long association with liberals in the U.S. I KNOW that for a fact.
Witness the above. “Democracy is no longer well suited . . . .” See how easily that rolls off those tongues? Democracy is nothing at all. Abandon it! Embrace statism! Oh, how superior!
Posted by Col. B. Bunny on 11/21/2009 at 04:52 PMI was quite entertained reading the spin and comments over at RealClimate yesterday. Funny (all definitions intended) how the untouchables behave when they’re touched.
Hopefully this opens a saner road.
Posted by Deb S. on 11/21/2009 at 05:06 PMHmm..I didn’t know large, breasted women were tough.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/24/2009 at 08:17 AM
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