By Elmer Beauregard
It used to be a lot easier for people in power like Al Gore to control peoples opinions.
Not too long ago you if you said something stupid on national TV it was no big deal, just a phone call to a couple of big newspapers and the story went nowhere. But now if you say anything wrong at all, like the earth's core is several million degrees instead of several thousand degrees, all the little bloggers with no credentials jump all over it and make a big deal about it.
Or when Senator John Kerry, in explaining the need for a climate change bill, noted that in "the last eight years emissions in the United States of America in greenhouse gasses went up four times faster than in the 1990s" when in actuality they went down in that time period. In the olden days the press would just take Kerry's word as gospel.
And now with the release of the leaked emails from AirVent.com I bet Al Gore Wishes he never would have invented the internet.
The Global Warming Extremists had a good thing going for a while. All it took was one U.N. entity, a few scientists, a few scientific journals, one chart based on one tree, one politician and his documentary plus the main stream media, and Voilà! You have a worldwide crisis that requires a worldwide tax and a worldwide government. But all it took to bring it down was one comment on one little blog. Even the New York Times is talking about it.
It will take a long time to decipher what was said in these emails but here is one of my personal favorites so far.
if McIntyre had a legitimate point, he would submit a comment to the journal in question. of course, the last time he tried that (w/ our '98 article in Nature), his comment was rejected. For all of the noise and bluster about the Steig et al Antarctic warming, its now nearing a year and nothing has been submitted. So more likely he won't submit for peer-reviewed scrutiny, or if it does get his criticism "published" it will be in the discredited contrarian home journal "Energy and Environment". I'm sure you are aware that McIntyre and his ilk realize they no longer need to get their crap published in legitimate journals. All they have to do is put it up on their blog, and the contrarian noise machine kicks into gear, pretty soon Druge, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their ilk (in this case, The Telegraph were already on it this morning) are parroting the claims. And based on what? some guy w/ no credentials, dubious connections with the energy industry, and who hasn't submitted his claims to the scrutiny of peer review.
The Global Warming Extremists controlled the argument for years by saying, it's only legitimate science if it's published in certain journals and peer reviewed, and if you control the Journals you control the science. But sadly with Al Gore's invention, the anointed few are losing control, much like the medieval church did with the invention of the printing press.
These scamsters are the same people who insist we all came from nothing.Why would anyone believe anything they say? Be warned, the neo-pagans are going to be rolled,the Landlord is on His way back to put an end to all nonsense. For proof, read history!
Elmer,
Excellent writing! Laugh out loud funny too. You have managed to capture and distill the whole Global Warming scam down to a nice concise article that should be required reading in the schools, or at least aired on Beck and Rush. Thanks for this, definite keeper!
P.S. you need an option for printable.
Thanks for you kind words.
Regarding the attempt to evade Freedom of Information obligations in these leaked emails it helps to refer to the legal definition of conspiracy:
"an agreement between one or more persons to commit an unlawful act".
Unlawful, not criminal.The agreement can be tacit, by simply doing what one of the group suggested.
This is getting interesting.
Nik
I think that the lesson to be learned is:
"Beware comment #10!"
{Cue evil laughter.......}
Now that Globull Warming (excuse me "Climate Change) has been thankfully debunked. That allows us to focus on the more pressing crisis...
"THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"
We may already be past the point of no return. We must pass a SKY IS FALLING GLOBAL TAX so fight this man made abomination. CAN NO ONE SAVE US???
Mr. Gore, can you help??? Do you have some kind of credit voucher I can purchase to help offset the effects of the falling sky?
This is huge. I live in Hawaii and it is even getting colder here. Freezing this morning at 50 degrees. Globull Warming huh!
What bothers me is that our children have been fed this bullshit. I watched the reaction of some fifth graders who were forced to watch the gore movie. These kids were really scared.
This hoax has permeated every corner of our lives.
Now to find out the the arctic ice is not melting, that polar bears have increased in numbers and that cow farts will not hurt us is overwhelming for me.
And now Bambi is going to Copenhagen. I guess the only reason for the trip is to accrue carbon miles, maybe we taxpayers won't have to pay for his next worthless, useless trip.
I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone.
I say lets class action this and sue for pain and suffering.