Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Global warming: A well-orchestrated effort to confuse
Over at Roger Pielke Jr.'s blog I see him quoting NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenko as saying, "There is a well-orchestrated and fairly successful effort under way to confuse and sometimes cherry-pick information."
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If you look at the most popular anti-establishment weblogs, only one--Marc Morano's Climate Depot--could be said to have a political agenda and maybe outside funding. One. Those driving the anti-establishment news agenday--Anthony Watts, Steve McIntyre, Jeff Id, Bishop Hill, Joe D'Aleo and other lukewarmers such as Lucia Liljegren, Roger Pielke Sr. and Jr.--are all independent of thought, voice and pocketbook. As am I, although I'm not really in the same league in terms of clout.

I have seen this type of criticism frequently recently, which is why I'm writing about it. It is not just Jane Lubchenko. What I would like to see is someone holding up one message and saying it is an example of this well-orchestrated denial machine.

What is the central message? Where does it originate? How is it circulated? And why wasn't I informed? What kind of silly garbage are these people peddling to smear honest and concerned writers who would run away from any kind of organised message machine?

Anyone with an IQ over 4 could see that there is no central agenda or message--all you have to do is look at the diversity of subjects covered and the different approaches used to see that organising this group would be like herding cats. As I've noted here, there are times they have lost opportunities to hammer home a message because of it. But that's the way they are. They are certainly not always right. They're not always polite. But part of a machine? A truly stupid thing to say.
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...how much of a pass do we really give climate scientists for missing something so obvious as ocean cycles, particularly since even untrained amateurs like myself have been pointing out this omission for years.
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Americans have been falsely condemned for global warming on circumstantial evidence by a stacked jury and without due process. The jury was stacked with biased climatologists, environmental groups, bureaucrat enforcers, and industry insiders. The verdict, declared without trial by the Environmental Protection Agency was something like this: “carbon dioxide is pollution. Since you can’t control yourselves, we will.”

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