Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Confusionist Hordes | Planet3.0
Genghis worked it this way. He had his army set up camp outside a walled city. At night the army would light hundreds of campfires, most of them around dummy encampments, so that anyone looking out from the walls of the city would see campfires everywhere and presume a Mongol army much larger than the one that actually existed. Thus Genghis could win the psychological war on his enemy without risking a single casualty, and provoked concessions and easy victories from deceived and frightened opponents. With an army of 50,000 illiterate Mongols—trivial in the larger scheme of things—Genghis created the largest empire the world has ever known, and it was tactics like the above which allowed him to do it.

The climate denial camp is now using a similar tactic. To create an illusion of numbers, they recycle the same old deniers over and over again. But really, they aren’t many. It may seem that way sometimes, but actually, they’ve just built a lot of campfires. The Mongol hordes of medieval times have simply been replaced with a miscellaneous helter-skelter of climate deniers, who’ve got the oil and gas industry to build their fires for them.
More Fires Than Mongols: Illusions of Controversy in Climate Change « Father Theo's Blog
There may be a lot of campfires, but the denier camp version of the Mongol horde could probably be routed by a Boy Scout troupe armed with BB guns and sling-shots.
If the climate rebels are so easy to defeat, why are we winning, even after the alarmists had a two-year period with the U.S. President, the House and Senate, the UN, the mainstream media, and Al Gore's $300 million all on their side?

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