The circular reasoning of the Global Warming Cult goes like this: WE ARE SMART BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING. GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL BECAUSE SMART PEOPLE LIKE US BELIEVE IN IT. There is no room for facts or logic within the circle. And when unfortunate facts emerge outside the circle, like a group of Global Warming cultists getting stuck in Antarctic ice after traveling to Antarctica in the middle of summer to prove that Antarctic ice was melting, the Global Warming cultists in the MFM dutifully hide such facts from the public; lest the infallibility of the Cult of Smart People come into question.
The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.
In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming.
What upsets me the most is that these people’s antics reduces the faith people have in science. As long as scientific capabilities keep pace with human imagination (I wonder if we can do this?), science is safe. But once human imagination outstrips scientific capability or even scientific possibility, then science gets turned into a religion. Metallurgy turned into alchemy when people started trying to turn lead into gold. The ability to control the climate, or even accurately predict it, is currently beyond our scientific capabilities. Hence the Cult of Global Warming. I mean Climate Change. I mean Global Cooling. I mean…
I disagree with the first sentence. The belief of the left in their superior intelligence has been with us for a long time. But that belief gives them certainty. I’m brilliant, and so the fact that I believe something is evidence for it. The humility that leads one to test beliefs is simply not there.
My take on this entire climate change BS, whether it be cooling, warming, or something equally inane, is that there are several different groups that make up this cabal. One group is the useful idiots who believe in it hook, line & sinker. No matter what contradictory evidence there is, they will stubbornly keep to their belief. The other group, a significantly sinister group, know or suspect it is all so much bull$hit, but see it as a way to amass vast wealth, power, and influence. They are the cult leaders. They are the people who become very wealthy and powerful on the backs of the useful idiots and the sheeple who rollover and don’t put up a fight.
Where this ends is anybody’s guess. With political leaders like obama, clinton, and others of a similar ilk, I think it is with us, and the global society, in essence, forever.
A side note I always pose to liberals when arguing this subject is to ask the question: What if all the stupid stuff they have forced us to do over the past 2-3 decades has had the opposite effect and initiated a cooling episode on a global basis that will be equally bad or worse than the hysteria they have been spouting about “global warming?” hmmmm???
Their response is classic.
Hope everyone stays warm tonight!!
It seems to me that “man-made” global warming morphed into just plain old global warming a few years back. And where is Al Gore?
Wanna buy some carbon credits? Call Sharpton, Clinton, Jackson and Gore.
We have over a dozen “Global Warming Updates” (pun intended) posted now on CC…
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/01/global-warming-updates.html
mixitup, keep in mind that the left has a long history of genocide. While they line their pockets on each created crisis, grifters that they happen to be or addled from assorted narcotics, killing off a few million here or a few million there is no big thing…it’s a bonus.
Who remembers the name of Gore’s billionaire buddy who said we need to reduce the world’s population by 2/3s?
I remembered. Maurice Strong, known as the ‘environmental George Soros’.
Neat! The US is sending an ice breaker to free the two ice-bound ships. Hopefully, Admiral Algore is at the helm and they can focus Solyndra solar mirrors on the ice and pluck those global warming experts right out of all that melting, disappearing ice. It is summer down there, you know.
Hey, maybe they can position the hole in the ozone to speed things up.
Late in ’12, the Cultural Cognition Project published a survey which found that Americans rated as highly individualistic were the least concerned about climate change, possibly because they tend to value freedom in private markets and industry. More “community-focused” people tend to blame industry for social inequalities and they tend to welcome laws and regulations limiting industry.
The study found something described as “counterintuitive”: the people most knowledgeable about science and who had the best grasp of math and numbers were the least concerned about climate change. They call it counterintuitive, I call it logical.
I lived through Global Cooling and the Coming Ice Age and found that much more frightening than the new Global Warming. The newer Climate Change and Climate Chaos are meaningless. Climate does change and always has–and it has quite often been chaotic.
Until we notice large numbers of people retiring to Alaska from their native Florida, Arizona and California, I think we can safely say that humans prefer warmth to cold. So if the Globe IS Warming, please, let it happen!