OpenMarket » Film reviewer @ CHUD.com goes foaming at the mouth over global warming: "It never ceases to amaze me how some people go apoplectic when it comes to global warming. I emailed out a press release this morning on today’s DVD release of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis offered some point-by-point refutations of some of Gore’s claims in the documentary. Legitimate, science-based critiques. Nothing hateful or ad hominem about it. Yet the site manager of CHUD.com, a movie review site, went all rabid about it, hurling invective and hateful comments at me. You’d think I poisoned his dog or something. Since when do legitimate policy disputes merit that sort of response?"
Of course, the answer is that this isn't a "legitimate policy dispute" in the eyes of the people who want to silence "global waming deniers."
By the way, here's one of the CHUD.com responses, and not the harshest one:
Sorry, I get rude about receiving flat out bullshit and nonsense in my email. Fuck you and all the people like you who are in any way, shape or form involved in disinformation campaigns that will ruin the lives of generations to come. Non-partisan my ass.
Get cancer.
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Well, Al Gore is certainly scaring the kiddies. He ought to make a movie about what an enormous mis-application of resources he himself is.
It's all in the "power of suggestion". For an example of that power, smell these roses.
About a year ago a highschool friend of mine working in Silicon Valley called. It turned out that he had been spending time between jobs working with a global warming group. When he discovered I was a skeptic he became nervous and uncomfortable and soon said goodbye. For context, I mention that this fellow was also a big believer in Paul Erlich and The Population Bomb and he was sure Julian Simon had made a losing bet.
Global Warming is far more than a climate hypothesis to these people, it is a measure of one's morality. I find it all as mystifying as BDS. It's probably some combination of displacement and pointless lives. Pointless lives being a product of the destruction of the traditional family and religion and the displacement being triggered by 9/11. We live in crazy times.
I might mention that my friend is very bright and mathematically talented. But as far as I can tell he has never had an original thought about history or the nature of man and when liberal pieties are involved his critical faculties lie down and stay like a good dog.
It's a congregational, therapeutic approach to coping with all those vague, flitting doom-images in the back of the mind, back there in the dark scary places. BDS, 911 Conspiracy, Man-Manipulable Global Warming, thousands of cattle in Montana surgically eviscerated by the light of the full moon. Ghost Dancing for the return of the Good Times. Global-warming fanatics are terrified people.
Hey, it's easy.
Kyoto came before 9/11 so it takes precedence.
:)
They must figure, maybe subconsciously, that the ultimate controlling legal authority that will be needed to control our atmosphere, will also take away all their fears of uncertainty. They want to return to the womb, and get terribly angry--like infants--when thwarted.
...will also take away all their fears of uncertainty.
I figure that everyone likes a good crusade. Heck, what are the Islamists engaged in? Yep, a crusade. Promises of glory and fighting the good fight attract young men. I suppose the ultimate prize is women, either in the afterlife, acquired through rape and pillage, or as the just reward of the righteous. So Mohammed got it right with those seventy virgins.
The real guestion is, what's in it for the old farts. Influence and power, I suppose. And trophy wives.
uhh, "relevance"? (*sob*)
They already live in the One World.
I wonder if they will outgrow this silliness?
the thing that pisses me off about most of these people is that they live the lifestyle they are so eager to criticize. Their goal in life seems to be to make sure that the people in the third world go on living in pristine poverty while they themselves are not unduly inconvenienced.
I read State of Fear by Chrichton and while he might be writing fiction he has the personalities down pretty well.
Loons, get cancer, that is nice.
Pointless lives being a product of the destruction of the traditional family and religion and the displacement being triggered by 9/11.
Really? I thought it the product of having internet access.
and cellphones. don't forget the cellphones.
me too--like Mark Twain with tobacco, I quit all the time--
Also, at its heart the global warming hysteria involves the premise that not only is humanity causing this via its luxurious and wasteful ways, but humans can also control the weather too. In its most histrionic forms, it is the worship of "ME"--"I" am the center of the universe. It is the techno combination of communism with narcissism--an odd couple to be sure.
When I bought my farm I got it for next to nothing in large part because the old house on it had been abandond. No water or elec, none of that.
I got up at the crack of dawn and stoked the fires. My husband cut only knows how much wood so that we would not freeze to death. We even had a cook stove and yes I used it. We had a spring and a pump and an outhouse for awhile.
I defy any of these prissy little global warming people to live through a couple of good old North American winters like that and still spout this crap.
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