Hippies at Mother Jones have thrown in the towel, cried Uncle, folded like a cheap suit and picked up their ball and gone home.
In a piece entitled ‘How the Climate Change Deniers Won‘, Mother Jones details how the global warming agenda failed, in a handy cut-out and keep chart that reads like a veritable cornucopia of everyone the left loves to hate.
Here’s the chart, click to enlarge:
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Everyone’s in there. The Koch Brothers, Big Oil, the US Chamber of Commerce, even Blogs (!) get the blame. But while we thank them for the recognition, Mother Jones is too generous by only calling-out those on the skeptical side. Let’s face it, winning something as grand as the argument over man-made global warming was a bipartisan effort. Without generous help and commitment from within the warmist camp, this day would never have been possible.
We don’t have time to list all those who contributed, but we’ll highlight some of the stars:
Al Gore. Despite spending $300 million to convince the world that a trace gas essential to life on Earth was a ‘crisis’, Al could never quite bring himself to live in the style he demanded of others. His selfless devotion to consumption did more to persuade the average Joe that if the weather was a real crisis, Al might rein in his chakra, or his spending, or sell a house or two. Thanks, Al.
Phil Jones and the Motley CRU. Who could doubt the contribution from the giant intellects who worked to ‘hide the decline‘ and apply ‘Mike’s Nature trick‘ at the University of East Anglia? Without their selfless devotion to dodgy computer models and destroying the reputations of those who dared to compromise their funding disagree, the average Joe may have thought climate science was populated by serious men with inquiring minds.
Michael Mann and the hockey stick. Without his selfless devotion to fighting FOIA requests for his data, the average Joe may never have pondered the eternal question, ‘what’s he got to hide?‘
The IPCC. The UN’s climate body selflessly devoted itself to basing reports on press releases from radical NGO’s, over-exaggeration of the impacts of global warming and, of course, mistakes like Himalayagate. Without the efforts of Raj Pachauri et al, the average Joe may have taken the UN seriously and believed polar bears were melting, or something.
Weepy Bill McKibben, David Suzuki and all the activists who clambered onto the global warming bandwagon to air their grievance du jour. Without their selfless devotion to bombarding the populace with a relentless barrage of doom and gloom, the average Joe may have never gotten crisis fatigue. We salute them all.
Many heroes of the climate movement have gone unrecognized for their part in the collapse of the global warming scam, feel free to add your favorite in the comments.
The Round-up returns tomorrow, if you can stand it.
What, you thought I forgot the Weepy Bill Google juice? As if.
Anne Hathaway, take it away:
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Lot of wasted time on that chart. They could have just said “all rational people are against us” and left it at that.
Can I add 10-10 to the list? The “no pressure” film did more to illustrate the intentions of the warmists than 1000 peer review journals.
Don’t forget our beloved US Communicator-in-Chief, with his promise to “roll back the oceans”, not to mention the ever widening scandals in his program of ‘loans’ and grafts..er, grants…for renewable energy boondoggles and the dozens of new jobs they provide.
Oh, just for fun, let me nominate:
a) ‘Travesty’ Trenberth for his inspired reversal of the null hypothesis (did that come because he realised he was losing?).
b) Patchy the Pornographer in his own right for his (frequent) doughty defence of the indefensible.
Oh, and, FWIW, I agree with him totally (except that I think cAGW is a scam).
Lomborg was never a sceptic. He accepts AGW. He merely believes in different priorities than the dedicated warmista (e.g., IIRC, he thinks dealing with malaria and providing clean water are more important than ‘mitigation’)
Overheard backstage during the climate reality project, as Gore walked past-
“We who are about to cry, salute you!”
My heroes from the Other Side are Babble Botoxer and Obama’s homunculus, Lisa Lisa Lisa Jackson for this…
http://cbullitt.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/boxer-jackson-admit-epas-co2-finding-based-on-fail/
Apparently, the EPA’s own Inspector General has now discover the same. Better late than never:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/28/epas-greenhouse-gas-science-didnt-follow-its-own-peer-review-procedure-ig-says/
Oh, I’m stealing that chart because I’m. Not. On. It. Dammit.
Let us not forget Stephen Schneider, whose Nancy Pelosi moment was captured by The Economist as follows:
The fuss over Mr Lomborg highlights an attitude among some media-conscious scientists that militates not just against good policy but against the truth. Stephen Schneider, one of Scientific American’s anti-Lomborgians, spoke we suspect not just for himself when he told Discover in 1989: “[We] are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place…To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have…Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” In other words, save science for other scientists, in peer-reviewed journals and other sanctified places. In public, strike a balance between telling the truth and telling necessary lies.
http://www.economist.com/node/965718
Let us not forget those folks on the “other side” who actually tried to do real science and came up with results that the fanatics couldn’t handle. Bjorn Lomborg, whom The Independent called “The world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic”, comes to mind.
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