Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Junk Science, Politics | Tags: Copenhagen, Green Porn, Leftist Lies
Here is the unbelievable propaganda that was shown at the opening of the Copenhagen climate extravaganza, aimed at the true-believers. I find it thoroughly disgusting. More ecological porn, making use of little children. Save the world, indeed!
ClimateGate is to be brushed aside. Nothing to see here, just move along. The Greens have far too much invested in their efforts to control the world, and they aren’t going to let little things like science and accuracy get in the way.
Anthony Watts has a new post up by Willis Eschenbach, on Australian data:
People keep saying “Yes, the Climategate scientists behaved badly. But that doesn’t mean the data is bad. That doesn’t mean the earth is not warming.”
This is becoming as fascinating as a good thriller. It is the data that IS bad. And it is bad because it was deliberately made so. Lots of adjusting, homogenizing, nudging. If they can maintain an atmosphere of fear of catastrophic warming, then grants will flow, people will think that climate science is something special, salaries will increase, prestige, glory. One might become famous, win a Nobel. Of course we must save the earth. Where is Mitch Rapp when you really need him?
Information technology people who have looked at the code from CRU and understand what they are looking at (not me!) are astounded by the poor quality of the code, lack of professionalism, and sloppiness of the code.
It all seems to be spinning out of control. Copenhagen: 140 private jets, 1,200 limousines, ecological porn, free prostitutes and lots of caviar.
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Economy, Education, History, Liberalism, Media Bias, Socialism, The Constitution, Uncategorized | Tags: Democrat Demagogues, Disappearing Freedoms, Fighting Back, Leftist Lies
Thomas Sowell wrote a rousing column today, as he usually does.
Most people on the Left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.
Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of. Nazis were free to be Nazis under Hitler. It is only when you are able to do things that other people don’t approve that you are free.
One of the most innocent-sounding examples of the Left’s many impositions of its vision on others is the widespread requirement by schools and by college-admissions committees that students do “community service.”
There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate, and colleges where your application for admission will not be accepted, unless you have engaged in activities arbitrarily defined as “community service.”
The arrogance of commandeering young people’s time, instead of leaving them and their parents free to decide for themselves how to use that time, is exceeded only by the arrogance of imposing your own notions as to what is or is not a service to the community.
Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service” — as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.
Obama has mentioned that college kids working in the college library or hashing in a dining room are not considered community service, while dishing up food in a cafeteria for vagrants is. Explain that one.
According to campaign promises and statements, by 2012, four years from now, over one half of the population will pay no taxes, and be supported by the other half who work. This is not freedom.
Dr. Sowell goes on:
Supposedly students are to get a sense of compassion or noblesse oblige from serving others. But this all depends on who defines compassion. In practice, it means forcing students to undergo a propaganda experience to make them receptive to the Left’s vision of the world.
I am sure those who favor “community service” requirements would understand the principle behind the objections to this if high-school military exercises were required.
Indeed, many of those who promote compulsory “community service” activities are bitterly opposed to even voluntary military training in high schools or colleges, though many other people regard military training as more of a contribution to society than feeding people who refuse to work.
In other words, people on the left want the right to impose their idea of what is good for society on others — a right that they vehemently deny to those whose idea of what is good for society differs from their own.
I think we are in need of an ongoing conversation about what is meant by “freedom”, how we preserve it, and how we lose it. And how we go about regaining our freedom if it is lost.
