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May 13, 2007
Even Some Moonbats Have Had Enough Global Warming Malarkey
Is this an example of even a stopped clock being right twice a day? Or is it that even barking moonbats have limits to how much Kool-Aid they can swallow? Alexander Cockburn, a patient at the loony-left mental asylum known as The Nation, has opened fire on the global warming hoax.
Here's what he has to say about the tedious claim that anyone who won't believe in the Goracle's apocalyptic fantasies is in the pay of Big Oil:
No response is more predictable than the reflexive squawk of the greenhouse fearmongers that anyone questioning their claims is in the pay of the energy companies. […] Actually, the energy companies have long since adapted to prevailing fantasies, dutifully reciting the whole catechism about carbon neutrality, repositioning themselves as eager pioneers in the search for alternative fuels[…] In fact, when it comes to corporate sponsorship of crackpot theories about why the world is getting warmer, the best documented conspiracy of interest is between the fearmongers and the nuclear industry, now largely owned by oil companies, whose prospects twenty years ago looked dark. The apex fearmongers are well aware that the only exit from the imaginary crisis they have been sponsoring is through a big door marked "nuclear power," with a servants' side door labeled "clean coal."
As for the Goracle himself:
The world's best-known hysteric and self-promoter on the topic of man's physical and moral responsibility for global warming is Al Gore, a shill for the nuclear and coal barons from the first day he stepped into Congress entrusted with the sacred duty to protect the budgetary and regulatory interests of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Oak Ridge National Lab. […] As a denizen of Washington since his diaper years, Gore has always understood that threat inflation is the surest tool to plump budgets and rouse voters.
The bureaucratic cabal known as the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gets harsh treatment too:
The IPCC has the usual army of functionaries and grant farmers and the merest sprinkling of actual scientists with the prime qualification of being climatologists or atmospheric physicists.
Then there are the computer models that conveniently predict whatever the Goracle and his bureauweenie acolytes want them to:
These are multibillion-dollar computer modeling bureaucracies as intent on self-preservation and budgetary enhancement as cognate nuclear bureaucracies at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. They are as unlikely to develop models refuting the hypothesis of human-induced global warming as is the IPCC to say the weather is getting a little bit warmer but there's no great cause for alarm. Threat inflation is their business.
To make the computer predictions appear to bear some relationship to reality, data must be tweaked. He quotes Richard Kerr of Science Magazine:
Climate modelers have been "cheating" for so long it's almost become respectable.
Summing up the global warming situation, Cockburn astutely predicts that
vast sums of money will be uselessly spent on programs that won't work against an enemy that doesn't exist.
Like everyone else at The Nation, Cockburn has some loose screws in his head. He even seems to believe that the people who provide us with the energy we need are doing something bad. But at least he's figured out that global warming is a sham. With luck the public will too, before bureaucrats are able to cripple the economy all of us rely on for survival.
On a tip from Bergbikr.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 13, 2007 10:24 PM
Comments
This guy better have someone else start his car in the morning... and hire body guards. The Moonbats dont take kindly to dissention within their ranks.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 14, 2007 5:05 AM
I can't hardly believe it. Reading the whole article now.
Posted by: Brian at May 14, 2007 6:57 AM
Wait, you say those contemptuous of global warming are in the pay of Big Oil? Then where the hell is my check?
Maybe there is something to this global warming business...I might just have to reconsider my views (he says, glancing significantly towards Houston).
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 14, 2007 9:24 AM
LOL! Cockburn.... that name just has to be made up...
Posted by: Anonymous at May 14, 2007 10:59 AM
Cockburn? Is that what you get when you don't use enough lube?
Posted by: Archonix at May 14, 2007 11:39 AM
Cockburn? Is that what you get when you don't use enough lube?
Achronix: It's what you get after packing too much fudge without lube.
Posted by: Doug at May 14, 2007 1:43 PM
Cockburn? I dunno, ask Barney Frank, Im sure he knows. Tee hee hee, har, har, har!!!
Posted by: Anonymous at May 14, 2007 5:20 PM
