“I am absolutely dismayed. This kind of fallacious, juvenile and inflammatory rhetoric does nothing to enhance your reputation, hands your opponents a huge stick to beat you with, and sullies the reputation of the speakers you had recruited.”
The same could said for most advertising.
But is it not public service to make general public aware of the possible extent of how crazy the CAGW people are?
The issue is simply most people don’t want to be taxed for billions or trillions of dollar, because CO2 may make the world a bit more warmer.
It might be interesting debate for nerds.
But people in general are only going to care if there something important regarding CO2 emissions.
Hence the people who want to increase taxes- for numerous reasons,
wish to say that driving your car, will end life on the planet.
There is no shortage of people have been brainwashed into thinking that being moderate is the ideal state of being. These people are providing evidence that they are stupid. No moderate position has ever been correct.
Halving the difference to between to two positions, will be wrong.
E.g. slavery vs freedom. One is right and one is wrong. Saying some people should free and some shouldn’t is wrong.
To say, this debate can’t resolved, and there more important issue that can and should be resolved is on the other hand perfectly logical.
But being in the middle and halving the difference is the stupidity of a moderate and plague of modern society.
Being a moderate to the like of Hansen and Al Gore, is paying a robber half the money he demands. Or being half as crazy.
New York city isn’t going be 10 feet under water. We not measurably closer to the Greenland melting as we were 1000 or 5000 years ago.
And if one wants to talk about Antarctic melting one even going deeper into fantasy land.
The theme of these beliefs is that humans of today are worse off than humans a century, or 10 centuries, or 1000 centuries in the past.
That technology is the cause of this worsening or the destruction of this world. This is the belief of the Unabomber. And is same belief of Osama Bin Laden. And many people are taught this religion.
This pseudo science of course appears scientific. But there no rational assessment that supports this conclusion.
It’s a myth. Like all myths one could say there some things “true” about it.
There is also another myth regarding an idea that humans are progressing, that humans are on a path of destiny or habit or tendency is towards ever increasing improvement- as if human were a machine that going in one direction.
An idiot moderate would split these two “ideas”. They are both wrong and halving the difference isn’t an improvement.
Thing about the progressive view which wrong is the idea, that progress accidentally happens. And that humans are improving- that the human soul or body is improving.
Humans are not starving as much, they living longer. Many diseases can be cured. But the animal which is human is not evolving.
The caveman wasn’t a better human than modern human nor is it worse. The cavemen wasn’t nicer, or kinder, nor more rude or meaner. Though obviously the culture as evolved- we have different rules, we do things things differently.
The culture is evolving [it's changing- rather than improving] and doing so at blinding speed, culture is dependent upon education. Not to be confused as same as public school education- there no blinding speed here.
I would say the modern America could not make document from scratch as good as the American Constitution. I think this is proven fact, considering American’s involvement in the construction of other countries constitutions.
Why this is the case is debatable- the circumstances and selection of who was involved. That were not appointed by a some general, a president or king. Etc.
My point isn’t we are worst off, now, but rather to indicate there has not being huge strides, in terms of “social awareness” or “cultural awareness”.
So we are not diving into darkness nor climbing rapidly towards the light
in terms of general culture or biologically. But science continues to make progress, and the technological advancement is remarkable over the centuries and recently. This is not the cause of all the problems, they making life better. And will continue to do so.
What has been a problem are ideological, particularly ideologies which are pseudo science- e.g, Marxism. something pretending to be science which is actually anti-science. Not democratic, truth established political bodies/authority, and lacking any means of correction or feedback- does theory match reality.
