{"id":2597,"date":"2010-02-03T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2010-02-03T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:49:43","slug":"turning-a-retreat-into-a-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/turning-a-retreat-into-a-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a retreat into a rout"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESR<\/a> calls for even more naming and shaming of the climate fraudsters:<\/p>\n

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I too long to see the frauds and the fellow-travellers in the hell they\u2019ve earned for themselves. But revenge, while it\u2019s a tasty dish that long-time public \u201cdeniers\u201d like Delingpole and myself are now thoroughly enjoying, isn\u2019t the best reason to hound them and their enabling organizations out of public life. The best reason not to relent, to name and shame the fraudsters and shatter their reputations and humilate them — ideally, to the point where there\u2019s a rash of prominent suicides as a result — is this:<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t destroy them, they\u2019ll surely ramp up yet another<\/em> colossal, politicized eco-fraud to plague us all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s quite right, many of the people deeply involved in the swindle would have been just as happy in another pseudo-scientific attempt to wrest control of the economy in order to “protect us” from ourselves.<\/p>\n

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Any conspiracies in sight? Yes, actually . . .<\/p>\n

Conspiracy #1: Most of the environmental movement is composed of innocent Gaianists, but not all of it. There\u2019s a hard core that\u2019s sort of a zombie remnant of Soviet psyops. Their goals are political: trash capitalism, resurrect socialism from the dustbin of history. They\u2019re actually more like what I have elsewhere called a prospiracy, having lost their proper conspiratorial armature when KGB Department V folded up in 1992. There aren\u2019t a lot of them, but they\u2019re very, very good at co-opting others and they drive the Gaianists like sheep. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s significant overlap with the scientists here; the zombies are concentrated in universities, all right, but mostly in the humanities and grievance-studies departments.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy #2: The hockey team itself. Read the emails. Small, tight-knit, cooperating through covert channels, very focused on destroying its enemies, using false fronts like realclimate.org. There\u2019s your classic conspiracy profile.<\/p>\n

My model of what\u2019s been going on is basically this: The hockey team starts an error cascade that sweeps up a lot of scientists. The AGW meme awakens chiliastic emotional responses in a lot of Gaianists. The zombies and the green-shirts grab onto that quasi-religious wave as a political strategem (the difference is that the zombies actively want to trash capitalism, while the green-shirts just want to hobble and milk it). Pro-AGW scientists get more funding from the green-shirts within governments, which reinforces the error cascade — it\u2019s easier not to question when your grant money would be at risk for doing so. After a few times around this cycle, the hockey team notices it\u2019s riding a tiger and starts on the criminal-conspiracy stuff so it will never have to risk getting off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s lots here . . . go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESR calls for even more naming and shaming of the climate fraudsters: I too long to see the frauds and the fellow-travellers in the hell they\u2019ve earned for themselves. But revenge, while it\u2019s a tasty dish that long-time public \u201cdeniers\u201d like Delingpole and myself are now thoroughly enjoying, isn\u2019t the best reason to hound them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,53],"tags":[245,343,194,240,39],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-politics","tag-climatechange","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fraud","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-FT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}