I’ve been able to spend the past couple days focusing on recent balderdash coming from Watts Up With That, the premiere Anthropogenic Global Warming denial website - triggered by Anthony Watts yet again championing Lord Monckton and his potty mouth stream of invective, twisted misquotes, misrepresentations and out and out lying about scientific studies and their implications.
They {I’m including perennial (paid?) commenters such as “Smokey”} are busy pumping up the meme that CO2 is good for the Earth and that the more we can pump into the atmosphere the better. All the while ignoring that our planet’s climate has been experiencing quite a stable and benign phase for the past ten thousand some odd years, without which society and civilization could not have flourished.
Also ignoring that it isn’t Earth that is in trouble, rather it is the foundations of our society that depends on consistent benign weather patterns.
The worst part is the utter ruthlessness of their dialogue, every established climatologist is treated like a criminal, while dilettante’s such as Monckton are hoisted on a pedestal despite a clear record of deceit, if not a total disconnect from the real world {after all Monckton has also announced he’s developed a cure for AIDS} - simple because they support a faith-based position that nothing should be done to reign-in GHG emissions or to disturb the status quo “corporate free market” paradigm.
I bring this up because in another thread “Faith” is being held up as a great virtue.
My question: What good is “Faith” when it forces people to willfully ignore the reality going on around them?
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http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2012/01/wuwt-champions-and-cheers-moncktons.html
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-mock-monck-wuwt-112011-anthonys.html