Monday, December 07, 2009

How the Warmist Inquisition Differs from the Spanish Inquisition

In short, there is no underlying moral code upon which you can call to slow down the purges, attacks, manipulations, lies and threats. When faced with Christian nuts going overboard, one could always draw from the Bible and bring forth hundreds of quotes from Jesus telling them to love their neighbors, forgive others and show kindness towards their opponents. The global warming fanatics have no such foundation and can continue to do whatever it takes to suppress, threaten and distort.

Dig this emailed threat to global warming mouthpiece Andy Revkin of the New York Times from Michael Schlesinger, a global warming fanatic from the University of Illinois.
This is the second time this week I have written you thereon, the first about giving space in your blog to the Pielkes.
The vibe that I am getting from here, there and everywhere is that your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists.
Of course, your blog is your blog.
But, I sense that you are about to experience the 'Big Cutoff' from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.
Over the past week, I've read plenty of examples of scientists who are now coming out of the woodwork to claim that they, too, have been suppressed. But what of it? Why stop? What is the underlying moral framework upon which you can call to stop the threats? There is none.

Modern science has foolishly wandered off into agnosticism or atheism. With no moral precepts to guide their behavior, they are free to do whatever they can get away with. And a properly chastened Andy Revkin, representative of the MSM as a whole, is willing to let them get away with quite a lot.

With nothing larger than their own egos, their hunger for larger and larger research grants and their vision of being global, environmental messiahs, there's no reason why the ends shouldn't justify the means.

Update: The Wall Street Journal has a terrific piece today comparing skeptics claims with global warming believers. It gives a pretty fair comparison of the two and is moderately convincing in favor of man-made global warming.

6 comments:

tim eisele said...

So, maybe I'm missing something, but isn't that "threat" kind of on the order of, "I'm through talking to you, and I'm going to try to persuade other people not to talk to you, too! And we won't give you any money, either! Nya Nya Nya!"

Oooo, big threat! That's certainly scary! Right up there with BREAKING HIM ON THE RACK TO EXTRACT A CONFESSION, AND THEN BURNING HIM ALIVE!

Yep. RIGHT up there.

K T Cat said...

Oh please, you're being way too dramatic. We haven't used the rack in months!

:-)

K T Cat said...

As a serious response to your comment, I'd suggest that many of the plans to combat warming will indeed cause a lot of people all over the world a lot of pain.

Niall Mor said...

I hope you'll forgive the off-topic comment, but I was leaving a comment on another blog, and the verification word was "aquakin." That suggested the following capchadefs:

1) A small, unbelievably cute undersea creature, as in: "Hi, I'm an aquakin. Hug me!"

2) Your relatives who live underwater, as in: "Yeah, they're my aquakin, but I only see 'em about once a year at Thanksgiving."

K T Cat said...

Niall, aquakin could be a Mafia term for "family members what sleep with da fishes!"

:-)

Dean said...

Linked!