Left-wing Env. Scientist Bails Out Of Global Warming Movement:-- a 'corrupt social phenomenon

Climate Depot ^ | July 26, 2010 | Marc Morano

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Yes. It’s obvious that Al Gore learned something at divinity school (even though he flunked out). I’ve often said that he deserves a DD, for having started a whole new religion.

[SuziQ]

“You have this army of university scientists and they have to pretend like they are doing important research without ever criticizing the powerful interests in a real way. So what do they look for, they look for elusive sanitized things like acid rain, global warming,” he added. This entire process “helps to neutralize any kind of dissent,” according to Rancourt.

The University scientists are just hungry for grant money, and will try to make happy anyone who will give it to them. If the government wants research on human caused global warming, the scientists will comply. They most certainly won't go against the 'conventional wisdom', because by doing so, they're biting the hand that feeds them.

[SuziQ]

Cockburn harshly critiqued the political left for embracing climate alarmism. "This turn to climate catastrophism is tied into the decline of the left, and the decline of the left's optimistic vision of altering the economic nature of things through a political program. The left has bought into environmental catastrophism because it thinks that if it can persuade the world that there is indeed a catastrophe, then somehow the emergency response will lead to positive developments in terms of social and environmental justice,"

He confirms what many on the right have thought all along.

[Army Air Corps]

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[pieceofthepuzzle]

You’re so right about the effect ‘getting paid by liberals’ has on what you say publicly. Hollywood is one example, but this is rampant in academia. One of the least ‘free speech’ environments in the US is at liberal Universities.

[ModelBreaker]

“a ‘corrupt social phenomenon...strictly an imaginary problem of the 1st World middleclass’ “

This is not quite correct. It is an imaginary problem of the 1st world ruling class.

[casuist]

The political class is doing what they always do - surfing the wave. I maintain that if Bill Clinton had been governor of Arkansas in 1957 instead of Orville Faubus, he would have been the one standing in the schoolhouse door. Instead, he was tearfully experiencing non-existent church burnings. The hallmark of a successful politician is an agile moral compass, not too firmly guided by any durable principle other than election and re-election.

Yes, elections are a chief concern among the elected, and our political classes are comprised of more than just these, because our government consists in a vanishing small minority of elected legislators and executives atop a massive leviathan of administrators and administrations with interests of their own, apart from, and often in opposition to, the elected and their periodic elections, and these other members enjoy a sound, coherent, and concrete moral compass, a moral compass whose first principle is a sublime faith in the efficacy of political agency over any other sector of human activity. For them, we all stand in want of their supervision lest we err and stray from our ways like the lost sheep that, in their imaginations, we are.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Politicans cater to the whims and fancies of the chattering classes - the press and government administrators and the leisure class, those whims and fancies often shaped by the feckless professorate of our more expensive schools.

[casuist]

Agreed.

[editor-surveyor]

About time we get a little bit of honesty out of academia.
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[Madame Dufarge]

Ping.

[Reeses]

Gore “strikes me as someone working for someone -- as someone who will financially benefit from this. He does not give me impression of someone who genuinely cares about environmental or social justice.

This highlights an effective way to fight leftists: get them to envy those on their own side. It's not hard to do because envy is what drives leftism and so many Gulfstream environmentalists hide out over there for the purpose of envy deflection.

Greens are souring on AGW now because there are so many expensive products being hawked. They can't keep up with the Jones anymore. The $30,000 Prius was bad enough, now it's bamboo flooring, green kitchen, bath upgrade, etc.