Yup, a war. A war, that since Climategate 1.0, they are obviously losing. We are witnessing the collapse of a paradigm. A war with ever more desperate tactics with outright propaganda that they do not even try to disguise anymore. If we had a media worth its salt, we would already be witnessing an explosion the world has never beheld, but with the media on their side, we will only witness a slow quiet death before the next great crisis. The good news is slowly over time, we will be able to watch a really cool nature show without the obligatory last 10 minutes of “All the stuff you just witnessed is now under extreme threat from Climate Change”. We may be able to buy Scientific American again, without being bombarded with AGW propaganda even in the most unrelated article. Rest assured, the attention span and memory of the world has the duration of one fruit fly life cycle, so soon there will be a new catastrophe (ocean acidification) that can only be solved by a massive transfer of wealth to democrat campaign bundlers and third world dictators, but it will take time for the new crisis to stick, so we will get at least a short breather.
Though I am sick to death of the non-stop global warming religion propaganda, I am a little bit thankful for it...because I was able to learn a little bit about a cornucopia of subjects related to our natural world through years of daily reading of websites like WattsUpWithThat.Com, ClimateAudit.Com, JoAnneNova.Com and many others. All of which, including TallBlokes site just did a clean sweep of the best science blog awards, with not one alarmist site such as RealClimate even getting a mention.
This has been a good week
Great point.
“We may be able to buy Scientific American again” ? ?
Not until the cows come home. I remember reading Scientific American for the first time in the library while in the 10th grade. There were articles on how to build one’s own X-ray machine, and that was my science project, ‘cept that the school was in Carbondale, Colorado and it was 1958/59.
No Internet meant no way to find the rare tube needed for the project. As I read the magazine in following years I realized that a complete change had occurred, in that it was less oriented towards science and more “activist” infested. Given that “Dead Tree” media is collapsing, I’d suggest Scientific American is about gone because it is hardly scientific and is more anti-American than American.