The last U.S. social movement bearing a striking resemblance to these witless wonders was the prohibition movement in the earlier part of the 20th century. The anti-gun lobby comes in as a pretty close second.
Chicken little and the sky is falling is not only alive and well, but has become one of our greatest enemies of democracy through false emergencies, declared in the name of socialism and totalitarian remedies.
A pox on them all. Soon they will become desperate and commence looking for virgins to toss into volcanos in order to appease the global warming gods of their carbon footprint pantheon.
And in their little socialist camps, they will find none. Conservatives! Hide your daughters!
“...that call me a fraud (for writing about climate science when I’m not a climate scientist), a plagiarist (for citing learned papers rather than making up scare stories), and a liar (for saying I’m a member of the House of Lords when – er – I’m a member of the House of Lords, though, being merely hereditary, I don’t have a seat there).”
I didn’t know Ann Coulter had a brother in New Zealand!
bttt
More:
“..Global Dooming has a very simple explanation. There’s nothing new about it. It is just the human desire to create a millenarian narrative that fits our political biases, whipped on by the Politically Correct elites of this world, fed by a huge infusion of money into climate modeling and other dubious science, plus unprecedented media hype, and finally, the intimidation of thousands of rational skeptics.
This “madness of crowds” happens all the time. Charles MacKay wrote about it in 1841, in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Economics bubbles and busts are just one kind. But we can see a lush diversity of other superstitions and mass delusions.
It is a shame that it is now corrupting normal science. In healthy science the burden of proof is always on the proposer of any hypothesis. But now the burden of proof on the skeptics in the case of human-caused global warming. But you can’t prove a negative. As soon as the skeptics disprove one false claim, the Global Fraudsters are allowed to jump to another one, as long as they predict the same conclusion.
In real science the deck is never stacked against the skeptics. Rational skeptics are welcomed when people know what they are talking about. They can only help to sharpen the issues.
So this is not a scientific debate any more. Like the real estate bubble, the sub-prime mortgage bubble, the Year 2000 bubble and all the rest, there are billions of dollars riding on the outcome of the Global Doom scenarios. That’s why all those expensive folks lived it up in Bali, with their private jets, luxury hotels, and massive carbon footprint. [...]” ~ James Lewis
Complete commentary here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/the_algorism_of_global_doom.html