Posted on 02/25/2014 12:49:13 PM PST by neverdem
This article originally appeared on heartland.org.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sunk to climate McCarthyism last week, calling scientists at NASA, NOAA, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, and other prestigious research institutions “shoddy scientists” and members of “the Flat Earth Society” because they don’t agree with Kerry and President Barack Obama on global warming issues.
Fortunately for science, and unfortunately for Kerry, the Scientific Method encourages rather than blackballs critical inquiry and scientific debate. If that were not the case, people would indeed still believe the Earth is flat. Even so, more than 31,000 scientists have signed a summary of the science explaining why humans are not creating a global warming crisis. A survey of more than 1,800 atmospheric scientists in the American Meteorological Society shows less than half believe humans are the primary cause of recent warming. Comprehensive scientific summaries presented by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change reveal thousands of peer-reviewed studies contradict the alarmist global warming narrative. And scientific organizations such as the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences dispute the notion that humans are causing a global warming crisis, while others such as the American Physical Society point out that scientists are sharply split on the issue.
This leads us to the Biggest Lie of alarmist global warming myths: the assertion that 97 percent of scientists agree humans are causing a global warming crisis. The closest thing to actual evidence supporting such a claim is a couple of “surveys” conducted by global warming alarmists asking a cherry-picked group of their peers whether (1) the Earth has warmed during the past 100 years, since the Little Ice Age ended and (2) whether humans have played a role in the warming. The two questions are meaningless in the global warming debate, as neither of these questions addresses the issues dividing alarmists and skeptics. This is like citing a survey in which 97 percent of doctors agree people should seek professional medical attention for serious ailments, and then making a misleading and unsubstantiated jump in logic to assert that 97 percent of doctors support Obamacare.
But climate McCarthyism isn’t about analyzing scientific evidence and comparing scientific theories. It is about telling scientific falsehoods and then having political kingpins preemptively denounce and insult honorable scientists at the world’s most prestigious research institutions by calling them “shoddy scientists” and members “of the Flat Earth Society” simply because the scientists disagree with the politicians.
99% of all North Koreans vote for the dear leader.
But, Kerry served in Vietnam!! ;-)
We'll have to agree to disagree, wideawake. It's looking better than .900.
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The Senate committee that was determined to censure McCarthy ended up having to drop the matter of McCarthy’s Wheeling speech entirely. A fact-filled memo detailing the committee’s findings concluded that McCarthy had said he had the names of 57 security risks, not 205.The truth about McCarthy’s Wheeling speech, including the committee’s memo finding that McCarthy was telling the truth, and a newspaper article reprinting the speech before it became a object of obsession by Democrats, is given in M. Stanton Evans’ monumental book, “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.”
Moreover, contrary to the nonsense about McCarthy not being able to name the 57 specific individuals, the very day he got back to Washington, he gave a six-hour speech on the Senate floor, providing details about the problematic State Department employees, chapter and verse. He did not “name names” because that was not his point.
As McCarthy said, some State Department employees with communist associations might be innocent. His point was: The Democrats were still refusing to take Soviet espionage seriously by investigating these preposterous risks on the government payroll.
Far from recklessly smearing people, McCarthy described each employee as a “case” and cited such evidence as their being identified as Soviet spies in FBI reports, by fellow spies and by the State Department itself. He reported their connections to known agents, attendance at “Youth International” meetings in Russia and repeated contacts with known Soviet espionage groups.
These were not baseless charges. And as we now know, they were absolutely true.
McCarthy is one of the greatest men in american history.
All things considered, the McCarthy legacy was a strengthened Soviet operation against the USA. Of course, part of their success was their ability to depend upon the American press for high level support.
Jack Kennedy? Fervent McCarthy supporter.
All those shoddy scientists are a disgrace to Science! Now that fellow Lysenko was the model for what a scientist should be.
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Traditional science... yes.
But liberal 'science' -no. In liberal science facts are dependent on being popular. If an idea sounds cool - and everyone who's an A-lister luvs it - then it's 'settled'... and no one can debate it.
You have gotten a full ration of blowback over the use of the term "McCarthyism" in the article. The fundamental problem is that "McCarthyism" is Newspeak - but then, so is "liberal" and "moderate" and "progressive" and "centrist" - and also "conservative."Before the 1920s, the word "liberal" applied to anyone who is now called "conservative." Its meaning was inverted in the 1920s (according to Safire's New Political Dictionary). American "conservatism" conserves freedom and the ability to do different things - a strange form of "conservatism." "Liberals" and "progressives" and "centrists" and "moderates" - all names for the same political sentiments - want to leave the coal, petroleum, natural gas, etc. in the ground right where it is. Just like Prince Philip does. And that is a strange form of "progressivism."
There is one unifying theme to all this Newspeak: none of it could have happened if it were opposed by journalism. In fact, it's pretty obvious that journalism had to onboard and pushing for these Newspeak word meanings. Why is journalism unified?
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsAccording to that saying, the Associated Press newswire - constituting as it does a continual virtual meeting of all major American news organizations for over a century and a half - must have resulted in a conspiracy against the public long ago.Why would journalism specifically conspire against Republicans, and against people who get things done? I put it to you that, if not constrained by competition, journalism naturally embraces the the idea, not that "It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena," but the opposite proposition that nothing actually matters except PR.
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