Enviro-Nutters Global warming: A new claim will follow damaging news
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14 February 2010
global warming establishment?
In the ups and downs of the political struggle regarding global warming, the 'establishment' (or activist, warmist, alarmist-pick your adjective) team has often found itself faced with bad news. The science moves at its own pace, and this is very inconvenient for politicians and promoters with specific deadlines and agendas. So each 'team' has good weeks and bad weeks. Or months.
This has been a very bad three months for the establishment team. Climategate. Copenhagen. Conflicts of interest. Cold weather. Glaciergate. Africagate. Recantations and incantations. A very bad three months.
If past behaviour is any indication, the establishment is working right now on some sort of announcement that recasts the threat to the world from global warming in some new, dire light. In the past, they have used Greenland melt, malaria, ocean acidification and other scientific findings to recover from bad news cycles. All of these (and other) issues had been kicking around in the scientific archives, but were dusted off and put on center stage to revive the sense of fear that politicians and promoters need to induce in us all in order to keep the 'movement' going. (I am very specifically not talking about scientists here, although they do get recruited or co-opted to assist in presenting these new threats.)
I do not know what will be the new scare story, but a new scare story there will be, probably trotted out before the end of this month. This will cause many critics of their position to drop what they're doing to go and investigate these new claims, which will reduce the torrent of criticism the establishment is now receiving.
It's a political game, and not unique to global warming. One hopes that there is a law of diminishing returns that will eventually result in this tactic being abandoned. Maybe this time.
Okay, so eleven brownie points will be awarded to the commenter who correctly predicts the next scare story from the global warming establishment. Any takers?
Steve Mosher and I have written a book about the leaked emails that have caused so much controversy. The title is Climategate: The CRUtape Letters. It is available on Create Space here, Amazon here, Kindle here and Lulu here. One Amazon reviewer wrote, "Mosher and Fuller do a good job putting the ClimateGate documents in context, and the book is a riveting read. I received my copy yesterday, and find the book to be faithful to the climate war events that I have followed over a period of years. It reports actual email communications of a small group of paleoclimatologists and their roles in perhaps the biggest scientific hoax since Piltdown Man."
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