Manne uses Holocaust to smear sceptical scientists

Robert Manne, a Jewish academic, wants to use the Holocaust dead to smear sceptics who dare see evidence that man may not be heating the world disastrously:

Scepticism is in general, as it should be, a positive word, denoting scientific or humanistic curiosity and in particular the presence of an open mind… Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

Manne’s deliberate use of the smear over reasoned argument - and of such a smear! - shows not just a despicable lack of the respect for the victims of the Holocaust, but a contempt for the facts and for the very many prominent scientists who sincerely advance them, and understand the issue rather better than does this political scientist.

Not surprisingly, given Manne’s record as a propagandist of the “stolen generations”, his account of the history of scepticism on man-made apocalyptic warming is also historically inaccurate.

UPDATE

On the same video, Gaian preacher Clive Hamilton (another non-scientist of the far Left) not only endorses Manne’s use of the term “denialism”, but urges believers to attack sceptics as the kind of people who’d deny smoking causes cancer, too.

And, like Manne, he rewrites history - and in a way that reflects an astonishing lack of self-awareness as he purports to explain the origins of this evil scepticism:

They lie in the reaction of American conservatives to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991… The energy that conservatives put into opposing communism sought other outlets...

Let us rewrite this to make the statement far closer to the historical reality of the origins of Hamilton’s new green faith:

They lie in the reaction of American conservatives the Left to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991… The energy that conservatives anti-capitalists put into opposing building communism sought other outlets...

Here’s the real concern with these two amateurs, so free to demonise the real experts: both are academics who teach students.

UPDATE

Atmospheric researcher Lucia Liljegren shows how scientists accidently make hockey sticks from trees. Or, to better explain, she shows that selecting tree ring data that best fits recent temperature measurements tends to give you dodgy proof that the past decades have been the warmest for many centuries.

She must be a “denier”, right, Robert?

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# Guest 2009-10-18 13:31

Shut up Manne, you turkey, your comments are ugly, and they won't work.

I could equally well (and with much better evidence) call you a SLIMY RACIST

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# Guest 2009-10-19 22:57

Not only should you be ashamed for being bereft of morality ethics and decency for propping up JUNK SCIENCE.. you have compromised any scintilla of credibility for any word that comes out of your mouth Manne. You have betrayed the Holocaust of both the Jews, Armenians, Cambodians and Darfour. You silly man. Making any analogy with the documented deaths of millions is hideous and ghoulish. You betray in the name of all the innocent who were slaughtered. The earth has experienced 7 Ice Ages and Warming cycles prior to industrialized mankind inhabiting this planet.

Do everyone a favor and sit down and shut up. Perhaps you might consider comedy although I personally find nothing in your comments amusing.

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