Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/30/2010 5:55:19 AM PDT by mattstat
Or so implies Andrew J. Hoffman, current sitter in the cushy Holcim chair at the University of Michigan, and writer of the peer-reviewed (I'm guessing) article "Climate change as a cultural and behavioral issue: Addressing barriers and implementing solutions". This sonorous creation resides in the journal Organizational Dynamics. The publisher of that august serial, Elsevier, thinks so highly of Hoffman's prose, that the article can be had for a mere $39.95. A bargain!
Hoffman, who not un-coincidentally has the look, mannerisms, and speech cadence of a television evangeli$t, has a deep, but narrow faith. He is certain sure that It's Worse Than We Thought, climatologically speaking. And he is amazed that the populace has not yet awakened to the danger he so clearly sees. O why! Why hasn't John Q. Public embraced all that is climate change? Why haven't they succumbed to various legislations? Why do they express doubt? Why have they not yet changed their behavior?
Because they think just like slave owners do. Yes, dear reader: your lack of panic is equivalent to your agreeing with the morality of slavery.
In short, the magnitude of the cultural and moral shift around climate change is as large as that which accompanied the abolition of slavery....
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
Does this sheltered egghead get oil from the Gulf to make the gasoline that powers his transportation or the natural gas from Texas or Pennsylvania to heat his home and office? If we could harness the hot air spewed by Leftist professors and politicians, we wouldn’t have to worry about our energy future.
“No doubt, because he cares so deeply about the environment, he does this gratis.”
LOL - I highly doubt that! Guys like this are going to milk the hoax for every dime they can steal from the taxpayer.
Oh, please.
Yet another Chicken Little AGW alarmist.
Of course, it’s only the behavior of the hoi poloi that bothers him.
0bama using 40 jets to bus 800 people to India and leasing the entire Taj Mahal for himself and his guests, is of no concern to the High Priests of Climate Change.
A pox on them.
If I recall correctly, the earth is about four billion years old and the climate has been changing throughout those four billion years.
Don’t forget the ink used to print his snore-fest was made with oil.
Being against climate change is morally equivalent to killing babies and puppies and roasting them for dinner.
So say the intellectual fools who invented ‘global warming’(I’m not using the new CYA term).
What a bunch of blitherring idiots.
No doubt all those jets, etc., were paid out of taxpayer dollars. I would be thrown in jail if I misused government resources like that.
“If I recall correctly, the earth is about four billion years old and the climate has been changing throughout those four billion years.”
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Probably right but most of us are too young to remember that far back.
LOL - I highly doubt that! Guys like this are going to milk the hoax for every dime they can steal from the taxpayer.
Actually, the article fee charged by Elsevier does not go to the author(s), it goes to Elsevier. In addition, he likely paid a fairly stiff fee to Elsevier to have his article published. I've seen fees of up to $2000/page for getting an article published in a top scholarly journal.
In addition, those journals typically have sky-high subscription rates. I've no idea why scholarly publishing is so expensive, but I do know that authors don't get a cent from it. I have articles published in Elsevier journals.
Rather the slave owners ignored the truth and pretended that black people wern’t people, because that was convenient, less costly, and less work for them.
The abortion supporters are morally the same in their attitudes towards pre-born people. They ignore the truth and pretend that pre-born people aren't people, because it's convenient, less costly, and less work for them.
No ma’am, he did not pay a fee. Academic publishing does not work that way for journals of this sort. Instead, he gave the article freely. This is the norm.
Only certain non-profit organizations charge “page fees”, which authors must pony up before an article sees print.
The common enemy of humanity is man.
That makes as much sense as opposition to global warming = support for slavery.
However, it leads naturally to the solution being the extinction of man to protect the earth. I am sure they would be the first to commit suicide if they could trust the rest of us to follow but they don't. Therefore, they must get rid of us first and then they will kill themselves. (Sounds a lot like Islam doesn't it?)
I don't trust them either so I am going to resist.
I speak from my experience with scientific publishing.
Maybe humanities journals are different, but a number of scientific journals charge page charges. In addition, there is a fee for color pictures, even if there aren’t page charges.
My whole point, however, was to point out that while it may cost authors to publish in journals, they are not profiting (at least directly) from it. That was in response to the person who commented (because of the article charge) that “Guys like this are going to milk the hoax for every dime they can steal from the taxpayer.”
I take your point, thanks.
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