[FrankR]

"Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics "

After being trained in sales and being in sales for a long, long time, I am amazed that this buncho of evioro-loonies chose the wording, "plan against skeptics".

Whether your selling cars, shoes, or ideas, you can't convince someone to buy your product by using something AGAINST them.

They come on like the "charge of the liars brigade" and tell us we'll believe it or else. Well, what could we expect from today's "chicago" style salesmanship.

What we're seeing here is a formation of another brigade of "thought police". It doesn't matter what you think, or if you believe in GW, but they are going to make you support it, or ELSE.

Global Warming is the biggest hoax ever, with obamacare coming in a close second.

So you dipsticks start your campaign based on lies - it's a hoax and everyone knows it.

[SmartInsight]

The purpose is not to convince the skeptics, but to intimidate them — pretty soon they will be declared “heretics” and burned at the stake.

[jafojeffsurf]

Yes, but they are still working with old logic where the silent majority stayed silent.

Their problem is the paradigm has shifted and they do not realize this, yet!

[danielmryan]

After being trained in sales and being in sales for a long, long time, I am amazed that this buncho of evioro-loonies chose the wording, "plan against skeptics".

Whether your selling cars, shoes, or ideas, you can't convince someone to buy your product by using something AGAINST them.

Sorry to be so cyncial, but why should they worry? They're not trying to sell; they're trying to lobby. There's a big difference between the two. In order to make a sale, you have to convince someone to part with money - typically, their own or funds over which they're responsible - for whatever it is you're selling. Lobbyists don't have to do that. They have to convince politicians, and/or bureaucrats, to do something for (or to) someone else.

As long as politics is adversarial, which it is, that bad sales strategy will not be bad for lobbying. As you know, a sale isn't made by saying "buy this and you'll really get back at those so-and-sos that have been cutting into you." On the other hand, laws and/or regulations are often passed using that technique. Once it gets to the politicians and/or bureaucrats, it morphs into "You will save those poor people from the depradations of those so-and-so's. You can smite the wicked!"

From this angle, selling is actually cleaner.

One more point: the AGW lobbyists-with-degrees don't even need to hustle the politicians and/or bureaucrats. They just need to hustle the public-school teachers. That's what "the long march through the institutions" is all about. All ya need is a plausible-sounding high ground, and it's a'rollin'. The absurdities of yesterday become the "impractical idealism" of today and the base for coercive measures tomorrow.

After all, who would sit down with his kid and say something that has a real chance of inducing the kid to blow off his studies? What youngster would be reckless enough to have an "F in indoctrination" dogging his transcript? [Feel free to substitute "her" is appropriate.]