Posted on 01/22/2015 11:10:06 AM PST by yoe
An MIT professor of meteorology is dismissing global-warming alarmists as a discredited “cult” whose members are becoming more hysterical as emerging evidence continues to contradict their beliefs.
During an appearance on this writer’s radio show Monday, MIT Professor emeritus Richard Lindzen discussed the religious nature of the movement.
“As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that’s what’s happening here. Think about it,” he said. “You’ve led an unpleasant life, you haven’t led a very virtuous life, but now you’re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It’s salvation!”
Lindzen, 74, has issued calm dismissals of warmist apocalypse, reducing his critics to sputtering rage.
[snip] But that may not be true. Now the same agencies have acknowledged that there’s only a 38 percent chance that 2014 was the hottest year on record. And even if it was, it was only by two-100ths of a degree.
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Dead on. Ludicrous is the word.
Taking sparse data and claiming that kind of accuracy is nothing more then an exercise in plug n' chug.
He stole that from me!
I’ve been saying for years that Global Warming is a doomsday cult of environmentalism. It has everything - an angry god, a sinful and wasteful mankind, a prophetic end-of-times story, a path to redemption (environmentalism) and high priests, like Al Gore.
"Disconfirmed expectancy is a psychological term for what is commonly known as a failed prophecy. According to the American social psychologist Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, disconfirmed expectancies create a state of psychological discomfort because the outcome contradicts expectancy. Upon recognizing the falsification of an expected event an individual will experience the competing cognitions, "I believe [X]," and, "I observed [Y]." The individual must either discard the now disconfirmed belief or justify why it has not actually been disconfirmed. As such, disconfirmed expectancy and the factors surrounding the individual's consequent actions have been studied in various settings."
If MIT says so, then MITT must be the cult leader! He’s been quoted on the bad effects of “climate change” recently.
“Debating the left is pointless. They will never admit defeat. The one word that describes them best is - disingenuous.”
Yes.
And more so, when defeat is obvious, they magically were always against what was just defeated.
Bump.
I believe in global warming. In fact, I have plans to convert my house (which is about 220 feet above sea level) to a dock/marina. Figure I’ll dig the holes for the pilings now before things get too sloppy.
“...instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that’s what’s happening here...”
The word that fits here is “projection”
Cancel that - I thought this professor was talking about the AGW Cult of AlGore.
Stand down.
Srbfl
Yes, liberalism is a cult - the the warmist are closest to going over the edge... they're in full panic.
Climate changists and atheists, they are not synonymous to freedom of speech, let alone science.
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If I had to choose a word, I would pick perfidious.
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