Alexander Cockburn: I am an intellectual blasphemer (red anthropogenic global warming denier!)

spiked-online.com ^ | 25 January 2008 | Alexander Cockburn

[Oberon]

pingferlater

[MrB]

Just looked up “Malthusianism” -

at its base, this belief is actually coming true - overpopulation amongst the DEPENDENT POOR.

And there’s a political party that stakes its very existence on the growth of this segment of society.

[carolinablonde]

Well there seems to be a discrepancy on the delegate count depending on where you look.

Real Clear Politics has the counts that you mention:

McCain	Romney	Huckabee
93 (less 57 from FL = 36 as of day before yesterday)	67	40

But CNN has the following:

McCain	Romney	Huckabee
95 (less 57 from FL = 38 as of day before yesterday)	67	26

Not sure why there would be a difference.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Good read, thanks.

[FBD]

The start of the AGW scare was done in concert with the nuclear industry, and with the encouragement & financial aid of M. Thather's administration.
A well written essay on the subject, here:

http://www.john-daly.com/history.htm

“Global Warming: How It All Began”

[isaiah55version11_0]

bttt

[Old Professer]

And he didn’t fall for the Clintons either, he was pushed.

[Old Professer]

Talk to Fred Singer about his battles with Science to even get a letter-to-the-editor published and then get back to me.

[dead]

Here in the West, the so-called ‘war on global warming’ is reminiscent of medieval madness. You can now buy Indulgences to offset your carbon guilt. If you fly, you give an extra 10 quid to British Airways; BA hands it on to some non-profit carbon-offsetting company which sticks the money in its pocket and goes off for lunch. This kind of behaviour is demented.

Funny stuff. Hippies are so stupid.

[Old Professer]

In the military, they just make you paint everything that doesn’t move.

[Tribune7]

The nuclear industry is benefiting immeasurably from the current catastrophism. Last year, for example, the American nuclear regulatory commission speeded up its process of licensing; there is an imminent wave of nuclear plant building. Many in the nuclear industry see in the story about CO2 causing climate change an opportunity to recover from the adverse publicity of Chernobyl.

BWWWWWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Now, we will build those dams and kill the snail darter!!!!

BWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Frankly, I always thought it was the coal people behind Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda.

[SunkenCiv]

Intimidation first — vandalized home and autos, small loud groups of unknown people suddenly popping up shouting things while out shopping etc...

[thulldud]

Peer review is a tool. We know how it should be used, but how it is actually used may be something different.

YMMV.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Read soon. Amazing stuff.

[Rudder]

Talk to Fred Singer about his battles with Science to even get a letter-to-the-editor published and then get back to me.

A letter to the editor is not a peer-reviewed scientific report.

[Daveinyork]

About 17 years ago, I was in on a one hour whirlwind tour of Oxford University. I stopped in a book store that had some Oxford U tee shirts for sale, and I listened in on a conversation between two young long-haired, wire rimmed spectacled, work shirt clad, Marxists.

One said, “After the revolution, the first thing we should do is kill all the environmentalists.”

I had just that morning read an article in the Telegraph about Hitler’s environmentalism. I pointed out to said young Marxists that Hitler was an environmentalist. It pleased them to hear that.

What I should have said, “Why wait? Kill them now.”

[Lancey Howard]

Huh. Welcome, Alexander Cockburn, to your fascist Democrat world.

[rogue yam]

at its base, this belief is actually coming true - overpopulation amongst the DEPENDENT POOR.

Malthus said that increased population inevitably leads to shortages of food and starvation because certain natural resources (e.g. arable land) are finite and scarce and unreplaceable. The "environmental movement" adopts this "scarcity leads to disaster" mentality to all resources, claiming we are necessarily running out of land, soil, water, energy resources, "biodiversity", clean air, everything. Alex Cockburn, Julian Simon, and myself believe this is bunk and that man's intelligence and creativity can overcome any and all scarcity through increased end-use efficiency and substitution. The difference among us is that Julian Simon and I believe that it is through individual freedom and free enterprise that scarcities will be overcome and Cockburn foolishly and stubbornly clings to vague imaginings of enlightened collectivism to get the job done.

[skimask]

Unfortunately, spell check doesn’t catch grammar mistakes.

[Landru]

"The start of the AGW scare was done in concert with the nuclear industry, and with the encouragement & financial aid of M. Thather's administration."

Indeed it did.
A "vehicle" for the newly out-of-work communists.
The mother of all unintended consequences, I'd say.

What I find even crazier is how the hard data demonstrates as CO2 increased, the planet cooled proportionately.

Of course it just makes sense these days it's pitched the exact opposite.

...& swallowed hook, line *&* sinker.