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DOCUMENTARY FEARED
Social scientist Tom Lowe slams Swindle:
Mr Lowe ... said it was not proper to give deniers of global warming equal media space on the issue, given the overwhelming scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions — and not solar activity, as The Great Global Warning Swindle purports — are the driving force behind climate change.
One abbreviated documentary, Mr Lowe, does not come even slightly close to “equal time”. Even a social scientist should be able to work that out.
Now, let’s all vote!
(Via Andrew R. and Wally Anglesea)
UPDATE. The ABC interviews one of those horrible denialists:
Emeritus Professor Lance Endersbee AO is a former Dean of Engineering and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Monash University. He told Tom Harwood, ABC Western Queensland’s Morning Program producer that the world has been warming naturally due to increased magnetic radiation from the sun.
Silence, blasphemer!
“At either end of the spectrum are states of denial or despair. As a result, research indicates that the public feel unwilling or unable to do anything about climate change.”
It’s not just the general public, pony boy. Take a look at this item by Colby Cosh:
“..51 plane flights in six months for an environmental author and lecturer—embarrassing? Yeah, that’s one way of putting it. Another would be “I guess my entire career has really just been one long act of satire.” It is possible that none of these flights were even slightly superfluous? Does Makower have some fatal allergy to videoconferencing?”
If those who profess the greatest admiration and respect for global warming alarmism cannot be bothered altering their behaviour even slightly, is it any wonder that the rest of us see little reason to change our lives either?
And notice the sophistry in the following statement by Lowe:
“..it was not proper to give deniers of global warming equal media space on the issue, given the overwhelming scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions — and not solar activity, as The Great Global Warning Swindle purports — are the driving force behind climate change”.
So once a “consensus” is declared by a social scientist (note - not even a real scientist), any questioning of the status quo is forbidden.
How ever would we have got out of the Dark Ages if this rule existed then?
Posted by The Mongrel on 2007 07 08 at 08:34 AM • permalinkWhere does our precious social scientist get his “overwhelming scientific consensus”? From Al Gore?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 09:00 AM • permalink#7: What makes you think we did?
Haha. Maybe some of us are closer to the Dark Ages than others.
Here is an historical example of where the medical consensus was not respected. I suspect Mr Lowe would not approve:
Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes ... developed an interest in the condition after [a] physician and a medical student both died of septicaemia after performing an autopsy on a woman who died of puerperal fever.
Holmes ...became convinced that the condition was highly contagious, and that doctors, nurses and midwives were the active agents of its spread…in 1843 [Holmes] published his classic essay The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever. The essay contains eight rules for the obstetrician, which included not only handwashing and changes of clothing, but also the avoidance of autopsies if obstetric cases were being managed.
Holmes’ conclusions were ridiculed by many of his prominent contemporaries. For example, Charles Meigs, a well-known obstetrician, was incensed at the suggestion he may himself be transmitting disease. “Doctors,” he said, “are gentlemen, and gentlemen’s hands are clean.”Posted by The Mongrel on 2007 07 08 at 09:11 AM • permalinkOh no. What’s he gonna do next, hold his breath til he gets his way? At least he’s smart enough to fear the tit drying up if the ‘consensus’ breaks, I’ll give him that.
Centre for Risk and Community Safety? Is that under the MiniTruth or the MiniLove? Do they run the Young Pioneers as well? What a bunch of shit. The Western World has wasted more money and time in the last 15 years trying to mitigate improbable or nonexistant risks than bears thinking about. Add this one to the list.
I wonder how Lowe would explain NASA’s findings that Mars is getting warmer and its ice caps are melting
I was reminded of this ancient anecdote today. It’s an oldie but a goody and, I believe describes Aunty to a T.
HORSE’S TEETH
In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. For thirteen days the disputation raged without ceasing. All the ancient books and chronicles were fetched out, and wonderful and ponderous erudition such as was never before heard of in this region was made manifest. At the beginning of the fourteenth day, a youthful friar of goodly bearing asked his learned superiors for permission to add a word, and straightway, to the wonderment of the disputants, whose deep wisdom he sore vexed, he beseeched them to unbend in a manner coarse and unheard-of and to look in the open mouth of a horse and find answer to their questionings. At this, their dignity being grievously hurt, they waxed exceeding wroth; and, joining in a mighty uproar, they flew upon him and smote him, hip and thigh, and cast him out forthwith. For, said they, surely Satan hath tempted this bold neophyte to declare unholy and unheard-of ways of finding truth, contrary to all the teachings of the fathers. After many days more of grievous strife, the dove of peace sat on the assembly, and they as one man declaring the problem to be an everlasting mystery because of a grievous dearth of historical and theological evidence thereof, so ordered the same writ down.
—Francis Bacon, 1592.Another anecdote, probably an old Reader’s Digest story:
Someone brought a rabbit to a kindergarten class, and the children all gathered around admiring its soft fur and long ears. One of the children asked the teacher, “Is it a boy bunny or a girl bunny?” The teacher said that she didn’t know, and a lively discussion ensued. Little Johnny’s hand went up.
“Ooo! Ooo! I know! I know how we can tell!”
The teacher thought, “Uh-oh. Here it comes.”
“Er, how can we tell, Johnny?”
“Let’s all vote on it!”
Sounds like Lowe and those monks would get along famously, Pogria. All that’s missing is Lowe’s vow of poverty and chasity.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 08 at 10:30 AM • permalink“Given the current state of understanding and global scientific consensus on climate change, the ABC’s decision to show the documentary appears to have more to do with ratings, shock and awe than free speech and journalistic balance.”
That’s right, genius, “shock and awe”! Opposition to global warming is just another part of the same evil Bush/Howard strategy that led to the overthrow of Sadaam and the war on terrorism.
Social scientists: wrong AND boring.
With all the hand-wringing, one would think the ABC was planning on airing a snuff film of sorts.
Most of the people who have a dog in this fight have seen the movie on line.
The fear from the left over the airing, is that now the proles (the folks who will largely fund the lefts prescribed “fix” for this fabrication), are going to have a light shone on this fraud for the first time.
Maybe it is a snuff-film.
The current project examines the Community Fire Unit approach to bushfire preparedness in New South Wales from a broad perspective; plotting changes in bushfire management as it has developed through time and in response to social, economic and cultural trends. This work will locate Community Fire Units accurately within the spectrum of other bushfire management approaches nationally and internationally and aid the development of the ‘stay or go’ policy within the national bushfire management framework.
Hmmm ... let’s see if he can f*ck this up ... prolly had a lot of bush fires back in AberdeenSo, are they not aware of the past ice ages with high atmospheric CO2 levels? If CO2 causes global warming (and put me firmly in the pro global warming camp because I prefer tropical breezes to bitter cold), then how could Canada and much of the United States have been covered with glaciers when the CO2 level was higher?
Perhaps the money generated from the concerts is REALLY going toward research for locating and capping CO2 seeps but somehow I doubt it. If CO2 is strictly rationed, the trees won’t be happy, and I’m rather accustomed to the oxygen they provide.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 08 at 11:30 AM • permalink#34 Rob Read
I don’t mind churning up sensitive peat in the swamps around here but, fortunately for the swamps, in the recent drought a lot of it burned. Are peat and heather endangered species in Scotland?
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 08 at 11:35 AM • permalinkWhile we’re in the voting spirit, there’s another Goreball Worming poll on the ABC site here (scroll down, right-hand side):
Are you actively trying to reduce carbon emissions in your home?
At the moment we’re behind on this one, people. Let’s get to work!
Posted by HisHineness on 2007 07 08 at 12:06 PM • permalinkSilly CO2 causes global warming people. Real scientists know that global warming is caused by fat people.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 08 at 12:24 PM • permalinkBeing an SES type person, I enrolled (2003) in a degree course in emergency management. Imagine my horror to find that I’ll end up with a degree in “social science (emergency management)”. Social science? What the hell is that? Is it related to “social justice”? Neither term has ever made any sense to me.
Galileo faced Lowebrows like Tom when he was called before the Inquisition.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 08 at 07:05 PM • permalinkMr Lowe ... said it was not proper to give deniers of global warming
Lowe can be dismissed because he is way off the pace. Global warming is finished, now it is climate change. And that can be milked for years. Why, only six months ago it was stinking hot here, air conditioners humming all day. Now it is freezing cold and the heater is on.
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