Soros-funded Leftist organizations such as "thinkprogress" and the various offshoots have taken the Religion of "Man-Made Global Warming" to its logical end: they're going after Deniers. They've noticed that most meteorolgists don't buy into their religion and don't believe that human activities exert any significant impact upon planetary climate. This is heresy, and these people need to be "held accountable". How very Orwellian.
The second link above, an outfit called foreskin the facts (or something like that) has a nifty little q&a atop their homepage, asking if you believe that the planet is warming. Provide the "wrong" answer, and they tell you that you're part of a growing trend of people who don't buy into it. Then, they tell you how 2011 was THE WORST YEAR EVER for bad weather.
Now, just a few months ago, if you brought up weather, these very same folks snorted in disdain and condescendingly informed you that weather is not the same as climate. Today, they're desperately trying to make the case that they are, in fact, the same. Facts don't matter to these people; they just want to make money - and gain power - out of fear-mongering, and they'll say whatever they think they can get away with in pursuit of these goals.
Their latest effort: stifle the majority of television, radio, and print meteorologists who don't subscribe to the Religion. They must be silenced by any means necessary: censorship, ridicule, pressure to remove them - all valid approaches as far as the priesthood is concerned. If deemed necessary, there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't countenance kidnapping egregious Deniers and sawing their heads off. They are, after all, tolerant™ Leftists.
Funny how it works that not only are some facts more equal than others, in different years the same facts have different value. It could be that the "right" answer really doesn't have a whole lot to do with the facts.
Heh. Good post--as usual.
Posted by: T D | January 30, 2012 at 05:47 PM
Last year was horrible weather? How did I miss that?
Wait. I didn't miss it. I found it pretty decent.
Posted by: Sam L. | January 31, 2012 at 01:01 PM
Having been subjected to both "arguments" by apostles, I'm reminded of the old game of "Twister" albeit without the physical gyrations. Glad you found the post worth a read, T D. The folks at Hot Air linked to it as well.
I think they had a lot of snow and ice last winter in the midwest and east coast, Sam - so I imagine that's what they're talking about. It may not fit in with their "planet is warming" meme, but then it apparently doesn't have to. It all depends upon what your interpretation of the word, "is", is.
I noticed this morning that before the instruments froze and stopped transmitting, a low temperature of -79 F was recorded in central Alaska yesterday....
Posted by: Max | January 31, 2012 at 03:44 PM
Maybe non-scientists have a lick of sense. Adding a few more ppm of CO2 for 50-200 years is going to cause the end of the world. Yet, CO2 levels have been naturally increasing for 10,000 years through a little ice age.
Posted by: Ian Random | February 06, 2012 at 02:53 PM
I suspect they just don't like the tv/radio folks. The AGW folks, after all, have a couple of issues: (1) they're attention whores (2) if you doubt (1),consider this:Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the UEA which was at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ scandal, for example, was given £13.7 million in grants for his department’s research work; the environmental non-governmental organisations such as Greenpeace came on board because scaremongering helps them raise revenue.
Posted by: Max | February 06, 2012 at 05:39 PM