The talking points are, that all the noble Scientists, (who are good hearted, open minded, and intelligent) believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming. On the other side are the incredible scientists, whom the evil corporations have paid off, to construct lies and obfuscation.
There's no nuance when the fate of the world is at stake. Either you agree with the Consensus, or you are a Denier. You're either an Intellectual, or a Patsy for the Oil Corporations. Academic or Propagandist. Enlightened or Bought Off. Intellectual or Whore.
One of the most honorable men to the Left is Dr. James Hansen, chief climate scientist over at NASA. Dr. Hansen has been boldly standing up to the Bush Administration, who repeatedly tries to censor this whistle-blower. The order for the President to tone down Dr. Hansen's rhetoric comes straight from the oil corporations, according to Liberal dogma.
It is believed Hansen is above reproach, and no sum would be sufficient for him to alter his opinion. But it turns out, he CAN be bought off. In Monday's Investors Business Daily comes this juicy tidbit: The George Soros funded Open Society Institute, has given $720 000 to Dr. Hansen. Apparently, not all the science whores are in the pockets of oil companies.
Of course, supporters of Hansen would attest that the good Dr. has ALWAYS been a proponent of Global Warming, and the payoff from Soros was an Honorarium rather than a bribe.
But it turns out, that wasn't the case. Thirty six years ago, when the Global Temperatures were falling, Dr. Hansen didn't believe in Global Warming. Back then, his famous computer models were churning out numbers 180 degrees from todays prognostications.
And What about CO2 you ask? Well back in 1971, Hansen and his partner in crime didn't think it was relevant. "They found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide that fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere," the Washington Post report said.
Furthermore it was recently discovered that the stalwart Dr. Hansen had made an error in his calculations, and the oft repeated statistic that 1998 was the warmest year in US history was wrong. Once the numbers were corrected, it turns out that 1934 was the warmest.
Is it possible that George Soros, with all his money could convince Dr. Hansen to fudge numbers? Why that would be an Indecent Proposal wouldn't it?
2 comments:
This article seems more like an attack on liberals, instead of an article on the polarization of morality or even moral ambiguity.
never intended it to be an essay on the polarization of morality.
And it's not really an attack on Liberals either, it's an attack on a Liberal Scientist, whom many regard, a decent honest open-minded intellectual.
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