A scientific debate with an environmentalist
A wonderful explanation of how Green's debate over at
The Daily Bayonet:
So SUE Me
The debate is over, the science is settled.
How often have radical greens repeated those phrases in an effort to shield their global warming hoax from the inconvenient truth that there is no global warming? Well we won�t be hearing those tired old phrases much longer, because there is a new explanation greens can use when faced with inconvenient truths.
I call it the SUE defense, the Shut-Up Explanation. Here�s a quick and dirty example of how it works:Skeptic � �There has been no global warming since 1998.�
Green � �Shut up!�
See how effective it is? It�s brilliant. In fact, it�s so easy to use that there have been two high profile cases of the new Shut Up Explanation in the news already.
Exhibit One: The recent EPA action to bury an internal study that found CO2 has no impact on climate. Really? How interesting. Shut Up!
Exhibit Two: The fate of Mitchell Taylor, a scientist who has studied polar bears for 30 years and who says that the number of bears are increasing or stable, not decreasing as the WWF and scaredy-greens claim. His views won�t be presented at the upcoming Copenhagen conference because, well, Shut Up!
Occasionally the fervent green activist will come across a person who does not immediately fold at the Shut Up Explanation. In which case greens are authorized to escalate to DefCon Eleventy and accuse them of treason. Here�s a snippet from the Alarmist�s Handbook:Use of excessive exclamation points is approved when calling for the death, execution, incarceration or public flogging of stubborn skeptics, for appropriate usage please apply the Romm standard.
Clearly skeptics need new tactics to deal with the devastating new argument, I�ll have to bring it up at the next vast right-wing conspiracy meeting.
What they said.
DaveH -- who doesn't shut up very well...
Posted by DaveH at June 30, 2009 5:55 PM