Great piece from David Harsanyi at the often-excellent Federalist, pointing out most Americans have a rational attitude toward global warming — fewer people drive hybrids, carpool, or bike to work than in the past.
And there’s this fun bit:
For us, it inevitable that this whole charade ends up granting more power to central government to micromanage our lives since so few people wish to voluntarily change their behavior, regardless of how much they tell pollsters they care about the issue. This is why Exxon is being sued by the government for retroactively failing to push theories that the state wants it to. Now, fanatics are drafting children to help punish companies for thought crimes. It is one of the most egregious attacks on free speech we’ve encountered yet. But even if the legal effort fails, which it almost surely will, the effort to chill speech by risk-averse Big Business will surely succeed. Which is the point, after all. The end goal isn’t censorship by government; it’s self-censorship by the targets of government.
Exxon had no duty to promote global warming fears, even in the hilariously unlikely event they had (in the 1970s, mind you) the kind of highly reliable climate models that still elude researchers today, or knew what most IPCC drafters in 1995 didn’t when they claimed human influence was still indiscernible — and this is hardly the only effort in this vein. The practical and intended effect of these Lysenkoist tactics is to warn anyone who researches a politically controversial topic that Democrat special interests may drag them through the courts and perhaps try to jail them. As with campaign limits on free speech, their operating assumption is that Americans must be coerced and herded away from the dangerous ideas of private individuals.
Fortunately, Americans have sensibly responded to this kind of legal savagery and attacks on Enlightenment ideals of free inquiry and intellectual tolerance by voting in record numbers of Republicans.
But just to be safe, since we’re really only ever One Election Away, the legal department here at Classical Values has asked that I hereby disclaim any liability if reading this causes them to round you up for the Climate Nuremberg trials, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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5 responses to “The Limits To Lysenkoism”
when the methane frozen at the bottom of the ocean starts to thaw out and rises to the surface these same people you praise will demand(those that are still alive) no moderation in dealing with climate change denighers first and then republicans and then …
When the methane from librul’s bottoms starts to thaw out and rises to the surface then you’ll say “Hey, who cut the cheese!”
The NYT has an amusing article Who Turned My
Blue State Red?
Why poor areas vote for politicians
who want to slash the safety net.
ALEC MacGILLIS, NOV. 20, 2015…with this excellent comment:
road kill their is a good book on the subject “what is the matter with kansas”. most white people I meet hate obama because he is something and you are nothing. also you didn’t mention with melting frozen methane and how happy people(those that are still alive) will be with climate change denighers!
I thought we had a constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws. I guess that doesn’t apply to lawsuits from the government.
For that matter, I had the distinct impression we had a constitution. Silly me…
Thanks for the link, but fair warning to your readers: I started my blog, Climate Nuremberg, out of a desire to provide up-to-date weather details for people in, or considering a visit to, Bavaria’s beautiful forestlands. I was sick of the frustratingly slow experience of trying to find out the temperature in metropolitan Nuremberg, and decided to do something about it.
It’s always puzzled me that visitors come to my site expecting some kind of controversial, political fare. Clearly I’m missing the joke somehow—and I’ll be very grateful to the person who finally lets me in on the allusion.
In the meantime, readers genuinely interested in discussing the short- and long-term weather conditions in Germany’s spiritual heart are welcome to drop in.