Progressives – The New Reactionaries

For progressives, any change is catastrophic. The basis of their argument is that 97% of scientists believe humans influence the climate (probably closer to 100%)

From that nearly meaningless talking point, they conclude that almost all scientists think the climate is about to “collapse.” Propaganda which would make Goebbels blush.

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36 Responses to Progressives – The New Reactionaries

  1. Toppelton Geardom says:

    It’s so sad that environmentalism has hitched its wagon to the climate catastrophe star, when other pressing problems could have been effectively addressed.

  2. KevinK says:

    Like a climate “scientist” could actually design something useful like a bridge….

    Bridges in the industrialized world are designed and scrutinized by professional engineers, liability experts, etc, etc. to the point where they rarely fail (in recent times, if properly maintained).

    Yes, one did fail up in Minnesota a few years back, turns out it had a latent design flaw that dated from before the widespread use of computers for bridge design. Nobody (including climate scientists) noticed the flaw for several decades.

    So you can be AFRAID of every bridge you see, or as the climate “scientist” community desires you can be TERRIFIED of every cloud you see (is that one the “killer” storm Al Bore talked about ???).

    Me, I cross the bridges and watch the clouds with very little concern. A climate “scientist” would probably say; “don’t cross the river here, this bridge is no good, and that other one over there looks shaky too, maybe you should try swimming across, that usually works, or just stay on this side, can never be too careful you know, our models SAY……”

    Cheers, Kevin

    • Mark Luhman says:

      Actually almost all bridges will eventually collapse, the real question is when and why. That the problem with the climate debate it not whether the climate will warm, the real question is when and why. If we fallowed the warmest logic we would never cross any bridge after all it going to collapse.

  3. RCM says:

    I think the only appropriate response to this ad is to ask, “Collapse? Really? When? Oh, and would you explain what you mean by ‘Collapse’ exactly?

    • Collapse? Really? What kind of question is that? All Progressives know since kindergarten what’s a collapsed climate!

      It’s not pining for the fjords, it’s passed on. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. It is a late climate! It’s a stiff, bereft of life, it rests in peace. If they hadn’t nailed it to the AR5 it’d be pushing up the daisies. It’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It is an ex-climate!

  4. philjourdan says:

    When 97% of the employed toadies say something, I figure it is their paycheck talking.

  5. leftinflagstaff says:

    Now, that’s quite an accomplishment. Equating our climate to a rickety wooden bridge.

    • Gail Combs says:

      Actually it looks to be in fairly good shape. You can tell it was an ad put together by city folk since the country folks would have the same reaction I did.

      A similar bridge a half mile from my home is a heck of a lot scarier looking. Maybe I can sell a good picture of it… {:>D

    • James the Elder says:

      Hey; rickety bridge, rickety science.

  6. B says:

    Fear, sacrifice, obedience.

  7. Dave N says:

    I’d retort with: 99.9999% of scientists said continents don’t drift; (at least) one did. Would you use the “consensus” principle in order to gamble with human lives, or some other method?

    • B says:

      Hand washing. They went by consensus and people continued to die for a long time there after until it was proven doctors should wash their hands.

  8. Phil Jones says:

    Using Progressive Climate Science in reverse…. The weather before 1950 must have been very serine. .. CO2 the driving factor for all weather/temperature was 350ppm. ..

    Yet that wasn’t the case… as outlined on here regarding g Hurricane, tornado, and massive drought all occurred when CO2 was at the ‘right’ levels…

  9. tom0mason says:

    Over 90% of Medical authorities worldwide said that peptic ulcers were caused by excess acid and genetic disposition. If it were not for the heroic fight that occurred against ingrained consensus thinking of the Medical establishment, when two two Australian scientists, Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall, revolutionized the treatment of Peptic ulcers.
    Sadly 20 years earlier the originator of the idea lost his livelyhood for going against the consensus as he was a mere Greek pharmacist called John Lykoudis.

    Warren and Marshall were awarded the Noble prize, John Lykoudis is consigned to a footnote in history.

    http://www.news-medical.net/health/Peptic-Ulcer-History.aspx

  10. 97% of scientists say that this bridge is likely to collapse*! PANIC!

    *some time prior to the eventual heat-death of the universe in the next few trillion years.

  11. Andy Oz says:

    97% of insane people say that they are completely sane. One guy said he’s a mushroom.

    And 97% of civil engineers think climate science is crap. Just ask them.

  12. Paul in Sweden says:

    97% of all ‘Experts’ of a small group of radical activists that reject all existing engineering concepts and historically proven design say tear down all existing bridges or…

  13. Ben Vorlich says:

    In the case of the bridge given enough time the bridge will collapse. Historically bridges collapse if not maintained. The thing is that the there is no evidence of climate collapse in the past.

  14. Bloke down the pub says:

    Given the choice of crossing the bridge against the advice of the experts, or fording a 3′ deep crocodile infested river, or a 500 mile detour, I’d probably make up my own mind.

  15. GW says:

    Very simply, I’d get out and inspect the bridge myself, then make my own decision.

  16. DedaEda says:

    Would you believe those experts if they turned out to be climate scientists? They get even climate wrong…

  17. BobW in NC says:

    Just for once, JUST FOR ONCE, I would love to see the warmistas back up their “97%” with the data that were used to produce that figure: ~10,000 two-question surveys sent, ~3,100 returned, 79 “climate scientists’ ” answers SELECTED of the surveys returned, 77 of those agreed with the second question (if I remember correctly) that human activity produced CO2 that was causing the world to warm. This is science???

    I don’t have the specifics of that survey, but I think that’s close. What insane garbage!!!

  18. Ben says:

    The poster is wrong for a second reason. They never say “will”. They hem-haw and say “might”, “could”, “may”, and the error bounds usually exceed the metric of concern.

  19. Anto says:

    It would be more accurate to say, “The government has $50bn to spend replacing this bridge, if it’s about to collapse. They asked 100 bridge contractors whether it was going to collapse and 97 said yes.”

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