Learning To Think Like A Progressive

33 Responses to Learning To Think Like A Progressive

1. B says:

   January 29, 2015 at 2:47 am

   With them it’s all about the “concern”.

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2. 1957chev says:

   January 29, 2015 at 2:48 am

   The way to think like a progressive? Put your mouth in gear, but leave your brain disengaged…

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   • Robert B says:

     January 29, 2015 at 3:04 am

     But seriously, Gavin, whoever u r, why do you lie and misled about something so serious?

     Too easy.

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3. Anything is possible says:

   January 29, 2015 at 2:55 am

   http://richardtol.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/radical-greens.html

   “There are now elements in the environmental movement who are so worried about the state of the planet that they have lost all sense of proportion. This is alarming for those at the receiving end of their mindless wrath. It does not help to protect the environment either.”

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   • Anything is possible says:

     January 29, 2015 at 2:57 am

     I just love the phrase “mindless wrath” – it sums up the alarmists perfectly.

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     • emsnews says:

       January 29, 2015 at 1:30 pm

       The Grapes Of Mindless Wrath.

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   • Stark Dickflüssig says:

     January 29, 2015 at 4:40 pm

     There are now elements in the environmental movement who are so worried about the state of the planet that they have lost all sense of proportion.

     Now?
     Was this written in 1971?

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4. MrX says:

   January 29, 2015 at 2:56 am

   lie and mislead? lol. They’ve really decided that reality = lie.

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5. exmaschine says:

   January 29, 2015 at 3:26 am

   NotReal-a…what a sap, a statist sap…

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6. omanuel says:

   January 29, 2015 at 3:27 am

   Since 1945 they have assumed that Stalin’s “Great Social Experiment” could not fail. Still today, many are trying to be “stupid like a fox”, totally unaware that the seventy-year era of rule by deception has ended and Big Brother is going down!

   Our challenge now is to:

   1. Retain the benefits of, and
   2. Eliminate the deception in

   The Great Social Experiment of 1945-2015

   https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/Social_Experiment.pdf

   We must not get side-tracked trying to punish those who used public funds to deceive the public for the past seventy years.

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7. Dave N says:

   January 29, 2015 at 3:36 am

   I think she was talking to herself in the last tweet

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8. Michael 2 says:

   January 29, 2015 at 3:41 am

   Pick one:

   1. Society collapses in two weeks OR
   2. Society collapses in 100 years.

   I’ll take door number two!

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9. gofer says:

   January 29, 2015 at 3:47 am

   Does this person seriously consider all of the things that “could” happen in 100 years? She must be a nervous wreck.

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10. SMS says:

    January 29, 2015 at 3:52 am

    Obviously she hasn’t seen the numbers on green energy. We should demand she take herself off the grid and try to survive for a few days without fossil fuels. Or, just to give her a dose of reality, she can pretend all the energy she is using is (no such thing) green and just chip in an additional few hundred percent more in money to offset the extra pretend cost. This, just to get an actual feel off what it would be like to go off the fossil fuel grid.

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11. R. de Haan says:

    January 29, 2015 at 3:53 am

    Clueless people. Low oil prices kill off most green projects right now. Number of pallet heaters in Germany collapsed, oil is cheaper despite the subsidy.

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12. sabretoothed says:

    January 29, 2015 at 5:02 am

    Idiots and their stupid computers

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/blizzard-15/blizzard-bust-nyc-worst-fears-fail-materialize-n294336

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13. sabretoothed says:

    January 29, 2015 at 5:04 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpNJAKq7dE

    Prince Charles IS BACK!!!

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/26/prince-charles-global-pact-climate-change-magna-carta-earth

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14. sabretoothed says:

    January 29, 2015 at 5:07 am

    Global Warming Causing Yeti!!!

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/blizzard-15/yeti-sighting-boston-during-storm-n295571

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15. Richard Todd says:

    January 29, 2015 at 7:08 am

    As a low level quality control grunt from western Canada, I would just like to thank Tony and WUWT for providing all the ammo I need to wage war on all my lefty friends. facts and figures seem to anger them.

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    • Edmonton Al says:

      January 29, 2015 at 12:42 pm

      I’ll second that. I have sent many articles to the Canadian Government over the last few years. Thanks Tony.

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16. Sharpshooter says:

    January 29, 2015 at 8:22 am

    Wow! Arguments right out of the Medieval era (count the logical fallacies)!
    The cutest thing about “progressives” is how REgressive they are in reality; downright primitive.

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    • Jason Calley says:

      January 29, 2015 at 1:43 pm

      I usually refer to them as “so-called Progressives” but after reading your comment, I may start calling them “pREgressives”.

      The name “Progressive” is actually really good marketing though… just like how the Russian Communists picked “Bolshevik” (which means “Majority”) while they were still a tiny splinter group.

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17. g2-9ed9acc685824c6663c51c5b093476cc says:

    January 29, 2015 at 8:41 am

    Well, there’s “lying” and then there’s “being gullible” enough to believe the lies you’re told.

    This person represents the latter instance.

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18. Eliza says:

    January 29, 2015 at 9:46 am

    Again from Australian Caca a country where you cannot do anything thanks to the politically correct left which destroyed that country as a living alternative. LOL

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19. philjourdan says:

    January 29, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    Your article is mis-labeled. That is not thinking. Just regurgitating.

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20. Mac says:

    January 29, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    I read both posts of Steven Goddard’s back and forths with this obviously debased and unstable woman, and, I must say, her insulting and smarmy Twitter attacks are most illuminating. In two separate posts, she uses the pretend word “anomalities” and then says “whomever you are…” in another post. And these are supposed to be the smart people?

    “Global warming” in a nutshell: the religious cult of the malleable and simple automatons.

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21. Chip Bennett says:

    January 29, 2015 at 10:13 pm

    I don’t understand: why would society collapse with fossil fuels in 100 years?

    Does she mean that we’ll run out of fossil fuels in 100 years? If so, aren’t we back to society collapsing within two weeks without fossil fuels?

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    • Gail Combs says:

      January 29, 2015 at 10:59 pm

      She thinks we will have run away Gore Bull Warbling.
      However the earth is certainly not going to warm catastrophically for another 65 kyr.

      Where are we in terms of the Milankovitch cycle and solar insolation?

      NOAA: @ 60N June.

      Holocene peak insolation: 523 Wm-2
      ………………………………………………………..decrease = 47 Wm-2
      NOW (modern Warm Period) 476 Wm-2
      ……………………………………………………….. decrease = 12 Wm-2
      Depth of the last ice age – around 464 Wm?2

      The earth is a heck of a lot closer to the solar insolation during the depths of an ice age than it is to the Holocene Optimum!

      The ClimAstrologists are saying that the solar insolation decrease is going to be trumped by CO2 forcing when the entire CO2 forcing is 32 to 44 W m–2 [cf., Reid, 1997]. and all but 5 to 6 W m–2 of that forcing occurs in the first 200 ppm CO2. (modtran)

      Some how 47 W m–2 trumps 5 W m–2 in my book and that is using THEIR numbers!

      A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic D18O records
      Lisiecki & Raymo
      ABSTRACT
      We present a 5.3-Myr stack (the ‘‘LR04’’ stack) of benthic d18O records from 57 globally distributed sites aligned by an automated graphic correlation algorithm. This is the first benthic d18O stack composed of more than three records to extend beyond 850 ka,…

      RESULTS
      Recent research has focused on MIS 11 as a possible analog for the present interglacial [e.g., Loutre and Berger, 2003; EPICA Community Members, 2004] because both occur during times of low eccentricity. The LR04 age model establishes that MIS 11 spans two precession cycles, with d18O values below 3.6% for 20 kyr, from 398 – 418 ka. In comparison, stages 9 and 5 remained below 3.6% for 13 and 12 kyr, respectively, and the Holocene interglacial has lasted 11 kyr so far. In the LR04 age model, the average LSR of 29 sites is the same from 398– 418 ka as from 250–650 ka; consequently, stage 11 is unlikely to be artificially stretched. However, the 21 June insolation minimum at 65°N during MIS 11 is only 489 W/m2, much less pronounced than the present minimum of 474 W/m2. In addition, current insolation values are not predicted to return to the high values of late MIS 11 for another 65 kyr. We propose that this effectively precludes a ‘‘double precession cycle’’ interglacial [e.g., Raymo, 1997] in the Holocene without human influence….

      So according to that paper, based on empirical evidence, the earth will be flirting with a glacial inception for the next 65 kyr.

      This fall of 2012 a href=”http://www.clim-past.net/8/1473/2012/cp-8-1473-2012.pdf”>Can we predict the duration of an interglacial? agrees and gives the calculated solar insolation values @ 65N on June 22 for several glacial inceptions:

      Current value – insolation = 479W m?2 (from that paper)

      MIS 7e – insolation = 463 W m?2,
      MIS 11c – insolation = 466 W m?2,
      MIS 13a – insolation = 500 W m?2,
      MIS 15a – insolation = 480 W m?2,
      MIS 17 – insolation = 477 W m?2

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22. gofer says:

    January 29, 2015 at 11:13 pm

    Giant gap between what scientists think and what public thinks:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/poll-shows-giant-gap-public-scientists-28583862

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    • Gail Combs says:

      January 29, 2015 at 11:53 pm

      American Association for the Advancement of Science???

      The global warming HOAX started at a conference in 1975 in the US organized by the anthropologist Margaret Mead, 1974 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

      The Fabian Connection

      Put simply, the Anthropogenic Global Warming scare seems to be the latest ploy of the Fabians to implement their utopia of a world socialist state centred in the United Nations.

      So it was with a bit of surprise that I came across Michael Filozof’s article in American Thinker of 11 March, 2009 – Obama and the Triumph of the Fabians. (The connection between the Fabians and Margaret Mead is a little obscure but Mead was a pupil of Franz Boas and apparently accepted his views uncritically according to one account. Boas was prominent in the American Fabians: New School for Social Research.)

      At the end of World War Two Churchill was unceremoniously dumped by the British electorate and England embarked on a peaceful conversion to socialism of the Fabian type. (Communism is socialism imposed at the end of a gun, Fabians impose it by stealth and deceit, Social Democracy imposes it by accident and Fascism imposes it by adding a veneer of a market economy that is tightly controlled by regulation).
      http://www.henrythornton.com/article.asp?article_id=5646

      Where the Global Warming Hoax Was Born

      “Global Warming” is, and always was, a policy for genocidal reduction of the world’s population. The preposterous claim that human-produced carbon dioxide will broil the Earth, melt the ice caps, and destroy human life, came out of a 1975 conference in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, organized by the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in 1974.

      Mead—whose 1928 book on the sex life of South Pacific Islanders was later found to be a fraud—recruited like-minded anti-population hoaxsters to the cause: Sow enough fear of man-caused climate change to force global cutbacks in industrial activity and halt Third World development. Mead’s leading recruits at the 1975 conference were climate-scare artist Stephen Schneider, population-freak biologist George Woodwell, and the current AAAS president John Holdren—all three of them disciples of malthusian fanatic Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb.[1] Guided by luminaries like these, conference discussion focussed on the absurd choice of either feeding people or “saving the environment.”

      Mead began organizing for her conference, “The Atmosphere: Endangered and Endangering,” shortly after she had attended the United Nations Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania, in August 1974. She had already bullied American scientists with her malthusian view that people were imperiling the environment. She wrote in a 1974 Science magazine editorial that the Population Conference had settled this question:

      At Bucharest it was affirmed that continuing, unrestricted worldwide population growth can negate any socioeconomic gains and fatally imperil the environment…. The earlier extreme views that social and economic justice alone can somehow offset population increase and that the mere provision of contraception can sufficiently reduce population—were defeated.

      The North Carolina conference, which took place Oct. 26-29, 1975, was co-sponsored by two agencies of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (Mead had been a Scholar in Residence at the Fogarty Center in 1973.)

      It was at this government-sponsored conference, 32 years ago, that virtually every scare scenario in today’s climate hoax took root. Scientists were charged with coming up with the “science” to back up the scares, so that definitive action could be taken by policy-makers.

      Global cooling—the coming of an ice age—had been in the headlines in the 1970s, but it could not easily be used to sell genocide by getting the citizens of industrial nations to cut back on consumption. Something more drastic and more personal was needed.
      http://carbon-sense.com/2008/09/05/global-warming-hoax-origins/

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    • rah says:

      January 31, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      You can say that again! But after all what members of the public actually worry about Polar Bear “penis bones”? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/joseph-rossell/2015/01/29/lefty-grist-now-claims-humans-literally-breaking-polar-bear-penises

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23. D. Self says:

    January 30, 2015 at 1:53 am

    And Liberals truly believe they are the intelligent.

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24. Jl says:

    January 30, 2015 at 2:48 am

    “With fossil fuels it collapses in 100 years.” What collapses, and how? Data, please. Not speculation.

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