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#1 | MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:50 pm

"An MIT professor of meteorology is dismissing global-warming alarmists as a discredited �cult� whose members are becoming more hysterical as emerging evidence continues to contradict their beliefs.

During an appearance on this writer�s radio show Monday, MIT Professor emeritus Richard Lindzen discussed the religious nature of the movement.

�As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that�s what�s happening here. Think about it,� he said. �You�ve led an unpleasant life, you haven�t led a very virtuous life, but now you�re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It�s salvation!�

Lindzen, 74, has issued calm dismissals of warmist apocalypse, reducing his critics to sputtering rage.

Last week, government agencies including NASA announced that 2014 was the �hottest year� in �recorded history,� as The New York Times put it in an early edition. Last year has since been demoted by the Times to the hottest �since record-keeping began in 1880.�

But that may not be true. Now the same agencies have acknowledged that there�s only a 38 percent chance that 2014 was the hottest year on record. And even if it was, it was only by two-100ths of a degree.

Lindzen scoffs at the public-sector-generated hysteria, which included one warmist blogger breathlessly writing that the heat record had been �shattered.�

�Seventy percent of the earth is oceans, we can�t measure those temperatures very well. They can be off a half a degree, a quarter of a degree. Even two-10ths of a degree of change would be tiny but two-100ths is ludicrous. Anyone who starts crowing about those numbers shows that they�re putting spin on nothing.�

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...lievers-a-cult/

Allahu Akbar" is Arabic for "Nothing to see here"~~Mark Steyn explaining the reaction of Obama, Hollande, et. al., to Muslim terror attacks.

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#2 | RE: MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:04 pm

For this they moved the so-called "Doomsday Clock" up two minutes? This is the equivalent of North Korea getting a nuke? These people are clearly insane. They must be kept away from power, pets and small children.

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#3 | RE: MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:16 pm

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�As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that�s what�s happening here. Think about it,� he said. �You�ve led an unpleasant life, you haven�t led a very virtuous life, but now you�re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It�s salvation!�

This is spot-on.

He's so right about them becoming more and more fanatical, too. Have you ever attempted to have a conversation about global hoaxing with one of its true believers?

And this is no longer limited to the individual cult member. Entire corporations have bought into this earth worshipping green scam and an employee's head can roll if he/she expresses a deprecatory opinion of the cult.

Interesting times we're living in.

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#4 | RE: MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:29 pm

Quote: Rev wrote in post #3
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�As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that�s what�s happening here. Think about it,� he said. �You�ve led an unpleasant life, you haven�t led a very virtuous life, but now you�re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It�s salvation!�

This is spot-on.

He's so right about them becoming more and more fanatical, too. Have you ever attempted to have a conversation about global hoaxing with one of its true believers?

And this is no longer limited to the individual cult member. Entire corporations have bought into this earth worshipping green scam and an employee's head can roll if he/she expresses a deprecatory opinion of the cult.

Interesting times we're living in.

I think that in some cases corporations have become "true believers," but I think in more cases than not, they are just jumping on the PR/marketing bandwagon.... when a company senses that something becomes "popular" in the culture, they are all over it....

f

Basically supporting no one at this point!!

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#5 | RE: MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:08 pm

Quote: Rev wrote in post #3
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�As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that�s what�s happening here. Think about it,� he said. �You�ve led an unpleasant life, you haven�t led a very virtuous life, but now you�re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It�s salvation!�

This is spot-on.

He's so right about them becoming more and more fanatical, too. Have you ever attempted to have a conversation about global hoaxing with one of its true believers?

No, I haven't.

**
Rich Lowry, Nov 30, 2014 on �Meet the Press� Sunday, National Review editor

Stop trying to make the Ferguson protests something they weren�t. And, just as importantly, stop trying to make Michael Brown, the man shot to death during a fight with police Office Darren Wilson in August, something he wasn�t.

�If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic ... don�t rob a convenience store. Don�t fight with a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun. And when he yells at you to stop, just stop.�

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#6 | RE: MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:32 am

Quote: FWP wrote in post #4
Quote: Rev wrote in post #3
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�As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that�s what�s happening here. Think about it,� he said. �You�ve led an unpleasant life, you haven�t led a very virtuous life, but now you�re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It�s salvation!�

This is spot-on.

He's so right about them becoming more and more fanatical, too. Have you ever attempted to have a conversation about global hoaxing with one of its true believers?

And this is no longer limited to the individual cult member. Entire corporations have bought into this earth worshipping green scam and an employee's head can roll if he/she expresses a deprecatory opinion of the cult.

Interesting times we're living in.

I think that in some cases corporations have become "true believers," but I think in more cases than not, they are just jumping on the PR/marketing bandwagon.... when a company senses that something becomes "popular" in the culture, they are all over it....

f

I suspect it's a combination of motivations.

Some leaders of corporations are probably true believers.

Some members of the buying public will avoid products not officially labeled ''green', .

Also if a corporation doesn't tow the PC line, they will suffer a fate similar to a corporation not paying Al or Jess their 'I'm not a racist' fees.

There are probably also financial incentives, such as tax breaks for going 'green', and lucrative government contracts open to believers.

Illegitimi non Carborundum

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#7 | RE: MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a �Cult� datum

Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:37 am

Quote: Rev wrote in post #3
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�As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that�s what�s happening here. Think about it,� he said. �You�ve led an unpleasant life, you haven�t led a very virtuous life, but now you�re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It�s salvation!�

This is spot-on.

He's so right about them becoming more and more fanatical, too. Have you ever attempted to have a conversation about global hoaxing with one of its true believers?

And this is no longer limited to the individual cult member. Entire corporations have bought into this earth worshipping green scam and an employee's head can roll if he/she expresses a deprecatory opinion of the cult.

Interesting times we're living in.

Isn't that a Chinese curse ?