Comments on: The Silly-Season’s Soap-Opera Ice-Storm in a Tea-Pot http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/09/the-silly-season%e2%80%99s-soap-opera-ice-storm-in-a-tea-pot.html Challenging Climate Orthodoxy Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:09:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Suzie http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/09/the-silly-season%e2%80%99s-soap-opera-ice-storm-in-a-tea-pot.html/comment-page-1#comment-597 Suzie Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:05:34 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=209#comment-597 I know a lot of people scared to death about climate change, yet nobody bothers to look at the facts themselves! I will be forwarding this article to my friends. Very humourous! I know a lot of people scared to death about climate change, yet nobody bothers to look at the facts themselves! I will be forwarding this article to my friends. Very humourous!

]]> By: Alex Jones' Prison Planet: The truth will set you free! http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/09/the-silly-season%e2%80%99s-soap-opera-ice-storm-in-a-tea-pot.html/comment-page-1#comment-596 Alex Jones' Prison Planet: The truth will set you free! Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:09:34 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=209#comment-596 [...] As we pointed out about the dramatisation of the movement of Arctic ice extent recently, the progression of curves representing climate statistics are the dynamic driving political discourse. The unfolding, present-tense narrative of lines on charts fuels the commentary about the conflict between the bad-minded ‘deniers’, and the honest scientists, seeking to destroy or save the world respectively. The twists and turns of little blue lines excite the audience, and provide superficially important news fodder. It fuels debates, but with wild speculation and utterly meaningless and inconsequential factoids that will be forgotten by the time the next climate record is set. Repeat ad nauseam. These artificial dramas are elevated to ludicrous heights by claims that our entire futures depend on them. Consequently, life imitates this art. The drama extends into our real lives. It becomes politics, ethics, laws. The more we look to little blue lines, the less we realise that whatever little blue lines do only determines what our existences will consist of if we believe that the direction of the little blue line is instructive. It isn’t. [...] [...] As we pointed out about the dramatisation of the movement of Arctic ice extent recently, the progression of curves representing climate statistics are the dynamic driving political discourse. The unfolding, present-tense narrative of lines on charts fuels the commentary about the conflict between the bad-minded ‘deniers’, and the honest scientists, seeking to destroy or save the world respectively. The twists and turns of little blue lines excite the audience, and provide superficially important news fodder. It fuels debates, but with wild speculation and utterly meaningless and inconsequential factoids that will be forgotten by the time the next climate record is set. Repeat ad nauseam. These artificial dramas are elevated to ludicrous heights by claims that our entire futures depend on them. Consequently, life imitates this art. The drama extends into our real lives. It becomes politics, ethics, laws. The more we look to little blue lines, the less we realise that whatever little blue lines do only determines what our existences will consist of if we believe that the direction of the little blue line is instructive. It isn’t. [...]

]]> By: JMW http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/09/the-silly-season%e2%80%99s-soap-opera-ice-storm-in-a-tea-pot.html/comment-page-1#comment-595 JMW Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:47:40 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=209#comment-595 "The twists and turns of little blue lines excite the audience, and provide superficially important news fodder. It fuels debates, but with wild speculation and utterly meaningless and inconsequential factoids that will be forgotten by the time the next climate record is set. Repeat ad nauseam. [...] If ethics, politics, and society is formed according to the twists and turns of blue lines because we decide that it ought to be, then sure enough, history will be determined by little blue lines. We will make ourselves vulnerable to climate in order to prevent climate change catastrophe. The fact is that human history occurred in spite of the direction of blue lines." But then, for some people, science isn't so much about expanding and refining our understanding of the natural world so much as it is to justify and vindicate their personal "ism", to prove that liberalism/conservatism is right, and therefore the other side is wrong. Like you've said, science is the fig leaf used to justify whatever the person[s] is/are using it for. Knowledge and understanding don't even enter the picture, let alone given initial consideration, because they don't care about that. All they want science to do is to help them win against the other side. That's all it exists for, in their minds. The facts, the poor people, the endangered species, and the isolated regions of planet Earth themselves be damned. “The twists and turns of little blue lines excite the audience, and provide superficially important news fodder. It fuels debates, but with wild speculation and utterly meaningless and inconsequential factoids that will be forgotten by the time the next climate record is set. Repeat ad nauseam. [...] If ethics, politics, and society is formed according to the twists and turns of blue lines because we decide that it ought to be, then sure enough, history will be determined by little blue lines. We will make ourselves vulnerable to climate in order to prevent climate change catastrophe. The fact is that human history occurred in spite of the direction of blue lines.”

But then, for some people, science isn’t so much about expanding and refining our understanding of the natural world so much as it is to justify and vindicate their personal “ism”, to prove that liberalism/conservatism is right, and therefore the other side is wrong.

Like you’ve said, science is the fig leaf used to justify whatever the person[s] is/are using it for. Knowledge and understanding don’t even enter the picture, let alone given initial consideration, because they don’t care about that. All they want science to do is to help them win against the other side.

That’s all it exists for, in their minds.

The facts, the poor people, the endangered species, and the isolated regions of planet Earth themselves be damned.

]]> By: Andy http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/09/the-silly-season%e2%80%99s-soap-opera-ice-storm-in-a-tea-pot.html/comment-page-1#comment-594 Andy Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:32:35 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=209#comment-594 Sharply observed chronicle of an eco-disaster real life soap opera. I'm waiting for the part when JR (Ewing) wakes up from a coma and declares, "So it was all a bad dream!" Sharply observed chronicle of an eco-disaster real life soap opera. I’m waiting for the part when JR (Ewing) wakes up from a coma and declares, “So it was all a bad dream!”

]]> By: Fred http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/09/the-silly-season%e2%80%99s-soap-opera-ice-storm-in-a-tea-pot.html/comment-page-1#comment-593 Fred Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:22:01 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=209#comment-593 Fisking the great kayaker . . . http://tinyurl.com/5edufk Fisking the great kayaker . . .

http://tinyurl.com/5edufk

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