By Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch
Anthony Watts has just confirmed that the US Department of Energy has sent out a ‘hold your documents’ notice to employees and contractors, with reference to the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. I feel a cheery glow, as if I had just tossed another snail darter on the fire.
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By Dalwhinnie
As the science behind global warming evaporates, it becomes necessary to increase the vilification of opposition, while changing the subject. Pull back from any concrete assertions of fact, and sling shit at your opponents from the high ground of self-declared moral superiority.
George Mobiot’s vapourings in this week’s Groniad are a case in point. Observe how he eliminates any middle ground:
“‘Humanity is no longer split between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and progressives, though both sides are informed by the older politics. Today the battle lines are drawn between expanders and restrainers; those who believe that there should be no impedimentsand those who believe that we must live within limits. The vicious battles we have seen so far between greens and climate change deniers, road safety campaigners and speed freaks, real grassroots groups and corporate-sponsored astroturfers are just the beginning. This war will become much uglier as people kick against the limits that decency demands.”
Notice two distortions by which Monbiot frames the debate. First, those who oppose are inherently unreasonable: Read the rest…
