Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Beware the Tactic of Political Activism Based on ‘Science’

I present the following two excerpts, courtesy of The Climate Discussion Nexus:


For God’s sake, do not platform climate denialists. We understand as well as anyone that opinion pages occasionally need to push the envelope with unpopular takes. But there is no longer any good faith argument against climate science—and if one accepts the science, one also accepts the imperative for rapid, forceful action. Op-eds that detract from the scientific consensus, or ridicule climate activism, don’t belong in a serious news outlet.


--Covering Climate Now


The question for CCN and all Climate Crisis-mongers is: Who are these “climate denialists” and what are they saying that the “climate activists” don’t want us to hear? 


There’s an assumption out there that if you “accept” the science of climate change, you are obliged to support drastic measures to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is not true. The one does not follow from the other. Mainstream science and economics do not support much of the current climate policy agenda and certainly not the radical extremes demanded by activist groups.


--Ross McKitrick for The Financial Post


Tyrants have a history of using science to justify their totalitarian designs. The “science” of race was used to justify the enslavement of black Africans, and millions were unjustly enslaved, often brutally. Marxism was justified as “scientific socialism” and 100 million+ died. Nazism was justified by the “science” of eugenics, and tens of millions died. Today, “climate science” is being used to justify a totalitarian agenda, which if developed to its full logical conclusion will result in economic paralysis and collapse, an end to freedom and capitalism, and unlimited unprecedented genicide on a global scale. We should always be vigilant and skeptical against anyone who justifies a political agenda based on science


See below for a brief list of books by so-called “denialists,” which is nowhere near exhaustive.


Related Reading:


Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything by Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger


Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom by Patrick Moore 


Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin 


False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg 


Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Hardcover by Michael Shellenberger 


The End of Doom Hardcover by Ronald Bailey 


The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Hardcover by Alex Epstein 


The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change by Roger Pielke Jr. 


‘Climate Denier’: The Leitmotif of the Climate Propagandist


It’s Time to Listen to the ‘Climate Denialists’


Think Globally, Shame Constantly: The Rise of Greta Thunberg Environmentalism--NICK GILLESPIE


‘Climate Crisis’: The Dem’s Path to Totalitarian Socialism


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