In Aspen, Colo., old school
enviros who helped create the wilderness movement are fighting pitched battles against other environmentalists who support a 1 megawatt microhydro plant that would generate 8 % of the city's power.
My general sympathies may lie with libertarians, but I don't want to be like the preachy locavore who reaches for the imported Scotch or the pious
enviro who drives his Prius back along a freeway to his metropolis after a weekend at his fussily organic country farm.
Not exact matches
Greenpeace and others are trying to impose a still stricter 80g / 100 km maximum here in Europe, what makes me wonder if these
enviros will ever be happy with an achievement, or continue to ask for the impossible, regardless of the difficult job of the scientists and engineers
who made the first reduction happen.
And that is really the challenge to many of you
who blame
enviros or others for not letting more drilling and exploration occur or more nuclear power plants get built.
Neither Gelbspan nor anyone repeating his accusation ever proved the money trail led to an industry directive to lie about global warming science; none of them have proved skeptic climate scientists were instructed to mimic tobacco industry tactics; journalists have demonstrably not offered overall fair balance in to skeptic climate scientists; the «wedge» being driven is one arguably pounded by
enviro - activists
who push the «skeptics don't deserve fair media balance» talking point; and Gelbspan was not the first one to bring up this talking point.
Pt 7, «Cancerous Greenpeace / Desmogblog / Gelbspan Stuff»: What's detailed in this post is how Dave Rado's Ofcom complaint is first and foremost pushing absolutely nothing more than guilt - by - association «evidence» to indict skeptic climate scientists of industry - funded corruption, and secondly, how Rado, much like any other prominent accuser, is enslaved to an accusation narrative which ultimately relies on sources
who repeat material which inevitably traces back to Ross Gelbspan and the clique of
enviro - activists surrounding him when he and they got the first real media traction for the accusation.
But look far more carefully into this, and the widening situation around it leads to a maddeningly tangled source situation that ultimately does nothing to alleviate the problem of the smear of skeptic climate scientists — including efforts to discredit the Oregon Petition — appearing to be intertwined with a small clique of
enviro - activists
who have barely any separation from Ross Gelbspan.
Bill McKibben, for one, has argued that
enviros need to spend more time targeting the «the guys with the money
who pull the strings,» like the Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers.
But such an award could be earned by objective unbiased investigative reporters for turning the tables on
enviro - activists
who fed that accusation to media people
who never questioned it.
Spend even the briefest effort doing a combined internet search of the words «Exxon» and «climate change», and it becomes abundantly obvious that
enviro - activists have long believed Exxon is a fundamental threat to the planet (full archived text here), and now that Exxon's CEO —
who supposedly has overseen a climate denial machine (full text here) over the last decade — has been tapped by President - elect Trump to be Secretary of State, we should be terrified of him.
enviro - activists
who could see their beloved issue dying at the hands of skeptic scientists» detailed climate assessments if nothing was done to stop them.
There will be some
enviro - activists
who may use it as a cudgel to beat rejectionists over the head without much critical assessment of the research.
To quash the notion that no valid scientific criticism exists against the idea of man - caused global warming,
enviro - activists often say «denier scientists» are paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about the issue, insinuating a parallel to expert «shills»
who did the same for «big tobacco».
Enviros are putting a lot of faith in Podesta - maybe rightly so, but he's not the one
who could be president.
and how this old situation has a direct tie to
enviro - activists» current efforts to use racketeering laws to persecute people
who criticize the notion of catastrophic man - caused global warming.
Mad
enviros give Soros and Hansen and Suzuki others
who incite violence through divide and rule tactics a bad name, so I guess they have to be shot beofre it become obvious that «green» equals Malthusian depopulation to those
who need little to push them over the edge anyway, as well as to many seemingly «sane» greens now advocatin the greening of hatred, and its efficacy in immigration policy — a separate topic but how convenient to have a target that has to «go» first, because they are «worse» than «us»??? Exactly how did poverty level immigrants often without any cars become the main culprit polluters in the USA, more recently the Un-united States of Annihilism?
In Germany I could mention Schellnhuber (supposedly climate scientist)
who is an eminent IPCC support and at the same time a political
enviro extremist.
Just as an example, I know of 4 cases only in France where a public statement against IPCC recommendations and conclusions by a scientist had triggered open letters and hate propaganda of IPCC members,
enviro advocay groups and AGW believers
who virtually asked for public lynching of the heretic.
But what does basically every
enviro - activist believe about front groups, no matter
who backs them?
AGW skeptics routinely stand accused of having closed minds by
enviro - activists, yet
enviro - activists are the ones
who routinely shun counterpoint skeptic material.
Regarding one set of litigators
who are making the accusation argument on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Colorado lawsuits, I already covered the EarthRights group's connections to the «Skeptic - Trashing
Enviro - Activist clique» in my April 26, 2018 blog post's second half.
Such rebuttal material was probably viewed as potentially fatal for
enviro - activists, and from all I've found, it appears they took a practically unknown pilot project PR campaign from the Western Fuels Association and blew it out of all proportion in order to have some kind of plausible - sounding «evidence» for their claim that skeptic climate scientists were no different than the paid shill experts
who claimed cigarette smoking was not especially harmful.
Not according to
enviro - activists and Al Gore,
who basically summarized the situation in a way nobody could misunderstand:
As of yet, disgraced scientist Peter Gleick has not appeared in public to receive the award the
enviro - left would like to give him for his willingness to commit crimes in the service of destroying all
who present real science.
Ummm... After all the breathless press releases for each «it's worse than we thought» climate science paper, after all the «we are all going to die» editorials by
enviro - wacko - advocate / scientists, and after all the obvious efforts to silence and / or ostracize ANYONE
who disagrees (eg the UEA emails, or Judith's experiences), it would be shocking if Bengtsson did not suffer the consequences of a climate fatwa.
You might want to add a few corporations like BP (the 7th largest corporation on the planet) and Shell to your list of «
enviro - nazis» and «left - wing loonies»
who believe that Anthropogenic Global Warming is real and well supported by sound science.
Like the more daring Israel - based green group
who plays with civil disobedience once and while, Green Action, Heschel's
enviro teachings are intricately intertwined with social issues - which are ones that no one can ignore in this densely populated country.
And
who at Greenpeace or any other
enviro - activist place has ever shown anybody absolute indisputable proof that industry money was paid in exchange for specific lies and fabricated reports?
Not so fast, if you just consider two basic questions:
who at Greenpeace or any other
enviro - activist place has ever clearly shown that any particular skeptic science assessment is absolutely a lie?