(Lost Argument, Resorting To Cricket Bat)
Longrider remarks upon the Alex Lockwood micromeme (can we still say ‘micromeme’ on the internet?):
The green lobby has become more vociferous in its attempts of late to shut down dissenting voices… likens dissenters to troofers and conspiracy theorists… idiots like George Monbiot coming out with the crackpot notion that there exists a denial industry.
The AGW enthusiasts have lost the argument, and that is why they are resorting to the cricket bat.
As to industries, and the influence of the oil industry in particular, this article by Patrick Vessey suggests that the oil industry does indeed spend lavishly in order to get its way, but not by subsidising the likes of us.
The Devil, reflecting on why he was kind to Lockwood (I had been wondering myself), says:
Why the hell aren’t oil companies throwing their filthy lucre at me?
Exactly. Where the hell’s my cheque?
Oh, and while we are about it, who is throwing the filthy lucre at pro-AGW “scientists”? Would that be governments? And Green NGOs (mostly funded by our governments)? Why, yes; yes, it would.
This is the ‘industry’ in question. There has been a scientific coup, in which the trendy followers of AGW have ousted the old guard. They have turned to governments and the media with their scare story, quietly pointing out to governments the opportunities for vastly increased regulation and taxation. People have gone along with it, because their televisions told them to. A college of cardinals, the IPCC, has been established as the arbiter of doctrine. Completely monopoly of opinion and policy seems to be within their grasp.
Then wicked, unlicensed bloggers dig up shedloads of inconvenient technical revelations which suggest rather strongly that the whole thing is and always has been a con, and that the so-called ’science’ upon which it is based will not hold hot air, let alone water.
Of course the AGW racketeers are going to have their now dependent governments censor such challenges. They’ve got to, really. The monopoly must be protected. They’ve done a very successful con and now lots of cushy, well-paid jobs, lots of celebrity status, lots of telly, lots of money and generally lots of lovely power depend on it.
If there is any filthy lucre being dished out by the “denial industry” could I have some, please?
These allegations, as they become increasingly desperate, will at some point become actionable.
If anyone is being paid by the oil industry (or anyone else) to ‘deny climate change’, then those payments ought, in the majority of countries, to be declared for tax purposes.
Since there’s no record of any such payments to ordinary skeptics (unlike those to governments), one must assume that the alleged recipients are effectively being accused of a form of tax fraud, having presumably received an attaché case full of used banknotes in the customary Mafia idiom and never said a word.
I’m not a suing man myself, but I think I’m in yet another minority in that. Perhaps someone will take one of these arrogant so-and-sos to court.