Krugman On Science Denial

On Monday, the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation published another inane Paul Krugman op-ed accusing Republicans of being science deniers on mythical AGW.

Future historians — if there are any future historians — will almost surely say that the most important thing happening in the world during December 2015 was the climate talks in Paris. True, nothing agreed to in Paris will be enough, by itself, to solve the problem of global warming. But the talks could mark a turning point, the beginning of the kind of international action needed to avert catastrophe.

I guess that means future historians will ignore the massacre of Parisians by Mooslime terrorists. After all, the greatest threat facing the world today is mythical climate change. Let’s ignore the fact that we are facing WWIV, the war between Islam and Western Civilization. It’s not WWIII, that was the Cold War and we won that one. While these booger eatin’ moh-rons accuse us of being science deniers for not falling for the AGW scam, they are reality deniers for not realizing that we are at war with Islam. Not radical Islam, but Islam.

Then again, they might not; we may be doomed. And if we are, you know who will be responsible: the Republican Party.

Nope! If we are doomed it will be the Dimocrat Party and those on the left who deny the reality that we are at war with Islam.

O.K., I know the reaction of many readers: How partisan! How over the top! But what I said is, in fact, the obvious truth. And the inability of our news media, our pundits and our political establishment in general to face up to that truth is an important contributing factor to the danger we face.

And that danger is not the weather like Krugman believes. It is Islam.

Anyone who follows U.S. political debates on the environment knows that Republican politicians overwhelmingly oppose any action to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, and that the great majority reject the scientific consensus on climate change. Last year PolitiFact could find only eight Republicans in Congress, out of 278 in the caucus, who had made on-the-record comments accepting the reality of man-made global warming. And most of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are solidly in the anti-science camp.

Wrong dude! They are actually in the science camp because the “science” of global warming has not been proven and has to be faked, like the hockey stick graph. Totally debunked. Or the BS 97.5% of scientists poll which is also bogus. Just the other day, Obungler came up with a 99.5% statistic. Did he just pull that one out of his ass? Or the fact that global temperatures have not increased in the past thirteen years. That is why there were memos from Michael Mann and the other climate charlatans about having to “hide the decline”. Or the refusal of these people to release their raw data. This is not science.

What people may not realize, however, is how extraordinary the G.O.P.’s wall of denial is, both in the U.S. context and on the global scene.

I often hear from people claiming that the American left is just as bad as the right on scientific issues, citing, say, hysteria over genetically modified food or nuclear power. But even if you think such views are really comparable to climate denial (which they aren’t), they’re views held by only some people on the left, not orthodoxies enforced on a whole party by what even my conservative colleague David Brooks calls the “thought police.”

David Brooks a conservative? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. He supported Obumbler and just the other day wrote a column in support of Thunder Rodent Thighs. As for science denial, he’s correct on nuclear power and GMO. Let’s also not forget the left’s scare on vaccines causing autism. That great scientist Jenny McCarthy assures us that that is true. Animal rights. No differences between genders. We can get all of our energy from wind and solar and other renewable energy. Burning food. Creating ethanol from corn is one of the stupidest ideas ever especially since it uses more energy than it creates. The list goes on and on about how unscientific the left is.

And climate-denial orthodoxy doesn’t just say that the scientific consensus is wrong. Senior Republican members of Congress routinely indulge in wild conspiracy theories, alleging that all the evidence for climate change is the product of a giant hoax perpetrated by thousands of scientists around the world. And they do all they can to harass and intimidate individual scientists.

It is a hoax Paul and a very good one. Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW has made a lot of money off of this junk science. And, as Don Surber sez, I’ll start believing this is a crisis when the people telling me it is start acting like it is. Pope Albert is a giant energy hog. In just one of his mansions, he uses more electricity in a month than the average family of four does in a year. Think of the carbon footprint of this massive junket going on in Paris what with all of the private jets flying to and from the conference. Think of the energy being used at the conference, the giant SUVs transporting attendees to and fro, and all of the gourmet meals being consumed. If this were really a crisis wouldn’t it make sense to use the internet and not have people creating a big carbon footprint?

In a way, this is part of a long tradition: Richard Hofstadter’s famous essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” was published half a century ago. But having that style completely take over one of our two major parties is something new.

No it isn’t. The Dimocrats have been demagoguing Social Security for years. They say Republicans want to throw grandma off a cliff. It’s that way every election what with Republicans being “mean spirited”. I guess it’s OK when your party does it. There is a psychological term for this Paul. It’s called projection. As Rush Limbaugh once said, “If you want to see what Dimocrats are doing, look at what they accuse Republicans of doing.”

It’s true that conservative parties across the West tend to be less favorable to climate action than parties to their left. But in most countries — actually, everywhere except America and Australia — these parties nonetheless support measures to limit emissions. And U.S. Republicans are unique in refusing to accept that there is even a problem. Unfortunately, given the importance of the United States, the extremism of one party in one country has enormous global implications.

Limiting emissions. Like limiting the emissions of all of those private jets going to and from Paris?

By rights, then, the 2016 election should be seen as a referendum on that extremism. But it probably won’t be reported that way. Which brings me to what you might call the problem of climate denial denial.

The extremism of the left. The extremism of political correctness. The extremism of denying the danger of Islam. Denying the fact that Islam has been at war with us since the 7th Century. ISIS, Iran, and, yes, Saudi Arabia know that they are at war with us. We have a party that refuses to see that threat and thinks that the way to solve the problem of Islamic terrorism is to weaken our military and disarm our citizens while at the same time importing Mooslimes into our country. Your priorites are backwards Paul. You are the denier here.

Some of this denial comes from moderate Republicans, who do still exist — just not in elected office. These moderates may admit that their party has gone off the deep end on the climate issue, but they tend to argue that it won’t last, that the party will start talking sense any day now. (And they will, of course, find reasons to support whatever climate-denier the G.O.P. nominates for president.)

What about moderate Dimocrats? There are none of those. None! The Dimocrat Party has gone so far to the left they think communism is mainstream. I hope that the Dimocrat Party will start talking sense any day now, but that ain’t happening. They think mythical AGW is more important than the threat of Islam.

More important, probably, is the denial inherent in the conventions of political journalism, which say that you must always portray the parties as symmetric — that any report on extreme positions taken by one side must be framed in a way that makes it sound as if both sides do it.

But both sides do do it.

We saw this on budget issues, where some self-proclaimed centrist commentators, while criticizing Republicans for their absolute refusal to consider tax hikes, also made a point of criticizing President Obama for opposing spending cuts that he actually supported. My guess is that climate disputes will receive the same treatment.

WTF? SJWs always lie and Krugman is no exception. And climate disputes are not receiving the same treatment. The LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party favors mythical AGW.

But I hope I’m wrong, and I’d urge everyone outside the climate-denial bubble to frankly acknowledge the awesome, terrifying reality. We’re looking at a party that has turned its back on science at a time when doing so puts the very future of civilization at risk. That’s the truth, and it needs to be faced head-on.

We’re looking at a party, the Dimocrat Party, that has turned its back on the reality of Islamic terrorism which is what really threatens civilization. Junk science like AGW is no reason to cripple our economy which is what the left and idiots like Krugman want.