Union of Settled Scientists Threatens to Strike :: SteynOnline
by Mark Steyn
April 1, 2014
Bill McKibben, who leads the anti-carbon group 350.org and has been described by The Boston Globe as "probably the nation's leading environmentalist", seems a bit of a humorless plonker even by the standards of global warm-mongers. But I had to read this piece twice just to make sure it wasn't one of those leaden April Fool's jests the author can't quite pull off. But apparently McKibben means it. Irked by the failure of the world to act on yesterday's IPCC report, he writes:
They've said it with graphs, they've said it with tables. They've offered color-coded guides to future decades. They've told us about basic science and, when that didn't work, they've tried to explain it in terms anyone could understand... They've done their job. (And they've done it for free – working on these endless IPCC reports is a volunteer job). They've warned us, amply. The scientific method, with researchers working hard to disprove each others' hypotheses, has worked. It's yielded a concise answer to a difficult problem in chemistry and physics. When you pour carbon into the air, the planet heats up and then all hell breaks loose. That's basically what you need to know...
So at this point it's absurd to keep asking the scientific community to churn out more reports. In fact, it might almost be more useful if they went on strike: until you pay attention to what we've already told you, we won't be telling you more.
Really? Hey, here's your tree-ring and what's your hurry? Don't let the melting ice-cap hit you in the ass on the way out.
Alas, Bill McKibben may be ready to flounce off in a big queeny huff, but the rest of the Big Climate enforcers are still hanging around, eager to take the tire-iron to Roger Pielke Jr or anybody else who gets out of line. The contempt for freedom of expression from those who (as McKibben's whinge implicitly concedes) can't win the debate grows ever more brazen.
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