Climate Change Scheme in Jeopardy: Scramble on to Retool Messaging Effort
**Written by Doug Powers
Those prayers to Mayan Moon Goddess Ixchel so far aren’t working:
The number of Americans who believe that global warming is a scientific fact has been dropping, and environmental groups and climate scientists who say the evidence for warming is clear are scratching their heads over this reversal and scrambling to find a new strategy.
Three years ago, former Vice President Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for publicizing the threat of climate change with his book and documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth. After that, scientists rejoiced, says Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.
“We in the scientific community by and large said OK, the science debate is over, we are moving our efforts into what we are going to do about it. And that left the science debate in the public largely untended,” he says. “That has been recognized as a strategic error.”
A plot to redistribute the world’s wealth based on a movie produced by a guy who profits greatly from the solution to the “crisis” — why would anybody have a problem with that?
This sounds like the Democrats excuse going into the elections last month when it was clear their takeover ploys were being resoundingly rejected by the voting public: “It’s not that our plan is bad, it’s that we’re not communicating it well enough.”
So the global warmists want help with their message? I ran across this advice to be heeded in the comments at Free Republic:
hyperbole is like antibiotics. If you use it all the time in high doses for everything, and even when you don’t need it, the stuff loses its effectiveness.
Additionally, if the climate change alarmists really want to know what’s wrong with their message, they need look no further than some of the enviro-hypocrites who run their movement. People might be more inclined to believe Al Gore’s “we’re all gonna die unless we cut our carbon footprint” if Gore appeared in the least to believe it himself. Gore admitting that he peddled a super-expensive “green” failure merely for political gain doesn’t help the cause either.
Here’s another messaging problem: Flying people from 194 countries from all over the world to Cancun, Mexico to talk about the need to greatly reduce unnecessary long-haul flights? Those kinds of eco-punchlines don’t exactly make the global warming “threat” reek of immediacy and warm people to the cause. The science is settled.
Update: Another reason for the sudden panic.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Count me in with Letterman’s mom.
So “Bush lied us into Iraq”, and that’s bad, but it’s OK for Al Gore to tell demonstrable lies (see: Mt. Kilimanjaro) in pursuance of far more devastating policies.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Environuts lied and the truth died. They can’t sell the lies anymore. We don’t believe them because they were not truthful about what they really wanted and we’re tired of being forced to buy their worthless products.
This will likely be the last winter for the hoax … God is just LOL at these freaks.
But this doesn’t stop the unrelenting greenwashing of youths and viewers of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet Channel, Science Channel, Green Channel and National Geo Channel — which kids from K-12 are “highly” recommended to view as part of their lessons — utterly unchallenged. Last month my niece’s 4th grade class had an assignment to view a program called “World Without Oil” which after raking the evils of petrol and coal over the coals, ended with freeways full of cheerfully amicable bicyclers in a “new world with a healthier respect for their planet and between ourselves.” It’s all so Disneyesque it’s absurd, but this flower power Green programminmg goes totally unchallanged. They even actively discourage kids from making science fair exhibits of nuclear energy. I already mentioned to you the aburdity of the solar cell powered pinwheel on her class’s window sill that actually has a “save energy” labeled off switch (think that over. Yea, insane message, isn’t it? Or is it kids aren’t supposed to even THINK about that?) So this Gore thing is just a VERY minor setback for his crowd; they’re undermining us far far greater under the radar and our noses.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I’m sorry , but when I first looked at the headline I thought Gore was looking to RETOOL IS MASSAGING EFFORT.
Nope, you communicated it just fine. Your plan is suckage! If suckage were people, you’d be China! (name that ripped off movie quote)
They can’t quantify it, they can’t measure it, but they sure as hell want to tax it! What’s not to like?
It’s taken the scam artists decades to “almost” sell the lie, why would you expect them to give up on their investment of time, talent, and capital?
Not gonna work guys! We do have some brain cells working and your curd isn’t making us all warm and fuzzy. Talk all you want, bho does it daily thinking he isn’t getting the message out. We are sick of bho and sick of your scheme on climate change! How about you guys get dear andy, the bhocare guy, to give it the old you need to get on board here people! I look forward to muting any new ads on this crud.
L
If untended is to be believed, it was only untended because the hucksters pushing this hoax were so arrogant about their ability to foist this on the world.
It actually was not untended, the hoaxers lost once the media was forced to cover Climategate even minimally, yet they continue being arrogant in believing they just didn’t get their message across well enough.
Maybe it’s because a lot of us have been freezing our asses off the last 5 years? Wouldn’t warming be better than cooling? So hey libs, how about it? Just what temperature would you like to have and how much is it going to cost? Ridiculous!
The whole CO2 hoax has been exposed, how is it they still think we’re going to pay?
Whale or crude oil, James?
Wait – not only the obvious idiocy, but a device designed to run on the wind is powered by the sun? The sun is grateful when they switch it off though…
*Man made global warming, still is, and always will be, the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind; And all for the purpose of further redistribution of wealth to all the sorry countries around the world who don’t even know how to make a pot to pee in, but sure know how to pinch a loaf off in the same field in which they harvest their crops; Instead, let’s just give them the King James version and a pocket constitution and see if they can eventually figure it out; Nothing else has worked so far!
Thanks for reporting on this, Doug.
The strategy is much more clearer now. Earlier, I commented that the global warming cult is going one of two ways.
The first is to sigh and quit. It’s the easy thing to do and since in reality liberals know that there is no credible evidence for man-made caused warming worth a salt, hey, it’s the easy way and going easy is the central nexus to all of liberalism.
The second, which is what people who have billions at stake are doing, is to once again, redefine the issue.
The same people who said we would all be floating in ice chunks in the 1970s were the ones who changed their minds and decided we would all roast before a sudden ice age.
Now, these same people are looking to distance themselves from global warming and Climate Gate.
Climate change is the new operation, and this one is handy because any extreme weather event is a cause for it. They’ve come to realize that it does not matter if it’s hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy. Whatever the case is, we now have a villain.
Over the summer i took the family to southern Indiana camping by the lake, hiking, rock collecting. We studied a little geology, showing my 10-year old the limestone formations in the area. We learned how limestone is formed from the shells produced by marine organisms. I helped her pronounce “Calcium Carbonate”, explaining to her the “CARBON-ate” part….
She was ready when Scholastic had the article on AGW. My fifth grader is smart enough to understand the carbon cycle.
WH RETOOL MESSAGING EFFORT MEETING
Spotted Owl Bore: Mr. President, I propose we send a manned mission to the sun to harness its’ enormous energy!
P-BO: But Al, won’t they burn up?
Spotted Owl Bore: Heck no, we’ll send them at night!
Cautionary tale that produced a new moral worthy of Aesop himself:
“Consensus is not science.”
That the planet earth defined the very center of the universe used to be accepted by consensus among the brightest minds at one time. However, science proved they were all wrong.
It only takes one good scientist to prove that consensus among his peers wrong. Good science trumps BS every time.
When I started reading “The skeptics are in the pay of the oil companies”
on AGW web sites, I thought something like “If you can’t give me any better science than that, you ain’t got none” and walked away.
Algore and the rest of his eco-nazi crowd message to the “little people” — a green lifestyle for thee, but not for me.
Hey, Lovey, let’s fire up the Gulfstream; daddy wants to go for a little spin.
Thurston Howell III aka Albert Gore Jr.
How about convening next summit in a Saharan desert town?
In a Desert locale, these FOOLS will get convincing Global warming prop for their cause.
Biggest side benefit?
Few African desert dwellers will earn 2-3 LIFETIME’s worth income from compassionate do-gooders!
I consider it the 2rd biggest hoax after the indulgences The church sold to build St. Peters, and the 77 virgins awaiting the terrorists.
We need to remember that Greenpeace and the Sierra Club ARE the Eco-nazis.
Holy aneurism Batman. I think my brain’s going to explode. What freakin debate are these tools talking about?!? All these cretin will ever say in public is the “sience is settled.” Their hiding like vermin because if they’d come out of their nicely funded labs and actually debate the issue, guys like Malloy at Junk Science and Meyers at Climate Skeptic would clean their climate clocks!
Let’s talk turkey. These cretin don’t give a rats a&& about the planet. If climate panic dies the grant and sponsorship well dries up. Oh Crikey! They’d have to get a real job!
Speaking of Greenpeace, you might find this interesting Mr P. – linked it in another thread. The founder of Geenpeace’ is now strongly endorsing “Eco- Imperialism – Green Power. Black Death.” by Paul Driessen.
Seems the Eco-Nazi movementmay be starting to come unglued along with the AGW folks. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of pinheads.
One of the most amusing attributes of a liberal is when they fail to sell one of their pet causes, they try to change the name to reduce the negative stereotyping…not the message, just the name. As in “there, that’ll fix it”.
Look at the “civil rights” movers and shakers. These demagogues cannot stay focused on what to call people of their own similar heritage. It has been interesting (to say the least) in watching the progression of politically-correct terms used to describe people of Black African or Latin descent.
So as noted, when the “message” is lost and is no longer viable, liberals believe changing the name of the problem will put the awakening public back into dormancy. It’s all marketing. This product is better because it is “new and improved” and says so right on the box.
Look for the new transformation of global warming / climate change phrase. Probably something like atmosphreric molestation…because no one likes a molester.
“Climate Science Gallery.” Is what some British moron wanted to call it. There was another term they tried to adopt but obviously it didn’t stick because I haven’t heard it again since it’s inception (a few months ago), and a ‘net search has been fruitless so far. And I will be damned if I can remember it–but it was hilarious.
Lies are just that, lies.
Was it Climate Disruption?
I think the new buzz definition is ”Climate Chaos” all caused by a super secret group called “The league of Baldheaded men.”
Global Climate Disruption (GCD), better named Global Climate Deception.
Anthropogenic Global Warming is not science any more than Intelligent Design is. It’s not subject to being proved wrong.
However, there are two things about the claims AGW is science that make them more bizarre than the claims ID is science:
1) It is being promoted to be taught as science by people who have no excuse for failing to understand it is not science. Even the most basic education about the scientific method teaches the need for falsifiability.
So the “scientists” who are promoting it are all bold faced LIARS, too, on top of being wrong. They are knowingly perverting the very science they claim to hold in high regard.
2) It is actually being taught in our schools.
This is a good example of why I am a conservative Republican. Sure, there are some outright nutty things on the right …. but they aren’t getting crammed down our throats.
Every Democrat voter is supporting actual, existing policies that are completely nuts.
To paraphrase Zuzu Bailey, “Every time the truth becomes evident, a phony gets his Nobel Prize revoked.”
(urp!) Ugh, I think I feel some chakra rising.
It’s a question of them getting their message out. Specifically:
“Find a convincing lie about the sky falling to keep the fools that vote for us all twisted up, allowing us to accomplish our actual goal of stealing more power from them – and everyone else.”
“Young brains full of mush”
One thing that would vastly improve their credibility is if they would stop harping about our “carbon” (dioxide) footprint, given that methane (much of it from food production) is a much more potent greenhouse gas. But EEEVIL oil is so much easier to attack than food. It really shows more than anything else how much all of this is really just based on hostility to Western prosperity.
By the way Rogue: City Slickers. Recognized it right away.
**** WARNING ****
The lastest angle on this will be a switch to:
“AGW is causing such massive melting in the great ice sheets that the resulting influx of huge amounts of fresh water is shutting down the world’s ocean currents because the natural saline pumps they depend on are shutting down. This is causing the early arrival of a new ice age in Europe and around the world because warm currents are not circulating properly. See? We were right after all!”
Nat Geo and others are promoting this notion as we speak.
I agree, but I would add evolution. It also is not subject to being proved wrong, and woe to the scientist who tries.
Really… that’s their schtick?
If that were the case, then the process would reverse itself. The ocean currents would “shut down” refreezing the ice, restarting the currents.
Eight years ago, I stopped my subscription to this once-brilliant magazine. I have renamed it the “National Geopolitical” and even refuse to watch their cable channel. The infiltraton of libtards into many things I once held dear seems to have no limits.
The general process of evolution (as opposed to pieces of it, like man and the modern apes evolving from a common ancestor) was proved absolutely true beyond any shadow of a doubt by our discovery and understanding of DNA.
We know for certain evolution occurs in microbes. Even most intelligent creationists have accepted that fact. It’s a fact every bit as much as the existence of gravity is now an observable fact.
However, there are many things commonly referred to as “evolution” which are really just hypotheses regarding how evolution may have acted in the development of species vastly more complex than microbes. Many of those things are subject to being easily disproved.
For instance, if we find a fossil of a modern human in the belly of a fossil of an allosaurus, that would pretty well wipe out big chunks of current theory about the development of humans.
Also, btw, warmists are always trying to claim human caused global warming is now an observable fact, but that is sheer idiocy. Even if we observed global warming, that would not mean humans did it, which is what the warmists claim.
So they have to present a theory that can be proved wrong. They have not done so. Thus, AGW “theory” is not science. It is modeling masquerading as science.
I just recieved a notice from my Power Company, informing me that my electric meter is being “Upgraded” to a New “Smart Meter”.
I’ve heard about these meters and I do NOT like what they are capable of doing!!! I LIKE my Old Meter, I can Read it MONTHLY… And it cant be Manipulated easily.
Do I have a right to keep my Old Meter and tell them where to put thier Smart Meter?
Scientists?….I think we really need to work the definition. A scientist collects data and objectively, unemotionally comes up with a theory. If one fudges the data, or ignores relevant data they CANNOT be called scientist. This is so important it goes to our very survival. Let these Non scientists work in the space program and you get a exploding space shuttle, because they emotionally “wanted” the new anti-global warming foam put on the shuttle. The astronauts paid with their lives, we paid for a billion dollar plus shuttle We all are paying much more for everything and have much less freedom because of these so called scientists. If we don’t clean up this definition our continued existence is in doubt.
One more word on True scientists….A True Scientist on space shuttle foam would state some thing like… “according to all available data this new foam should work as well” the Non scientist would say “this new foam Will work and save the planet as well”….with the true scientists you can consider whether the “should” is worth risking the lives of trusting astronauts and the existence of the space program. With the Non scientist you get an unverifiable absolute.