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"Eppur si muove"
Did you turn off all your lights last night for “Earth Hour?”
If not, Gawker’s Adam Weinstein wants you arrested. In the spirit of Cardinal Bellarmine, he even invokes Italian courts as precedent.
Oh, he makes exceptions for “[Idiots,] …too stupid to do anything other than choke the earth’s atmosphere a little more with …[their] Mr. Pibb burps and …[their] F-150’s gassy exhaust.” No, he won’t arrest those fools. At least not at first, but their crimes are the only ones he specifies.
I, for one, am happy I do not drink Mr. Pibb, and I’m putting off any purchase of an F-150.
Weinstein proposes arrest and punishment (inquisition goes unmentioned) only for “the body of purulent pundits, paid sponsors, and corporate grifters who exploit the smallest uncertainty at the edges of a settled science.” I suppose he will decide who those miscreants are by carefully identifying the most minuscule uncertainties in a science rife with uncertainty (just ask the IPCC). He doesn’t mention any particular uncertainties, so we are left to wonder what might get us arrested. Maybe he will propose setting up a federal shibboleth panel to adjudicate.
He leaves unexplained why he exempts ‘idiots’ from his demand that “Those malcontents must be punished and stopped.” Ignorance of the law is typically no excuse.
He doesn’t mention Chinese coal power plants. Surely, all involved there should be arrested.
Maybe he’s just temporarily waiving the ‘individual incarcerate’ until the new regime is up and running, and can persecute a few good examples. Perhaps he wants to be sure there’s an exception to punishing thought crimes and free speech of which he can avail himself when the next IPCC report admits the climate change models are garbage, and the previously predicted extinctions are neither happening, nor likely to.
If true to his prejudices, Mr. Weinstein will have celebrated “Earth Hour” last night. Perhaps he lit a candle, a part of the ritual for many.
If so, he negated his intent to reduce CO2 emissions. Worse, when the ceremony ended, he contributed to the ensuing power surge: Another good way to produce more CO2 than would have been the case without the obeisance to the Church of Environmentalism.
Like carbon credits, observing “Earth Hour” is a means of obtaining a “feel good” indulgence from the Church. As Cardinal Bellarmine instructed Galileo, Mr. Weinstein says we cannot “hold or defend” views contrary to those of the Church.
Power on Hour
Tonight is “Earth Hour,” when environmental extremists and useful idiots invite us to sit quietly in the dark and share the guilt of being human. This ritual of shame promotes original sin as doctrinized by the Church of Environmentalism.
So, be sure to turn all your electric lights on between 8:30 and 9:30 to celebrate the ingenuity of man and the blessing of electricity.
A great, short article on this by Canadian professor Ross McKitrick can be found here. Recommended reading.
Environmentalism as religion
And as taught in our government schools. Recounted by a conservative teacher.
An Earth Hour followup
I would have included a link to this in my March 28th post if I had known about it then.
The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
…Politicians and environmentalists, including those behind Earth Hour, are not calling on people just to change a few light bulbs, they are calling for a truly massive reduction in carbon emissions–as much as 80 percent below 1990 levels. Because our energy is overwhelmingly carbon-based (fossil fuels provide more than 80 percent of world energy), and because the claims of abundant “green energy” from breezes and sunbeams are a myth–this necessarily means a massive reduction in our energy use.
People don’t have a clear view of what this would mean in practice. We, in the industrialized world, take our abundant energy for granted and don’t consider just how much we benefit from its use in every minute of every day. Driving our cars to work and school, sitting in our lighted, heated homes and offices, powering our computers and countless other labor-saving appliances, we count on the indispensable values that industrial energy makes possible: hospitals and grocery stores, factories and farms, international travel and global telecommunications. It is hard for us to project the degree of sacrifice and harm that proposed climate policies would force upon us.
Read the whole thing.
We are intended to feel guilty because we are not starving in flimsy huts, because there are some humans who think the Earth contains too many human beings for the comfort of spotted owls, because WE are causing global warming climate change. I wonder how the people actually starving in flimsy huts feel about the Western environmentalists’ insistence that they continue to starve in those huts?
It is vital that when you support the environment you do not support these promoters of poverty, misery and death.