Christopher Pearson, Garth Paltridge, and surrounded by the true church of the satanic vampiric politically correct zombie global warming believers

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Gourmands of the commentariat now have to dig deep in the online edition of The Australian to find the scribblings of Christopher Pearson, but perhaps his latest contribution about climate change will bring him into the sunlight once again.

Because in a late breaking move, Pearson has discovered Garth Paltridge's The Climate Caper, which was launched a full month ago, and unlike Ian Plimer's tome disappeared without much fuss or controversy.

Perhaps it was because it only ran 130 pages in total and therefore lacked the many footnotes Plimer offered up to true believers as hard, firm evidence of his views.

Paltridge certainly didn't capture the attention of the sceptics in any major way. Andrew Bolt naturally gave it a plug back on July 16th (here) but if you go looking for responses on the intertubes, the motley collection will surely disappoint. A real second eleven team.

So it's back to first eleven player Pearson, who under the header Global warming hotheads freeze out science's sceptics, discovers once again that global warming isn't a scientific issue, but a religious cause. Is that because Pearson doesn't have a clue about science, but in his addiction to the holy roman church, is an adept at dealing with theological heresy?

Cutting to the chase, the bit that I most like comes right at the end:

In the last chapter, Paltridge lists some hidden agendas. "There are those who, like president (Jacques) Chirac of France, look with favour on the possibility of an international de-carbonisation regime because it would be the first step towards global government. There are those who, like the socialists before them, see international action as a means to force a redistribution of wealth both within and between individual nations. There are those who, like the powerbrokers of the European Union, look upon such action as a basis for legitimacy. There are those who, like bureaucrats the world over, regard the whole business mainly as a path to the sort of power which, until now, has been wielded only by the major religions. More generally, there are those who, like the politically correct everywhere, are driven by a need for public expression of their own virtue."

Yep, climate change is in the business of black helicopters, socialism, the re-distribution of wealth, the elevation of European Union powerbrokers, rampant power crazed bureaucrats worthy of the major religions and of course the politically correct intent on publicly expressing their virtue.

Well of course we already have world government, in the form of the United Nations. Between a conspiracy and a hopelessly disorganized, inept muddle, it's always possible to see the UN as a benighted muddle. But even so what are to make of the speech by Jacques Chirac to the sixth conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework convention on climate change at the Hague back in 2000 (available here)?

In it, Chirac talks of the French government and the European Union, but cunningly, when he talks of the world, he uses the word governance:

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organisation which France and the European Union would like to see established ...

By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace. We are demonstrating our capacity to assert control over our fate in a spirit of solidarity, to organise our collective sovereignty over this planet, our common heritage. We are working to give practical expression to the ethical demands of our peoples. That is the measure of the immense issues entailed by an agreement, here, in The Hague. It is the measure of the burning obligation on us to succeed.

Of course to the consummate politician or bureaucrat, using governance rather than government in this context, is a cunning way to avoid talk of government. Governance can apply to a business or an NGO or any other organizational structure (yes I exercise good governance within my nuclear structure, which is to say they do what I want, or else ...). You can wiki the term here.

Now of course immediately Chirac said this, and Al Gore chipped in, in his usual chirruping way, you could hear the black helicopters whirring above the heads of the paranoid, but the governance Chirac was talking about - in the context of an organisation dedicated to the world environment - was about the rough equivalent of the World Health Organization. Or say the bulk of the world signing up to a nuclear test ban treaty and then paying inspectors to check up that the treaty was being implemented. Hideous. So much more sane to bung on a regional wild cat war to find the mass destruction weapons the wretched UN couldn't find.

Anyhoo, ignore the fact that Chirac is no longer in power and can't do anything much anyway - concentrate on whether you think he was proposing to use climate change as a way to institute world government, by overthrowing all the state/national governments going around, and replacing them with one universal government, using the relatively strange title World Environment Organisation (as opposed to say World Reich of a Thousand Years, with Chirac as the first rex mundus - that's the hidden, unstated agenda, don't ya know).

Now brood on the strange notion that bureaucrats aspire to the kind of power "which until now" had been wielded by the major religions. Excuse me, exactly what kind of power is that? Well surely there are theocratic states - Iran being the obvious one - but it's been a long time since the papal state has exercised any temporal power outside its own small patch of turf, as opposed to its so called ecclesiastical primacy. So I guess what we're talking about here is the capacity to turn ordinary sensible secular rational people, by way of metaphysical and spiritual powers, into rabid, flesh eating blood drinking politically correct vampiric zombie greenies. Eek, and you thought only transubstantiation did that.

But these musings about governance (and why the hell the COO ran off with the silverware) obscure the many eye openers unveiled by Pearson about the new religion. First of course is the ways organisations such as the CSIRO silence their employees, including Paltridge of course, and Brian Tucker. Which is a neat flip on past news stories about how the CSIRO refused to let its scientists talk about global warming issues such as environmental refugees (catch the stream of 'no comments' at the end of this Four Corners report in 2006).

It seems that the only scientists at liberty to speak their minds are retirees, such as William Kininmonth and Paltridge. Which of course assumes that any scientist who speaks out in favor of the notion of global warming is somehow captured by his or her institution and has been brainwashed to adhere to the politically correct new religion.

The reason? Well they're after the cash. After all the life of a scientist, especially those in the field of research, is driven by an Elysian Field sense of luxury living. Don't worry about the scientific truth, just show me the cash so I can get to my well appointed resting place, and enjoy the however many virgins and free flowing wine that will be funded by my research proposal (not to mention all those free trips to the nightclubs of Antarctica, where the pole dancing is truly polar):

Paltridge says that behind the climate change debate there are two basic truths seldom articulated. "The first is that the scientists pushing the seriousness of global warming are perfectly well aware of the great uncertainty attached to their cause. The difficulty for them is to ensure that the lip service paid to uncertainty is enough to convince governments of the need to continue research funding, but is not enough to cast real doubt on the case for action. The paths of public comment and official advice on the matter have to be trodden very carefully.

Huh? So they need to say global warming is serious, but have to give lip service to uncertainty to keep tickling the till, but not be so uncertain that the case for action is undermined. And this is a world wide conspiracy amongst scientist, to play this elaborate paranoid game? Thousands and thousands of scientists? Well yes, so it seems, and all we can say is what a bunch of doubting Thomases, addicted to the drip feed of the taxpayers' moola like junkies hooked on Antarctic ice.

The second basic truth is that there is a belief among scientific 'global warmers' that they are an under-funded minority among a sea of wicked sceptics who are extensively funded by industry and close to Satan. The difficulty for them is to maintain a belief in their own minority status while insisting in public that the sceptics, at least among the ranks of the scientifically literate, are very few."

Hah. I knew we had to get Satan into the action. But on what paranoid planet would any global warmer true believers think that they're an under funded minority in a sea of wicked Satanist sceptics? When they're constantly pointing out that the sceptics are indeed the minority. Well it's a more convoluted logic than I can manage, claiming that the many are few and the few are many, that the minority is the majority, except when it's the minority of a majority.

Not even in Paltridge's contradictory self-enclosed world, because in the next breath he and Pearson go on to explain how the scientific global warmers get all the cash and the institutional glory, while sob, it's the Satanists who are really the ones out in the sea of cold:

He takes a gloomy view of the likelihood that the political class will soon come to its senses. "One suspects that a fair amount of the shrillness of the climate message derives from a fear that something will happen to prick the scientific balloon so carefully inflated and overstretched over the last few decades. But the IPCC doesn't really need to worry. The difficulty for the sceptics is that credible argument against accepted wisdom requires, as did the development of the accepted wisdom itself, large-scale resources which can only be supplied by the research institutions. Without those resources, the sceptic is only an amateur who can quite easily be confined to outer darkness."

Poor Satanists, locked in the outer darkness, one of the lesser rings of Dante's inferno, most likely. Just a bunch of bloody amateurs. And persecuted and undone, just because they might want a little cash from say a neutral company like Exxon-Mobil, whose contribution to world governance via the Exxon Valdez oil spill will long be remembered. (here).

The Royal Society did its own reputation a disservice by sending a letter to Exxon-Mobil oil corporation declaring an anathema on dissident climate research. It said: "To be still producing information that misleads people about climate change is unhelpful. The next IPCC report should give the people the final push they need to take action and we can't have people trying to undermine it."

Paltridge says: "The staggering thing is that the society, which in other circumstances would be the first to defend the cause of free inquiry ... seemed not to be able to hear what it was saying."

Why am I visited by the phantom voice of Rolf Harris in my head, smiling at the camera as he taps out a tune on a paint can? Trust Exxon-Mobil? Sure can. Well they did such a good job taking responsibility for an oil spill - how many legal challenges did they mount - no way would they do anything to harm the cause of free inquiry. Staggering.

There's more, but we always like to leave a little bit so that gourmands can rush over to the actual read to savour the fragrant truffles dug from the forest floor. Even the hideous politically correct can enjoy the heady fumes, while looking fearfully over their shoulders, wondering if the heavy hand of a Jacques Chirac might land on them as world government is announced and the black helicopters fly over Montana ... and suddenly all their gullible liberalism is swept away as the microchip is driven into their ear lobe, and they're made to join the carbon sequestration chain gang, working day and night for new world governance.

As for the actual science and issues thereto related to global warming? Well as usual, we'll have to leave that for another time, since debates about satanist theology and evil angel governance tend to be exhausting ... but here's some lyrics from the great Sam Cooke, so you can go about your slavery with a song in your heart ...

All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin' down
Working on the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown
You hear them moanin' their lives away
Then you hear somebody sa-ay

That's the sound of the men working on the new global governance chain ga-a-ang
That's the sound of the men working on the new world order chain gang

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