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Global Warming Marketing Circus Comes To Town
This week it’s the UN and the pandering circus of scientists willing to say and do anything to get funded and get their grants renewed. Beloved eggheads, for all you do, this Winged Digit is for you.
The dedicated researchers at JunkScience.com have uncovered yet another scam in the ongoing marketing mental whitewashing campaign that passes for media coverage on the global warming debate. The fact is, global warming is occuring. What’s up for debate is the cause of the warming — natural process or manmade?
But here’s the part where I want you to pay attention. See if you can spot the tailing wagging the dog . . .
“First, the UN isn’t releasing its full report this week – just the curiously edited “Summary for Policy Makers.” The detailed report on the science won’t be issued until May or so because it’s not finished.
If you’re wondering how the UN can issue a summary of a report that’s not even finished, fear not. The UN has announced that changes to the full report shall be made “to ensure consistency with the Summary for Policy Makers.” The UN process – akin to shooting first and asking questions later – is the exact opposite of the traditional scientific method.”
Did you catch that? Changes will be made to the full, actual report in May to make sure it reflects the preliminary, inconclusive summary findings being released this week.
A-mazing that anyone can get by with this reasoning unchallenged.
5 words for those bozos and it’s why they’re this week’s Flying Fickle Finger Of Fate* winners!
Sal-ute!
Click the link to read the full article. I just clipped out the part with the most egregious ‘What were they thinking’ part. There’s more. Much, much more. Source: FOXNews.com - Climate Change’s Carnival Atmosphere
* = The ROI Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award is only given to the most deserving of its dubious distinction — usually the powerful and the stupid. And usually those two adjectives describe the same person. Typically these include political and media personalities and oh yes, marketers and advertisers — most notably the media sausage-makers of Madison Avenue.
And with this post, wingnut scientists on both sides of the humans-suck-and-we’re-to-blame-for-global-warming debate have been added to the Hapless Hand’s Hallowed Hall Of Fame.
The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award first appeared on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In and was a statue of a hand with a single digit pointing. It sat on a base and rotated in a “Whoopee!” circular motion. The Rigid Digit, Winged Weenie, Wonderful Wiggler, Friendly Phalange and Nifty Knuckle (among numerous other aliases) were given out by hosts Dan Rowan and Dick Martin for the dumbest news item of the week.
By Walter |
Topics: Flying Fickle Finger Of Fate |