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    Global Panic Marketing Heating Up

    In response to my recent expose of how Gore and Newsweek magazine blatantly lied and mis-reported the coveted ROI Flying Fickle Finger Of Fate awardthe facts (respectively), I got an snarky anonymous comment on my blog from someone whose email address was fake and I suspect the name was, as well — so “she” goes without mention.

    And as you long-time readers know, my policy is, if someone can’t stand beside their own words then I don’t allow the comments to go public. Though someday I may take them all and do some posts on the kind of trash I keep off the blog, like Michelle Malkin did in her book Unhinged.

    All this person wrote was “It’s about the science” and included a link to the IPCC website. Nice to know “she” put so much thought into her argument. I’m sure the local debate team has her on speed-dial.

    Well, as I reported on the sham organization back in March, the (now widely discredited) UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a politically-driven organization, not a scientific one.

    Though somehow the “Greens” in their efforts to conserve paper, probably didn’t read that report. Probably still too busy trying to figure out how to use Sheryl Crow’s “1 square a day” toilet paper plan.

    Now I know I shouldn’t pick on Sheryl. I mean, as one of Global Warming’s Warrior Elites whose tour entourage consists of three tractor trailers, four buses, and six cars ( . . . and a partridge in a pear tree) — she’s gotta save where she can. She chooses to start in the potty.

    Just watch those handshakes, boys and girls.

    But I digress . . .

    The Facts As They Stand

    Let us not forget that IPCC contributor John Christy is on the record as saying this about fellow climate scientists, We have a vested interest in creating panic because money will then flow to climate scientists.”

    University of London biogeographer Philip Stott is also on the record, stating that “If the global warming virago collapses, there will be an awful lot of people out of jobs.”

    If you want to read what’s factual and what’s not about the IPCC report, there are a number of watchdog organizations providing balance with the facts. I liked The Fraser Institute’s report because it seemed one of the most credible.

    And back here, I even awarded the scientists who participated in the IPCC report the famed No-Prize of No-Prizes — the coveted Fabulous Flying Fickle Finger Of Fate*. Hey nothing says ‘I believe you” like the Wondrous Winged Digit showing up on your doorstep!

    So my response to the person lacking the backbone to stand beside “her” words, “No, it’s about the facts.”

    * = 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 or organization. Typically these include political and media personalities and oh yes, marketers and advertisers — most notably the media sausage-makers of Madison Avenue.

    The original 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.

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    By Walter |

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