Fear Mongering Is What They Do!

SEE HERE Read a little of this to get a taste of the way that the environmental movement operates. When they start losing the narrative because they really don't have any data to support their over the top doomsday stories, instead of ponying up the data, they just go into carnival mode. This smacks a whole lot more of snake oil salesmen then it does of serious environmental discourse. They only know one way to play the game and that is with shrill voices and Chicken Little rhetoric while calling everyone that opposes them the dupe of some evil power group that they dream up. When I see this kind of thing instead of taking it seriously, I see it as essentially an admission that they don't have the data to support their narrative. If they did, what could be easier than producing it.

When you look at these political Kabuki affairs you have to separate out the facts from the performance. If there are no facts then it's just baloney. Unfortunately for far too many of these causes that's what it is, pure baloney. In some cases there is a shred of truth, but usually even the shred of truth is poorly attested, incompletely understood, over hyped and possibly simply in error. If there is a computer model involved but not all that much data, you're being gulled. The Club of Rome ran their computer models in the 1970s and had us all dead by the 1980s out of food, out of oil, out of natural resources. That seems to not have happened and that's an object lesson about this kind of nonsense.