Responding to a passage in "On the Right" commenter Stephen describes Unqualified Reservations' Climategate: history's message as a textbook on the bull-goose looney state that is AGW's argument. He's correct. This is an essay that has a touch of greatness about it as well as a finely honed axe driven deep into the forehead of those who would make the world smaller, poorer, and much less free.
If you want to read the ultimate demolition of the temple of AGW, put aside at least a an hour and dive in. A brief taste,
Thus, we see that all three pillars of the AGW syllogism are incapable of providing significant support to any rational argument. Pillar A is irrelevant and probably wrong; Pillar B is feeble at best, fraudulent at worst; Pillar C is irrelevant. Thus, any decision to mitigate AGW on the basis of A, B, and C can only be irrational, ie, insane.It really is a rare tour de force. Posted by Vanderleun at December 18, 2009 7:21 PMDoes this reasoning tell us that AGW (a) is not a real effect, or (b) is not worth mitigating? No. This reasoning tells us that almost everyone arguing for carbon control, since they are relying on some combination of A, B, and C, is jacked up on crack like Superbunny. Their argument is almost entirely unsupported - a real freeway on styrofoam pillars.
There are thousands of individual scientists working on Pillars A, B, and C. Are all these individuals individually insane? Are they getting naked in chicken masks? Of course not. It is the collective institution, your government, which is insane. And it is only insane in the sense that it is not acting, as it claims to be, rationally in the public interest. Its actions, explained in other terms, make perfect sense. We will shortly dive into the emails and see these terms.....
But this essay, frankly, is behind schedule. I have an entire sentence of reconstructed Ouija text to sell. I have only sold the last word - insane. I feel the sale on insane is made. Let's get cracking on incurably.
To see why the insanity is incurable, we need to dig a little deeper into these awful, awful emails. Who are these people? What exactly are we looking at, here? It's certainly not the court of FDR - but what is it?....
You see: I am not at all exaggerating when I compare these people to Stalin. If this section of the essay had a title, it might be Michael Mann: Court of the Green Tsar. Or possibly that Carlylean chestnut, Satan's Invisible World Displayed. What a Satan's world we have before us!
Exhausting, but worth it. Now excuse me while I go lie down.
Posted by: Jimmy J. at December 18, 2009 9:25 PMI skimmed it. Great stuff and a genuinely important historical perspective in there, but it needs an editor. Would reach more people that way.
Posted by: JD Will at December 19, 2009 6:50 AMIndeed it would, but Moldbug seems to refuse all offers of assistance.
Posted by: vanderleun at December 19, 2009 6:58 AMI'll get to this essay later today. I've read Moldbug. He is a genius; a juggernaut's, juggernaut. When he gets on a roll, get out of the way.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at December 19, 2009 8:14 AMHis hero also needed an editor, and a hot woman. Bug's apparently got a woman, so all he needs is the editor. I volunteer you. The unauthorized editor. I'd be surprised if he did not link to it from his post, and maybe evolution will happen.
Thanks, but that's work I only do for money.
Posted by: vanderleun at December 19, 2009 10:04 AMI did not understand you were not one of those who had offered him assistance.
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