Comments on: It’s a Growing Disaster! It’s a Looming Catastrophe!! It’s… UN Science!!!

By: spynverzyon

spynverzyon — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:39:12 +0000

Note that Mr. Alleg does not actually say where Ms. Rosett’s post uses language that Orwell would criticize; he simply dismisses it as “crap” and invokes some unspecified “irony” on the presumption that anyone who disagrees with him is “oblivious.”

But of course, this is the standard liberal trope, now fully deployed in the Global Warming Campaign: invoke an unsubstantiated presumption (”scientific consensus”) and vilify anyone who disagrees (”climate deniers”). Orwellian irony, indeed.

As for holding UN operatives to the standards of accountability and probity that apply to most ordinary folk, that would seem to be out of bounds. Perhaps these great champions of egalitarian justice and moral relativism are simply “more equal” than the rest of us.

By: Henri Alleg

Henri Alleg — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:11:19 +0000

It’s a wonder that you can write crap like this, have a link on your page to Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” and be oblivious to the irony.

By: bourne2y

bourne2y — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:35:03 +0000

Let the record show (and by golly, it does show) that no one has chosen to sit by the beach in one of those. . . chairs . . . or has dropped by to partake of luncheon-by-the-sea.

That’s because, I suppose, the delegates are busily working in their famous 20-hour a day sessions that have no agenda. No public agenda, that is.

By: R. S. Ellis

R. S. Ellis — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:16:20 +0000

Considering that the UN is led by a majority representing the very worst forms of government (tyrannies, cleptocracies, terrorist regimes, etc), is there any wonder that the UN has the credibility of an atheist the day after the rapture?

By: LSD

LSD — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:44:46 +0000

Dead-on as usual, Claudia!

If there is anything more fightening than the specter of global warming, it might just be what people try to do about it. If science, as a discipline, is going to serve mankind, then scientists need to resist the tug of politics.