{"id":6085,"date":"2014-11-16T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T21:38:43","slug":"old-timey-thumpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/old-timey-thumpin\/","title":{"rendered":"old timey thumpin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Krugman: China, Coal, Climate<\/a><\/h4>\n
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman opines 11-13-14:<\/span><\/h5>\n

“understand the defense in depth that fossil-fuel interests and their loyal servants \u2014 nowadays including the entire Republican Party \u2014 have erected against any action to save the planet.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

False implication – Republicans want to destroy the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The first line of defense is denial”<\/span>
\n “cabal including thousands of scientists around the world”<\/span>
\n “witch hunts against climate scientists”<\/span>
\n “crazy conspiracy theory”<\/span>
\n “economic scare tactics”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Denial, cabal, witch hunt, crazy conspiracy, scare tactics – a whole string of unsupported ad hominems.<\/span><\/p>\n

“the right\u2019s usual faith in markets”<\/span>
\n “we\u2019re supposed to believe that business can transcend any problem, adapt and innovate around any limits, but would shrivel up and die if policy put a price on carbon.”<\/span>
\n “Still, what\u2019s bad for the Koch brothers must be bad for America, right?”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ridicule. False implication that markets are inefficient. False implication that carbon taxes would not suppress economic activity. “Koch brothers” ad hominem fallacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

“a \u201cwar on coal\u201d as if this were self-evidently an attack on American values, but the reality is that the coal industry employs very few people. The real war on coal, or at least on coal miners, was waged by strip-mining and natural gas, and ended a long time ago. And environmental protection is quite popular with the nation at large.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"north_pole_cartoon_med\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Multiple false redefinitions of “war on coal” – first that it’s about coal miners, second that environmental protection means using less coal.<\/span><\/p>\n

“the last line of defense, claims that America can\u2019t do anything about global warming, because other countries, China in particular, will just keep on spewing out greenhouse gases. “<\/span><\/p>\n

“climate denialists controlling Congress “<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ad hominem attack against Republican majority.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Not to mention the possibility that the next president could well be an anti-environmentalist who could reverse anything President Obama does.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

False implication that whatever Obama does helps the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

This language rolls off Krugman’s keyboard without a hint of hesitation or thought. It’s a practiced script of leftist memes and mantras – a liturgy that Krugman recites like a high priest. In Elbert County Krugman’s acolytes surround us, parroting their high priest, proud, cocksure owners of the liturgy, thumping their keyboards – “oh the science, the science” – like preachers at a tent revival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elbert County is filthy with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thing is, the standard these grubers set for the right doesn’t even rise to the level of a caricature. Instead, we get windows into mean little nobel prize winning minds that would be pitiable if not for all of the malice therein.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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