I am sadly disappointed by the alarmists. I was led to believe we would have weeks of laughing at crazy videos, demos and generally idiocy from the alarmist camp, but just two days after the encyclical the news is dead with nothing more than a few stragglers and a couple of ridiculous rather than amusing stories.
This has been one of the shortest duration peaks I’ve seen for any news story on global warming.
I am now seriously wondering weather the “run up” to the Dead Parrot talks this December will turn out to be more of a “run down”.
Come on alarmists – you’re getting shed loads of public funds – what on earth are you doing with it except paying expensive marketing consultants to sit around on their fat arses?
Indeed, there’s so little news, I am starting to wonder whether it is possible that this is intentional. Have the alarmists got some idiotic academic (Lewandowsky springs to mind) producing “research” that suggests that if they keep quiet and don’t tell anyone about global warming, then that’s the way to revive the dead parrot and make the world population born again global warmists?
Indeed, it does seem that every time there is a high profile media campaign like this encyclical, that rather than increasing support, the result is that even more sceptics appear! So, there is a kind of perverse logic that says that keeping quiet about global warming will cause everyone to believe!
Think of all those emotions going through warmist minds. Fear that this message comes too soon and will have no impact by December. Joy that such a big organisation has backed them. Ambivalence that a religious leader will be associated with their science. Depression that the world has largely shrugged and ignored it.
Oh the dilemma. Build up the excitement or bore people to tears.