This morning I cancelled a non-refundable return flight from to Toronto to Chicago. The following explains why:
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Well here’s the problem. My name – and the name of my book – is currently on the same page of the Heartland website where the above quote appears. Without prior knowledge or informed consent, my work has been aggressively associated with this odious ad campaign.
Forget disappointment. In my view, my reputation has been harmed. And the Heartland thinks it has nothing to apologize for.
Adding insult to injury, it proclaims that it will “continue to experiment” with how it presents its message. That’s all well and good. But being collateral damage in someone else’s ongoing marketing experiments isn’t my idea of a good time.
Heartland made a huge mistep with that ad campaign. The best thing to do is just admit they made a mistake and move on.
If you are going to continue to play nice nice with the climate alarmist intellectual thugs you all deserve to lose. Unfortunately, it will be mankind who will lose its hard won technological civilization if you continue to play nice. There is no substitute for total victory and a vanquished enemy!
We are in a back ally gun fight to the death. You don’t survive such things by bringing marshmallows and willow sticks prepared to have a beach party. You come prepared to fight, take no prisoners, and win at all costs. Nice always looses in such things. War is hell and loosing is worse.
I would disagre, Lionel. Heartland and the skeptics have made the gains that they had BECAUSE they are polite and reasoned an present rational arguments in a thoughtful manner. Going to these tactics loses their support, but the opposition has already made up their minds.
It’s the same with oil companies. Disney movies may present oil companies as evil monstrosities (Cars 2 was such a dissappointment). However, oil companies don’t fight that image because in fighting, you don’t convince anyone that truly thinks you are evil.
Look at Exxon’s website on the Valdez cleanup. Well presented, good information. Gorgeous pictures. However, the greens think that it’s a bunch of hoey.
This campaign cost them allies that they can ill afford to lose while gaining them NOTHING.
We haven’t made any gains Ben, you only think we have. Yet today the EPA is systematically destroying the fossil fuel industry because of “climate change”. Eurpope is trying to globalize its carbon reduction scheme by applying huge fines to every foreign airplane that flies in and out of Europe, and the Dept. of Energy refuses to permit any drilling leases on federal land. And on, and on.
We aren’t winning anything. If Heartland can make people understand what complete whack-jobs these alarmists are, I am all for it.
Lionell is right. These enviros will ride herd all over anybody they feel like “for their own good.” Mainstream media, Obama admin, greenie groups give them license to do it. Nobody stands up to it.
The good guys used to win in the movies. But only in the movies. You want to win you fight fire with fire. We know the quality of those warmists involved. They are lacking in principles or any ethical standard. They are what they are and they have to be stopped. Remember the liar is the first to defend his veracity and thief his honesty. So sic ‘em!!!
As a matter of strategy and tactics, it’s always essential to learn from the enemy. We have learned that the freakish ad hom tactics of the warmists backfire badly.
Kick ‘em while their down, before they get back up. The threat is not gone. Ridicule is a necessary tool in the box. Comparison of these Malthusian thugs to Hitler may be ugly, but factually correct regarding radical Green philosophy. It is inappropriate to use on uninformed environmentalists and other assorted useful idiots and followers. Pick specific targets but tone down the rhetoric for that target audience, while publicly hammering the leaders with their own Malthusian views. More power to Heartland and Donna L., stick together and help us defeat these eco-fascists.
A better way to ridicule would be to take on the prominent alarmists and juxtapose their predicitons with reality.
“According to Mann, we should have had 10 feet of sea level rise since 1990. We’ve had 6 inches. He now thinks that we will have an apocalypse. How good is this man at seeing the future?” .
That’s effective ridicule. On the other hand, a small child would reightfully dismiss this advertisement.
Donna, I think it would be a good idea for you to stay home, wipe your nose, and pout.
As far as I know, Donna, nobody from Heartland has been telling you what to do.
Nor you, Ross McKitrick.