{"id":11316,"date":"2012-02-02T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2012-02-02T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:56:45","slug":"osama-morano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/02\/osama-morano\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama Morano?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate alarmist Keith Kloor compares ClimateDepot&#8217;s Marc Morano to the Taliban.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kloor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collide-a-scape.com\/2012\/02\/02\/climate-debate-has-gone-mad\/\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Technically, the U.S. is waging a counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, trying to win over the populace with a hearts &amp; minds campaign while also taking out the hostiles. For various reasons, it\u2019s become a rather futile effort that military analysts can explain better than me.<\/p>\n<p>But here are some of the parallels with the climate war. The Taliban, like Morano, are fiercely puritanical. They are not averse to cleansing their own side. Morano has shown that in the Republican Presidential campaign, where he\u2019s gone after GOP candidates who once were in favor of taking action on climate change. Not coincidentally, global warming has become a litmus test for Republicans in this election year.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban, like Morano, are excellent provocateurs. They don\u2019t have the manpower to go toe to toe, but they have successfully goaded the U.S. into committing what some experts have called \u201down goals.\u201d So it is with the climate movement, whose public spokespersons tend to  fan the flames that perpetuate the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Now before I go any further, let me state outright that I am not equating Marc Morano\u2019s tactics with those of the Taliban. The latter is comprised of a brutal, extremist culture that terrorizes its own people in horrific ways. Morano merely uses excessive rhetoric and hyperbolic language to advance his aims. He runs an operation that has a political aim: To delegitimize climate science. To do that, he and his allies engage in a propaganda war that goads his opponents and smears the reputations of individuals prominently associated with the climate change cause.<\/p>\n<p>His tactics, while ugly, can in no way whatsoever be compared to the actions of the Taliban. I\u2019m merely saying that he is an insurgent who (with like-minded allies) has successfully forced the other side into a defensive crouch. The climate concerned community is fighting a battle on on his terms.<\/p>\n<p>Morano-inspired fighters, like the Taliban, have also convinced themselves (or pretend to) that they are winning the war against their foes&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collide-a-scape.com\/2012\/02\/02\/climate-debate-has-gone-mad\/\">Read Kloor&#8217;s entire screed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate alarmist Keith Kloor compares ClimateDepot&#8217;s Marc Morano to the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-2Ww","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}