Tuesday, October 8, 2013

SOUNDS TRUTHFUL, LOOKS RESPECTABLE, & APPEARS SOLID



As if existential threat inflation on the left hand side of the Climate Wars were not enough, the new beau ideal of Onionspeak is hoisting his own petard at WUWT:


Lindzen: Understanding The IPCC AR5 Climate Assessment

Guest essay by Dr. Richard Lindzen
Each IPCC report seems to be required to conclude that the case for an international agreement to curb carbon dioxide has grown stronger. That is to say the IPCC report (and especially the press release accompanying the summary) is a political document, and as George Orwell noted, political language “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”