Global Warming - A Case Study in Groupthink

The bizarre issue of climate catastrophism has been around sufficiently long that it
has become possible to trace its history in detail, and, indeed, several excellent recent
books do this, placing the issue in the context of a variety of environmental,
economic and political trends. Darwall’s Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots
of the Climate Industrial Complex and Lewin’s Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The
Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deserve special mention in
this connection. Booker’s relatively brief monograph asks a rather different but profoundly
important question. Namely, how do otherwise intelligent people come to
believe such arrant nonsense despite its implausibility, internal contradictions, contradictory
data, evident corruption and ludicrous policy implications. Booker convincingly
shows the power of ‘groupthink’ to overpower the rational faculties that we
would hope could play some role. The phenomenon of groupthink helps explain why
ordinary working people are less vulnerable to this defect. After all, the group that the
believers want to belong to is that of the educated elite.

     --- From the Foreword by Professor Richard Lindzen:

Professor Lindzen was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of GWPF.

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 21, 2018 at 12:02pm

"Rupert Darwall has told a story of frauds and fools thoroughly and well. His truth may be inconvenient for some. For the rest of us, it is a breath of fresh air."
– Clark Judge, The American Spectator

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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