Mini-Tito propaganda act by Richard Muller on global warming, 'scientifically grotesque'-Calder

Nigel Calder compares Tito's WW2 propaganda coup to global warming darling Richard Muller's 'climate' spoof. Muller softened people up and fooled them. ('Taqiyya, also does this, explained below this post.)

10/22/11, "Hoodwinked by Berkeley Earth, Propaganda Tito Style," Calder Updates, Nigel Calder

"My previous post was too polite about Berkeley Earth. I’d not figured out Richard Muller’s game. The mainstream

• media have have portrayed him as a repentant climate sceptic

who has wonderful new evidence confirming man-made global warming. To see how the story is playing, look for Richard Muller Berkeley on Google News (139 reports and counting).

Normally I try to stick to the science, without being naïve about the politics. Posted earlier on this blog is the text of a talk I gave called “Global Warming is Just Propaganda”, which you’ll find here http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/tradecraft-of-propaganda/

It compares the behaviour of the warmists with the tradecraft of propaganda during the Second World War. And the latest bout from Berkeley and the media

• reminds me, belatedly, of a
  

• manipulation of British propaganda in the Balkans in the early 1940s.
  

For global warming read Stalinism and (at the risk of grossly overstating his importance)

• for Richard Muller read Tito.

Hoodwinking Churchill: Tito’s Great Confidence Trick, by the TV producer and military historian Peter Batty, was published earlier this year. Helped by a Communist mole filtering messages in the British team in Cairo, Tito fooled the West into thinking that he was the hero of the fight against the Italian and German forces in Yugoslavia.

• In fact he was subverting other guerrilla bands, doing deals with the Germans,

and keeping his forces safe for a postwar Communist takeover of Yugoslavia. As Batty relates, Tito secured his 35-year dictatorship by butchering the non-Communist guerrillas who had been the real fighters in the occupied Balkans.

When Richard Muller, leader of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures (BEST) project, gave testimony to the US Congress back in March,

• he called for the creation of an ARPA-like
  

• agency for climate issues.
  

ARPA, more correctly nowadays called DARPA, is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a mighty organization with a $3 billion budget. Climate ARPA (CARPA?) might offer

• a promising niche for a 67-year-old astrophysicist.
  

But if that’s the aim, catastrophic man-made global warming must stay high on the political agenda. How better to go about making sure about that than to call yourself a sceptic,

• just as Tito pretended to be on Winston Churchill’s side.

When the time came to show himself in his true colours Tito was celebrated in the Communist world. Similarly Muller has become an instant hero for the warmists.

Scientifically grotesque was the blurring in the Berkeley press release, as well as in the media, of the meaning of Muller’s main graph, shown in my previous post.

• Invited to comment by New Scientist, I said:

“What do they mean by ‘global warming is real’? The graph of global land temperature changes associated with BEST’s announcement neatly confirms by their independent method that the warming stopped about 15 years ago. The Sun’s recent laziness has apparently cancelled any effect of ever-increasing man-made greenhouse gases.”

• The interviewer commented:

“I take your point about over the last 15 years, but this study is focused on the long-term warming trend which covers a century. How do you account for this long-term warming trend?”

• My reply (which wasn’t reported by New Scientist) was:

“Increased activity of the Sun, of course, from 1950 to the early 1990s as signalled most strikingly by the decline in ionizing cosmic rays at the Earth’s surface. See the red curve (ion chamber) in the attached figure.”

The message about Muller in the media, that “the science is settled (again)”, is completely

• at odds with the evidence.

Reference

Hoodwinking Churchill: Tito’s Great Confidence Trick, by Peter Batty, Shepheard Walwyn (London) 2011."

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Taqiyya includes the art of pre-empting one's opponent to prevent issues from being 'debated or discussed'

"Outwitting:

"Islamic spokesmen commonly use taqiyya as a form of 'outwitting'. The skilled taqiyya-tactician doesn’t want the matter at hand to be debated or discussed; so his opponent must be outwitted or preemptively outflanked by the use of taqiyya. The objective is to divert attention away from the subject through duplicity and obfuscation. "

4/30/07, "Understanding Taqiyya ― Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah," IslamWatch, W. MacKenzie

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