Resorting to Tactics

Alarmists are all about tactics since the real world data do not support their CAGW bogeyman.

Michael Mann, of Hockey Stick fame, is the latest advocate of the scare tactic.

Warmist guru Michael Mann tells DNC platform committee to use scary propaganda, not science

But he wasn’t the first. Some have long recognized the need as a prime method of political manipulation.  

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken

In the world of CAGW:

"We routinely wrote scare stories...Our press reports were more or less true...We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment." ~ Jim Sibbison, environmental journalist

"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." ~ Daniel Botkin

"That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have." ~ Stephen Schneider

In short, CAGW proponents need to frighten us with tales of a planet in peril to unite us under a single banner with the abject purpose not to save the world but to rule it. Fear is a ruse in use by the encrusted political elite to maintain and strengthen their power over the resources of the world which are to be directed to keep them rich and us poor. But they won’t tell us that because we might not go along with them if we knew the truth.

Members of the elite ruling class lie to get what they want. It is their tactic of choice.

See Chapters 10 and 11 here