tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post7616448787326375005..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Crisis of Life websiteMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-74131190189776669462010-10-18T00:21:00.993+08:002010-10-18T00:21:00.993+08:00Mike, Lomborg is a fraud and a shill. I suggest yo...Mike, Lomborg is a fraud and a shill. I suggest you read his bio on Sourcewatch. Walther was too kind.Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15488826116399835682010-10-17T22:26:31.617+08:002010-10-17T22:26:31.617+08:00You didn't like the soviet reference? Fine, re...You didn't like the soviet reference? Fine, resubmit:<br /><br />Were I a leftist like you Turton, I would be very wary of associating myself too strongly with Bruno Walther. I do not believe him to take particular care over either the accuracy or sincerity of the claims he makes. He is the worst sort - a liability, a bit like that environmental 10:10 group in the UK making videos where they blow up little kids and claim it's funny and in a good cause. <br /><br />On December 21st last year, he accused Bjorn Lomborg of being an "anti-environmentalist"; simply not true. Even I am not an "anti-environmentalist" and unlike me, Lomborg actually believes the AGW hypothesis to be true.<br /><br />In the same article, just four months after the Climate Gate scandal broke, he accused Lomborg of perpetrating "..one of the worst cases of scientific fraud in the history of environmental writing." A touch of the Freudian slip, perhaps?<br /><br />On September 22nd this year, he revealed what must surely be a willful ignorance of basic economics when he wrote: "...pursuing economic growth... is becoming counterproductive... logic dictates that growth simply cannot go on forever on a limited planet." The man is a profound ignoramus; does he know nothing of the failed predictions of Paul Ehrlich? <br /><br />And earlier this year on June 22nd, he managed a mesmerizing combination of obvious transparency with slithering deviousness in his character assassination of me in the Taipei Times. He knows full well (or perhaps not at all) that the government in Zimbabwe massively devalued the currency in addition to countless other monstrosities, and yet he had the sheer barefaced cheek to cite that country as an example of what I would regard as a low-tax paradise. <br /><br />If you read this Walther - you're perfectly welcome to reduce your <i>own</i> carbon footprint permanently. Just don't expect anyone else to follow you.mikehttp://www.mirrorsignalmove.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com