In line with what James Cameron said about “you have your head up your ass” when it comes to climate change, British scientist James Lovelock thinks you are too stupid to solve the problem of climate change.  From the Guardian.co.uk:

I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change,” said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. “The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful.

Do you like that?  You are not as evolved as you need to be to deal with this… you are not as evolved as him or James Cameron obviously because they see it and you do not.  How intellectually elite of them.

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I think it’s funny how this article is worded.  Too stupid to solve the problem of climate change?  I submit that many are not so stupid as to be pulled into Cameron and Lovelock’s religion.  If they want the support of someone like me, all the must logically explain how the Holocene climatic optimum, Roman climate optimum, and medieval warm periods were the fault of humans.

This whole thing boils down to the Saul Alinsky approach of simply ignoring those who do not agree with you because your argument does not hold up.

At one point, I was doing a Google search to learn more about the Holocene and Roman climate optimums, and I had stumbled across a Yahoo Answers question that reminded me of this same tactic.  In the Yahoo Answers question (in which the author asks what the roman climate optimum is, but obviously already has their mind made up that it means nothing) the author refuses to accept any information from those branded a “Skeptic”.

So, if Everyone who dares to say anything contrary about man causing global warming, then the Church brands them a skeptic (or a modern day heretic) and completely ignores what they have to say.  Whilst the “Skeptics” actually come to their conclusions using data from everywhere (generally, there are always examples of bias) the members of the Church of Global Warming pride themselves in ignoring data.

This is lock step in line with James Lovelock’s comment and something Saul Alinsky would be proud of.

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Rules for Radicals, Rule number 5:

Ridicule, especially against organizational leaders, is a potent weapon. There’s no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force concessions.

Too stupid to solve the problem of climate change?  No.  We are too smart to fall for your tactics, and too open minded to limit our information to only the church approved dogma.