Posted by
The Interface on Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:45:02 PM
Perhaps in response to the obvious irony of the situation, the Globaloney™ Warming community has chosen to alter their terminology while maintaining the underlying basis of their faith. The verbal gymnastics, however, fail to fool all but the foolish who rely only on feelings and not on facts. You know this is the case with it starts to appear in the cartoons:
This last one points to the extreme disconnect from reality revealed by the adoption of this strategy. Philosophically, it’s called the
Asylum of Ignorance. It is the condition in which one will hold to a position regardless of any evidence to the contrary even if the contrary evidence is acknowledged, e.g., George Bush must have caused Katrina even though no man to date has been able to create and direct a hurricane of any scale. The strategy of using a term that can apply to multiple mutually exclusive situations allows for an ambiguity in which anyone can project their own views on the situation and still be within the verbal boundaries of the terminology. It is another way of reducing language to meaninglessness while maintaining the appearance of intelligence and respectability. In this case, the irrationality is aptly summarized by this picture: