The Green’s Black Op and what it says.

There is no doubt in my mind that the hoax perpetrated by David Thorpe is just one aspect of the Green Movement’s Black Operations. A very mild Op to be sure, but what it really does is expose the true intentions of the Green Movement.Yesterday I asked Thorpe, on one of his blogs, the following question:

So David, you put up a very nicely composed fraud and then you lied about it. Why?

I mean, when you told Reuters :

“We’re just the website design company,” said David Thorpe at Cyberium in Wales, listed as the administrator of the site. “I don’t know anything about the content. We were just asked to put the website up.”

That wasn’t true. Was it?

Care to share the who, what and when…or was this just a clever attempt at viral marketing for your new book?

He replied by directing me to his other blog. Thelowcarbonkid. The first post I found there announced that he had been accepted as a freelancer by the Guardian and that this had happened prior to the hoax. I posited at Blue Crab Boulevard that this might be a problem for David Thorpe.

Now, if it’s true that he accepted this status on November 4th then he may have just found himself in a trick-bag. It explains much of his denial. Even the Guardian is going to wary of hoaxers after the last several years of journalists being caught “making” news. I don’t think he is afraid of losing his job, rather he is afraid of losing his new higher visibility soapbox. Look what the Guardian has done for George Moonbat Monbiot.

Today, finally, David Thorpe has posted the reason he perpetrated that hoax.

The sceptics can be divided into two camps: those who base their arguments on a good and transparent understanding of the science and economics; and those who don’t, instead attacking the proponents on personal grounds. And they do get extremely vituperative.

I recently collaborated in an elaborate hoax – called “a spoof that puts the fun back into lying about science” by desmogblog – that was intended to smoke out the latter sort. It was so successful it was syndicated across 600 radio stations in the US.

The post appeals to those that want reasoned debate on Climate Change and what the solution should be.

Regardless of what is the cause of global warming, most agree that it is occurring. So whether human beings caused it or not, it still needs to be minimised and adapted to.

In his post David Thorpe appears to be very reasonable. However, if you look at the rest of his writings he is anything but.

Basically economic growth and sustainability are incompatible. It’s like trying to get cats and mice to get on with each other.
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Meanwhle, the logic from all of this leads to the conclusion that only one thing will reduce our overall energy use: personal carbon trading with a yearly reduced overall cap.

This will be because there will no possible way to use more energy. No choice. Nada.

Like the spoilt child, we should be banned from playing with our dangerous toys, and learn to do more with less.

The air of reasonableness is a facade. Look at Thorpe’s column at the Guardian. What these people really want when they talk about “no growth”, “locally sourced food” and “sustainability” is a return to a time when communities had only themselves to rely on. They traded with no one. The last time we lived that way was called The Dark Ages. And the time before that were the communities that lay outside of Mesopotamia during the reign of Hammurabi.

Frankly, with some of the court rulings and actual real science disputing much of what Al Gore and the rest claim, folks like Thorpe, anti-consumerist neo-Luddites, are getting scared. They worry that they may not end up dragging us back to the hunter-gatherer state of life. And they will do anything prevent that failure.

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