{"id":4371,"date":"2012-01-20T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:27:58","slug":"year-3-month-1-day-20-cry-me-a-river-assholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-1-day-20-cry-me-a-river-assholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 1, Day 20: Cry Me A River, Assholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berthold Recorder (CO) runs a story from Grist detailing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berthoudrecorder.com\/2012\/01\/15\/death-threats-for-climate-scientists\/\">the WATB behavior of conservatives <\/a>who find their shibboleths crumbling into irrelevance under the assault of facts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Prominent MIT researcher Kerry Emanuel has been receiving an unprecedented \u201cfrenzy of hate\u201d after a video featuring an interview with him was published recently by Climate Desk.<\/p>\n<p>Emails contained \u201cveiled threats against my wife,\u201d and other \u201ctangible threats,\u201d Emanuel, a highly-regarded atmospheric scientist and director of MIT\u2019s Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate program, said in an interview. \u201cThey were vile, these emails. They were the kind of emails nobody would like to receive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was a little bit new about it was dragging family members into it and feeling that my family might be under threat, so naturally I didn\u2019t feel very good about that at all,\u201d Emanuel said. \u201cI thought it was low to drag somebody\u2019s spouse into arguments like this.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Swine.  It reminds me of the bullshit Jessica Ahlquist is currently going through.  Sent January 15:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That climatologists are now the target of ideologically driven abuse from climate denialists whose carefully packaged preconceptions are endangered by inconvenient facts is hardly surprising.  <\/p>\n<p>These attacks are of a piece with similar responses from conservatives in other spheres who feel their world-views are under attack, as in the case of a teenaged girl in Rhode Island who successfully sued to remove a prayer banner from her public school&#8217;s wall, and who&#8217;s been receiving threats of violence.  <\/p>\n<p>Her offense?  An accurate understanding of the ideals of her nation&#8217;s founding document, and the temerity to hold an institution accountable to them.  Dr. Kerry Emmanuel&#8217;s offense?  Noting some of the plain facts about global climate change: it&#8217;s real, it&#8217;s our fault, it&#8217;s dangerous, and it needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.  Apparently, conservatives go into grotesque spasms of victimhood the moment they have to deal with logic, reason, and factuality. <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berthoudrecorder.com\/2012\/01\/15\/re-mit-climate-scientist-receives-frenzy-of-hate-mail\/\">Published.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berthold Recorder (CO) runs a story from Grist detailing the WATB behavior of conservatives who find their shibboleths crumbling into irrelevance under the assault of facts: Prominent MIT researcher Kerry Emanuel has been receiving an unprecedented \u201cfrenzy of hate\u201d after a video featuring an interview with him was published recently by Climate Desk. 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