25 thoughts on “Hyperbolic Much?”

  2. Hype is to sell by exaggeration. This is just plain nuts.

    The saddest thing is we don’t actually know enough about climate to make any predictions. If there were enough swing to hot or cold to have a severe effect on life these idiots would be in total control.

    We do know that for thousands of years our climate has supported life including periodic ice ages. This suggests that destroying the global economy for a problem we don’t understand might not be the wisest move.

    Adults? Wisdom? Anyone?

  3. Also, we have yet to establish a means by which global warming seriously inconveniences humanity, much less becomes an existential threat. There’s this huge chasm between the threat described even by pro-AGW climatologists and the urgent existential threat that has Chomsky up in a tizzy.

    Just another doomsday prophet peddling his wares.

  4. Isn’t Comrade Chomsky a fully tenured, pointy-headed elitist too? Why is he not in the administration?

    Notes to humanity:

    1.) Climate change has been cyclic for several billion years.

    2.) The sun is slowly getting hotter.

  5. I was saddened when Howard Zinn died a few months ago. I had so been looking forward to seeing him and Chomsky hanging from adjacent lampposts.

  6. Actually, Chomsky hit the nail on the head when the article quoted him as saying this:

    So why should we believe what these pointy-head elitists are telling?

    Indeed, Noam, indeed.

  7. Actually, Chomsky let the mask slip here. I have always maintained that AGW had nothing whatsoever to do with the climate. From the beginning, it has simply been a tool for destroying capitalism and replacing it with socialism.

  8. I was saddened when Howard Zinn died a few months ago. I had so been looking forward to seeing him and Chomsky hanging from adjacent lampposts.

    Damn, I just spewed my coffee! That was the funniest thing I have read all week!

  10. Chomsky is a classic example of somebody who is beyond brilliant in his field (linguistics) but who is beyond incompetent in just about everything else.

  13. He is a noted linguist? Ok then, he should understand this, “Sir, you are completely wrong, you’ve been wrong about things in American politics for decades, and many of us wish you would please shut your F#^&KING Pie Hole!! Thank you.”

    If they hate the Republicans more, why did they win? Or, in his misguided, leftist mind, does he think we all hate ourselves so much that we LONG for the end of mankind?

  14. “Noted linguist”? Another one of those “big lies” that he and his acolytes and sycophants have repeated so many times that everyone assumes it’s true.

    It’s my understanding that his “theories” have been the equivalent of lysenkoism. The social sciences are going to take centuries to recover from all the pseudo-science Stalinists and Marxists inflicted on them.

  18. Raoul Ortega says: “Noted linguist”? Another one of those “big lies” that he and his acolytes and sycophants have repeated so many times that everyone assumes it’s true.

    Mmmm…that turns out not to be the case. Chomsky really was the scientist that showed conclusively that language was innate in the brain, not something that had to be taught, and that variations among human languages are all surface phenomena – the so-called “deep structure” of language is universal. I recommend Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct for a far better explanation than I can provide. Interestingly enough, Pinker also points out Chomsky’s great shortcoming as a scientist studying language – his refusal to see how our language module could have evolved via natural selection; at the core, Chomsky can’t quite give up the Standard Social Sciences Model of human behavior (see Pinker again, in The Blank Slate, for his demolishing of the SSSM). The same Chomskyian blind spots may be at work in his ludicrous political views.

  19. Hypergolic, people. Not hyperbolic, but hypergolic.

    What do ESPN commentators have to do with this?

  20. I’m noticing a lot of people really believing in the 2012 issue. I think they are idiots, but of course they consider themselves educated. I suspect that they think the Aztecs were some great ancient civilization that was well educated in the astrophysics and metaphysics. And most importantly, they were native people to that land wrongly referred to as America. Although the Aztecs were entirely wiped out by the stupid and murderous Spaniards western European ancestors of the modern day American citizen; the defeat was primarily the dumb luck of carrying infestious diseases. Anyway, the Aztecs were smart, and probably had it figured out correctly, so we are all doomed. Well, doomed less we can figure out how socialism can fix the inevitable. In the past, purging was rather successful in removing the human menace (but let’s not talk about that).

  21. 1) I believe it’s the Mayan calendar that ends in 2012. 2) Which only means that they needed to plot a new calendar. I wonder what New Agers used to do before all this Mayan calendar stuff — have a fit every time December 31st came around?

  24. Chomsky: Republican victory will lead to end of the human race.

    Alan K. Henderson: “I thought Sarah Palin was the biggest threat [to the human race]” (in Rand’s recent post on the Singularity).

    Is the left easy to predict, or what?

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