It’s a good article and good advice. I do quibble about making a universal strategy of “not using the left’s language.”
For example, with regard to the transsexuals-in-womens’-sports dispute, I think it perfectly fair and rhetorically correct to say:
“I have to follow the science on this. Male bodies have different, denser skeletons; larger hearts, faster more responsive and “twitchy” muscles, and more. These difference begin in the womb and just get more pronounced through puberty. No scientist ever claimed to me that surgery, hormones, and social acceptance, in any combination, could alter these concrete and objective facts. ”
With regard to climate change, I think it’s fair for the Right to assert that “Fossil fuels represent the right side of history. Coal and steam engines replaced slave and serf labor on the world’s farms. Petroleum replaced whale oil and saved an entire Mammalian Order from extinction. In the latter half of the last century, mechanized farming and petro-based fertilizers allowed Norman Borlaug to falsify Left-ists’ predictions of Famine in India and China. In our current century natural gas extracted via fracking has allowed the United States to make history, and set records, in reduction of Carbon Emissions, both absolute and per capita. Hydro, Wind, and Solar power certainly have a place — in the history books. But true progress between now and the 22nd Century can’t be accomplished by setting out for madmen Quixotic targets and quotas and treaties and narratives about more giant windmills.”
Etc. The left chooses language that works. But they use it to lie. Take back the language, and the facts.
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“Fossil fuels represent the right side of history.”
stop referring to methane as a “fossil fuel”.
“Titan is the only body in the Solar System beside Earth with bodies of liquid on its surface, in the form of methane–ethane lakes in Titan’s north and south polar regions.” https://infogalactic.com/info/Moons_of_Saturn
maybe oil too but don’t let the fanatics control the language
Methane is certainly not a fossil fuel at least as well as we understand what fossils are. And I think your conjecture about crude oil may also be on target. I think the “settled science” on the genesis of petroleum needs a hard look. If crude is discovered on moons or planets with no history of biological activity maybe we’ll finally get some serious reconsideration of geologic processes.
Thomas Gold will probably be proven correct, eventually.
It is strange that in the Progressive Fascists’ effort to cater to certain groups, they end up dehumanizing vast populations. How deep in the cult do you have to be to strip women of their motherhood?
Progressive Fascists’ effort to cater to certain groups,
I think you have grammatical error there. Here let me fix the typo and construct issue for you:
“Progressive Fascist’s effort to crater certain groups…”
So, “carbon fuels” ?
Hydrocarbon fuels. These include coal, which includes long-chain hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbon fuels is accurate.
Btw, I published a story in the April/May 2007 Asimov’s that does an extensive workup on the possibilities of abiogenic “oil” in carbonaceous asteroids (basically, tidally processed CHON in binary bodies). Unfortunately, I called it “The Rocket into Planetary Space” in honor of Oberth’s book, which has led to some search engine confusion (you have to add my byline to the title to turn it up).
It’s a good article and good advice. I do quibble about making a universal strategy of “not using the left’s language.”
For example, with regard to the transsexuals-in-womens’-sports dispute, I think it perfectly fair and rhetorically correct to say:
“I have to follow the science on this. Male bodies have different, denser skeletons; larger hearts, faster more responsive and “twitchy” muscles, and more. These difference begin in the womb and just get more pronounced through puberty. No scientist ever claimed to me that surgery, hormones, and social acceptance, in any combination, could alter these concrete and objective facts. ”
With regard to climate change, I think it’s fair for the Right to assert that “Fossil fuels represent the right side of history. Coal and steam engines replaced slave and serf labor on the world’s farms. Petroleum replaced whale oil and saved an entire Mammalian Order from extinction. In the latter half of the last century, mechanized farming and petro-based fertilizers allowed Norman Borlaug to falsify Left-ists’ predictions of Famine in India and China. In our current century natural gas extracted via fracking has allowed the United States to make history, and set records, in reduction of Carbon Emissions, both absolute and per capita. Hydro, Wind, and Solar power certainly have a place — in the history books. But true progress between now and the 22nd Century can’t be accomplished by setting out for madmen Quixotic targets and quotas and treaties and narratives about more giant windmills.”
Etc. The left chooses language that works. But they use it to lie. Take back the language, and the facts.
+42.
+11
+16
“Fossil fuels represent the right side of history.”
stop referring to methane as a “fossil fuel”.
“Titan is the only body in the Solar System beside Earth with bodies of liquid on its surface, in the form of methane–ethane lakes in Titan’s north and south polar regions.”
https://infogalactic.com/info/Moons_of_Saturn
maybe oil too but don’t let the fanatics control the language
Methane is certainly not a fossil fuel at least as well as we understand what fossils are. And I think your conjecture about crude oil may also be on target. I think the “settled science” on the genesis of petroleum needs a hard look. If crude is discovered on moons or planets with no history of biological activity maybe we’ll finally get some serious reconsideration of geologic processes.
Thomas Gold will probably be proven correct, eventually.
It is strange that in the Progressive Fascists’ effort to cater to certain groups, they end up dehumanizing vast populations. How deep in the cult do you have to be to strip women of their motherhood?
Progressive Fascists’ effort to cater to certain groups,
I think you have grammatical error there. Here let me fix the typo and construct issue for you:
“Progressive Fascist’s effort to crater certain groups…”
So, “carbon fuels” ?
Hydrocarbon fuels. These include coal, which includes long-chain hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbon fuels is accurate.
Btw, I published a story in the April/May 2007 Asimov’s that does an extensive workup on the possibilities of abiogenic “oil” in carbonaceous asteroids (basically, tidally processed CHON in binary bodies). Unfortunately, I called it “The Rocket into Planetary Space” in honor of Oberth’s book, which has led to some search engine confusion (you have to add my byline to the title to turn it up).