I hereby propose the William Happer Award for Best Mixed Analogies

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. I hereby propose the William Happer Award for Best Mixed Analogies. Intl. J. Inact., 2:53–54

The Cato Institute’s Orgone Petition, which claims to ‘correct’ US President Obama on the facts of global warming, continues to provide comic relief.

On Wednesday, Cato’s Jerry Taylor wrote a reply to New York Times, Climate Progress, RealClimate, etc. complaining about how “climate alarmists” aren’t judging the petition according to the “merit” of its argument, but are instead assigning “motives” to “the arguer” and counting votes among scientists. Well, for one thing, Taylor, there’s the salient question:

If the petition is only about its scientific arguments, then why does it need 100+ signatories — won’t one person be enough?

Then again, as any right-thinking right-winger will know, this question is merely a ‘distraction’ from more serious issues! Namely, the metaphors that Taylor uses (underlines mine):

And now, the Orgone Petition

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. And now, the Oregon Orgone Petition. Intl. J. Inact., 2:50–52

The global warming ‘skeptics’ are at it again. RealClimate reported that the neoliberal Cato ‘Institute’ was spamming climate scientists in order to get signatures for its petition against global warming regulation. And now that the petition’s published, we have the International Climate ‘Science’ Coalition claiming that the petition was signed by “over 100 climate scientists”.

Now, the petition has 115 signatories, including