The “Sue Us” Petition is up

cite as: F. Bi. 2008. The “Sue Us” Petition is up. Intl. J. Inact., 1:116–117

Well…

On Wednesday I proposed to send the climate inactivists an open letter, asking them to sue Gore and Hansen as they’d threatened to do numerous times. Since I’ve not received any further criticisms about the letter’s wording, I decided to get the petition up and running. Do sign it! :)

As I mentioned before, it’s not easy to conduct a good e-petition, so I’m wondering how I can enhance the petition’s credibility. A relatively quick-and-dirty idea I have is to provide a web button which signers can add to their home pages — perhaps something like this:

…except less stupid. If a signer puts this button somewhere in his home page on his organization’s web site (say), it’ll indicate that he did in fact sign the petition, and the signature wasn’t made up. (Except to those who believe that this is obviously caused by coercion from Ninja Inquisitors sent by the Great Global Warmist Conspiracy, etc.)

Again, what do you think? (By the way, feel free to use the above web button already, if you wish…)

And…

Speaking of climate conspiracy theories, I’d like to talk about Rancourt’s conspiracy theory again.

Ode to a theory unsung and conspiratorial

cite as: F. Bi. 2008. Ode to a theory unsung and conspiratorial. Intl. J. Inact., 1:101–104

This isn’t very new, but from one Professor Denis G. Rancourt comes a climate conspiracy theory which even the self-proclaimed ‘non-mainstream dissenters of the orthodoxy’ will see as non-mainstream — the fringe of the fringe. Well, let’s just say it’s a conspiracy theory from a left-anarchist point of view:

Global warming is often presented as the greatest potential threat to humankind and as the greatest environmental and ecological threat on the planet. It is also presented as a problem that could be solved or contained by determined international collaboration – by political will if it were present.

[...] I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized.

Um yeah, The Truth Is Out There, as they say in The X-Files, and who better to expose the Plain Truth than an individualist leftist anti-government Bakuninist who, well, knows the Truth?