Re: [Phys-L] Will APS be the first major scientific institution to reject the global warming 'consensus'?

[Ze'ev Wurman <zeev@ieee.org>]

On 3/21/2014 3:53 PM, John Clement wrote:
> "Jingoistic" is loaded pejorative term that should
> not be used.  I just shuts off debate, and diminishes the credibility of the
> user.
Precisely.

So why exactly did *you* write that "first reference is from a blog that 
is obviously written by a denier" rather than "by a skeptic"? Not 
because it is a loaded pejorative? Not because you wanted to diminish 
the blogger's (and anyone quoting him) credibility? Not because you 
wanted to "shut off debate"?

The most funny thing is that you, in all your earnestness, seem not even 
to perceive the symmetry of what you yourself were doing. I, in 
contrast, quite consciously used the pejorative term "jingoistic 
warmers" (should have been "warmists," I guess) to egg you on.

Incidentally, I used the term "propaganda" because is accurately 
describes what you engaged in, not for any other reason.

Ze'ev