A Manufactured Consensus

If you cruise the blogosphere as I do, looking at liberal weblogs, and you happen to read posts and comments regarding global warming, it will certainly look as though everybody agrees that man made greenhouse gases are destroying the planet and we must do something right now or we will fry.

But this consensus is false. They achieve this by deleting the comments and banning the posters of contrary opinions. They censor the opposition. The ones I have seen do this include:

Brad DeLong

Crooked Timber

Real Climate

I read in the comments on other blogs that this happens constantly. So if it looks like everybody's on the same page, it's because the other pages are missing.

And a well done to Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias for not being part of the Orwellian Newspeak program. And I should note that I never see this type of behaviour on the sites of skeptics.

Oh--and by the way, if you disagree with me, your disagreements are welcome.

Comments

[Walter Cronanty]

Interesting Rasmussen poll, when taken in the context of the constant MSM drumbeat of AGW. Consensus?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/energy_update

Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of adults now say finding new sources of energy is more important that reducing the amount of energy Americans currently consume. However, 29% say energy conservation is the priority [why can't we find new sources AND conserve? Those two goals do not seem mutually exclusive to me].

A growing number of Americans (58%) say the United States needs to build more nuclear plants. This is up five points from last month and the highest finding so far this year. Twenty-five percent (25%) oppose the building of nuclear plants.

[Tom Fuller]

It just takes a while for common sense to kick in.