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June 10, 2011

The Price of Convictions

Via The Irritable Architect I came to this bit of absurdity from the Sidney Morning Herald. Some complete ass by the name of Richard Glover attempted a bit of absurdist hyperbole, and failed.

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ''Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?''

I don't think he more than half meant it. He backed of from the tattoo idea pretty quickly because "maybe the tattooing along the arm is a bit Nazi-creepy." You think? Idiot.

But he didn't back off from suggesting other ways from punishing those who committed the heresy of questioning the Holy Church of Global Warming. One of his other ideas was a form of crucification in which "deniers would be forced to"

stand, in the year 2040, lashed to a pole at a certain point in the shallows off Manly? If they are right and the world is cooling - ''climate change stopped in the year 1998'' is one of their more boneheaded beliefs - their mouths will be above water. If not …

Again I don't think he more than half believed that.

His other idea for punishing non-believers was that they be forced to buy property on low-lying islands so that they would be bankrupt when the sea levels rose and their mortgages were literally under water. He wants to force them to put their money where their mouths are.

I wondered how deeply this ass held the courage of his convictions so I wrote a letter to the editor of the Sidney Morning Herald and issued the following challenge:

I will purchase from Mr. Glover any home situated on low lying ocean front property that he may legally sell me, for the price he believes it will be worth in 2040 plus $1 at which time he agrees to buy it back at full current market value. If his beliefs are correct, the property will be worth the $1 I paid him for it in 2011 and he will have lost nothing but what it cost to acquire the property in the first place. If he is wrong, I will make a tidy profit when he buys the property at full 2040 market value.

I have the dollar sitting on my desk awaiting his reply.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 08:05 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment

1 Very nice; and what are the odds of being able to purchase his property? My guess, about the same as our oceans covering Manhattan Island.

Posted by: T.F. Stern at June 10, 2011 08:51 AM (Ruh11)

2 Like all self-important fools, I have no doubt this clown will not have the courage of his convictions. Certainly he is not going to accept any real impact on his life. The costs are only to be borne by his inferiors.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at June 10, 2011 09:45 PM (KGD+C)

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