There has been no "recent backpedalling"; the IPCC has been consistent in all 5 reports
-you deny it
"continues to base their "how much" assertions on guesswork and deliberately falsified data."
Talking point that's been demonstrably disproven repeatedly
-you deny it
Origins [John Birch Society]
The society was established in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 9, 1958, by a group of 12 led by
Robert Welch, Jr., a retired candy manufacturer from Belmont, Massachusetts. Welch named the new organization after John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and United States military intelligence officer who had been shot by communist forces in China in August 1945, shortly after the conclusion of World War II. Welch claimed that Birch was an unknown but dedicated anti-communist, and the first American casualty of the Cold War.
Fred Koch, founder of Koch Industries, was one of the founding members. Robert Waring Stoddard, President of Wyman-Gordon, a major industrial enterprise, was also among the founders. Another was Revilo P. Oliver, a University of Illinois professor who later severed his relationship with the society and helped found the National Alliance. A transcript of Welch's two-day presentation at the founding meeting was published as The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, and became a cornerstone of its beliefs, with each new member receiving a copy. According to Welch, "both the U.S. and Soviet governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians. If left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S. government would betray the country's sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order, managed by a 'one-world socialist government.'" Welch saw collectivism as the main threat to Western Civilization, and liberals as "secret communist traitors" who provided cover for the gradual process of collectivism, with the ultimate goal of replacing the nations of western civilization with a one-world socialist government. "There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general," he wrote, "but Communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction."
The society's activities include distribution of literature, pamphlets, magazines, videos and other educational material while sponsoring a Speaker's Bureau, which invites "speakers who are keenly aware of the motivations that drive political policy". One of the first public activities of the society was a "Get US Out!" (of membership in the UN) campaign, which claimed in 1959 that the "Real nature of [the] UN is to build a One World Government". In 1960, Welch advised JBS members to: "Join your local P.T.A. at the beginning of the school year, get your conservative friends to do likewise, and go to work to take it over." One Man's Opinion, a magazine launched by Welch in 1956, was renamed American Opinion, and became the society's official publication.
The society publishes the biweekly publication The New American.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/18300-climategate-3-0-university-threatens-blogger-for-exposing-97-consensus-fraud
"smearing", "bullying", "intimidating".. all bullshit words that are meant to imply there's some debate about science because you can't argue the scientific facts. If you believe something that is bullshit, you get laughed out of academia, that's how it works. What's next, are you going to go to a gay pride parade and cry about heterosexual discrimination?
...wait, you probably would.. maybe that was a bad analogy..
Says the guy who cites the John Birch Society to prove anthropogenic climate change is a hoax...
@ Buck, I'd say this one's almost as bad as Roy Spencer, add Robert Welch to that embarrassing list of "scientists" the climate change deniers proudly cite without shame