1. The Paradigm of Alarmism
Iain Murray
Heartland Conference on Global Warming
New York City
March 2009

2. The Roots of the Alarmist Movement Explain Their Tactics
Legal maneuvering
Reliance on regulation
Intimidation
Mass protests
Disdain for humanity
The paradigm of alarmism

3. The Anti-DDT Movement Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Foundation of EDF and NRDC
Local Bans
Pressure on EPA
EPA ignores own scientists’ advice
Lobbying for international ban
When confronted with inconvenient truths, claim not lobbying for ban

4. Atomkraft? Keine Danke! German anti-nuclear movement Mass protests
Did not eschew violence
Echoed in USA
Extremely successful
British roads protests
Rent-a-mob/Swampy

5. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb
Zero Population Growth
Direct ties with Sierra Club
“Full-service” environmentalism
Source of anti-human attitude
Inconsistencies with pro-immigration stance glossed over

6. The Paradigm
Identify your cause and the laws you want enacted (use syllogism)
Create an apocalyptic scenario
Claim there’s a threat to children
Don the mantle of science and decry those who disagree as anti-science
Create a clamor that rules out rational debate, using intimidation if necessary
Once your measures have been adopted, defend them ruthlessly

7. The Paradigm in Action: DDT
Birds are suffering; DDT causes birds to suffer; so ban DDT locally, nationally, internationally
“Silent Spring”
Threat of childhood leukemia
Silent Spring filled with pseudoscience
EDF, NRDC formed to push for bans
DDT ban still held up as exemplary despite significant evidence of significant harm

8. The Paradigm in Action: Global Warming
Earth warming; fossil fuels cause earth to warm; so ban fossil fuels
A-Y of apocalyptic scenarios
All scenarios take place years out
An Inconvenient Truth, IPCC, “consensus”
$300m ad budget for ACP
“Deniers,” “Delayers,” “Climate criminals”