MARK STEYN: GOEBBEL WARMING MUST READ

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347400/goebbel-warming

The climate crowd is very partial to Nazi analogies. Self-inducted Nobel Laureate Michael Mann (currently suing National Review and yours truly for mocking his hockey stick) likes to call his opponents “deniers.” Offset baron Al Gore talks of an ecological Kristallnacht.

Yet, when it comes to book burning, they’re happy to be the Nazis — and, like their libricidal predecessors, proud to be photographed in the act.*

Odd.

San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don't agree with is better than reading them

San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don’t agree with is better than reading them

From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this” but, here they are, right from the San Jose State University Meteorology Department web page:

The caption from the SJSU website reads:

This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled “The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism”. SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.

Maybe they just can’t help themselves, note the pictures on the wall.

SJSU_bookfire

 

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