Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement. Rancourt declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,” Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research, explained in a June 8, 2010 essay.
“the global warming myth is a red herring. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized,” Rancourt said. Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass,” he asserted.
Rancourt's dissent on man-made climate fears has not set well with many of his fellow green friends. “When I tell environmental activists that global warming is not something to be concerned about, they attack me — they shun me, they do not allow me to have my materials published in their magazines, editors,” Rancourt explained to Climate Depot.
Rancourt bluntly examines why his fellow environmentalists are wrapped up in promoting climate alarm: “They look for comfortable lies that they can settle into and alleviate the guilt they feel about being on privileged end of the planet — a kind of survivors guilt. A lot of these environmentalists are guilt laden individuals who need to alleviate the guilt without taking risks.”
Rancourt also openly expresses his hostility for former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”: “I felt ill walking out of the theatre. It's terrible. It does not respect the intelligence the viewer. The film does not acknowledge people can think for themselves at all.” Rancourt lamented how “environmentalists could just gobble this up and agree with [Gore's film] in a non critical fashion.”
Gore “strikes me as someone working for someone — as someone who will financially benefit from this. He does not give me impression of someone who genuinely cares about environmental or social justice,” he said.
Rancourt spared no mercy for the embattled UN IPCC. He said that the scientists are “named by governments, they are scientists who accept to serve a political role. Their mission is to write a report” that “is meant to be used by government.”
Rancourt is also very critical of proposed global warming carbon trading or cap and trade: “Someone is going to make a lot of money from these schemes.”
But it is his fellow University professors that Rancourt has the least amount of patience with: “They are all virtually all service intellectuals. They will not truly critique, in a way that could threaten the power interests that keep them in their jobs. The tenure track is just a process to make docile and obedient intellectuals that will then train other intellectuals.
“You have this army of university scientists and they have to pretend like they are doing important research without ever criticizing the powerful interests in a real way. So they look for elusive sanitized things like acid rain, global warming.”
This entire process “helps to neutralize any kind of dissent,” according to Rancourt.
