Dr Clive AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual, according to his own website and a host of other sources, including his publisher Allen & Unwin.
As a global warming alarmist, he is part of the Weber-barbecue-like tripod of Australian public intellectuals, the other two kettle legs being of course Dr Tim Flannery and Professor Robert Manne. I wondered, re Clive, who ‘public intellectuals’ were. I guess Jean Paul Sartre’s definition, “the moral conscience of their age” seems the best fit. After all, Clive stood for the Greens in 2009 and his “AM” is a clear-cut 2009 honor for his service to the Left on climate-change policy, sustainability and societal trends.
But what’s with that “FRSA”? It looks a bit like that top science gong, “Fellow of the Royal Society” but actually stands for “Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts”, a different UK body. Being an FRSA seems like something special, since it always seems to be tagged to Clive’s profiles.
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Last March I put in a test application for an FRSA, for convenience using the name Kim Jong Un, of Pyongyang. The RSA website promised a confirmation within 12 working days.
More – Once again, people described as “leading scientists” turn out to be economists, UN officials, and those with links to activist organizations.
According to the IPCC, if you are an economist, a UN Appartatchik or a WWF Activist, you are a climate scientist.
Donna describes
“Once again, people described as “leading scientists” turn out to be economists, UN officials, and those with links to activist organizations.”
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/07/09/the-earth-league-self-important-self-appointed-busybodies/ . . .
I bet that SDA could have raised his $378 fee in a couple minutes to complete the experiment!
Someone used the name Kim Jong-Un and no one noticed?
Oh boy….
Yeah. What does that tell you? I’ve spent enough time roaming the halls of progressive academia to say that means a lot! Anything you want to hang on that, and I mean anything is true.
Perhaps they should meet the Young Kim in person. It would work for everybody.
I signed a petition at 350.org as “THIS IS CRAP” just so I could see the recent signee’s names scroll down the side of the website; every 10th time through there was a statement that said “THIS IS CRAP”.
Nobody noticed. My “name” stayed on their list and I still (3 months later) get solicitations for donations … even requests for event coordinators/volunteers … “THIS IS CRAP, we need your help…”
I think that 99% of what they do is controlled automaticly and is primarily intended to accumulate funds for the “owner” and operator of the “non-profit”
DONM
My cat was a leading climate scientist! She wouldn’t go out if it was raining, or too hot, or too cold, or too windy…
If the ‘public intellectual’ thinks he can spend tax dollars better than the average citizen, it certainly isn’t a moral conscience that he has. Just arrogance and a superiority complex.