Gore calls on his climate faithful to treat
global warming skeptics like racists and homophobes
Gore calls on his climate faithful to treat
global warming skeptics like racists and homophobes By Ben Geman Former vice president Al Gore on Monday called for making climate change «denial» a taboo in society.
Not exact matches
Hundreds of
global warming skeptics are in Washington to hear attacks on mainstream climate science and responses to it,
like renewable energy programs and federal initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Like others in the incoming administration, Mulvaney is also a
skeptic on climate, referring to «baseless claims regarding
global warming» on his 2010 election campaign website (archived here).
The meeting coincides with a gathering of climate change
skeptics in New York City, who are debating topics
like «
Global warming: Was it ever a crisis?»
Define democracy however you
like; I find your refusal to acknowledge the harm done by the fundamental dishonesty of the
global warming skeptics to be not only puzzling, but deeply troubling.
In fact, I was by default not doubting the
global warming classic interpretation till I started reading multiple sources on the net, and as my self - confession as a recent
skeptic shows, the argument from the denialist camp are not only convincing to petrol gulping rednecks, but also to a very scientifically minded, atheist european (although, I must admit, I
like motor sports; — RRB --RRB-.
Long - time greens are painfully aware that the arguments of
global warming skeptics are
like zombies in a»70s B movie.
Wordy as the letter is, it could be boiled down much
like Al Gore's 2006 movie or the collective lot of the entire catastrophic man - caused
global warming into a 3 - part talking point: «the science is settled» /
skeptics are industry - funded & orchestrated liars» / «reporters may ignore
skeptics because of the prior two reasons.»
I find concerned liberals are loath to talk about how consistently wrong climate models have been or about the «pause» in
global warming that has gone on for over fifteen years, while climate
skeptics avoid discussion of things
like ocean acidification and accelerated melting in Greenland and the Arctic.
There are of course ozone «
skeptic» scientists just
like there are
global warming «
skeptic» scientists, but the consensus and evidence are not in their favor.
The reason progressives constantly obscure the meaning of terms
like skeptic, «
global warming,» «AGW» (when you mean CAGW), is so you can convert your political opinions into «science,» and then falsely label your political opponents as anti-science.
There's no significant change in the understanding of climate change or
global warming which continue to be valid expressions (while CAGW is just a concept invented by
skeptics to use as they
like and in a way that does not reflect main stream views).
That doesn't seem
like it will solve this mainly because the «
skeptics» left now are too self - invested and self - identifying with their view to be swayed by anything including a resumption of
global warming and continued melting.
Former Virginia state climatologist and
global warming skeptic Pat Michaels («Hurricane Pat,» as we once fondly dubbed him) pops up in an email as someone that a scientist from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California would
like to attack --- and not just in the latest issue of a peer - reviewed journal.
Declarations that
skeptic climate scientists knowingly lie about the certainty of man - caused
global warming as paid shills of the fossil fuel industry appear devastating...... but dig deep into the details, and all those claims look more
like a «Keystone Kops - style» farce.
A favorite argument among climate scientist «
skeptics»
like Christy, Spencer, and Lindzen is that «internal variability» can account for much or all of the
global warming we've observed over the past century.
If 2014 really is the
warmest year on record, then it's certainly wrong to say that
global warming «stopped» back in 1998 — a favorite line of climate
skeptics like Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK).
Like you I am a
global warming skeptic and am so glad to finally have someone as President who thinks the way I do but globally the people have been brainwashed into thinking that Global Warming is the biggest threat to humanity there has ever
global warming skeptic and am so glad to finally have someone as President who thinks the way I do but globally the people have been brainwashed into thinking that Global Warming is the biggest threat to humanity there has eve
warming skeptic and am so glad to finally have someone as President who thinks the way I do but globally the people have been brainwashed into thinking that
Global Warming is the biggest threat to humanity there has ever
Global Warming is the biggest threat to humanity there has eve
Warming is the biggest threat to humanity there has ever been.
Those who don't want to be seen to be swivel - eyed lunatics associate with Nigel Lawson's
Global Warming Policy Foundation and critics
like Roger Pielke Jr. (which is why Pielke hated being named by Foreign Policy as a top «
skeptic»).
It seems
like IGES's effort to get Obama to prosecute
global warming skeptics has completely backfired in the two weeks since their letter to the administration was published online.
Personal attacks on «
skeptics»
like me began as evidence failed to support the claim that human CO2 was causing
global warming and we persisted in saying so.
AGW
skeptics are Holocaust deniers, children will never know what snow is, rivers will run red and «oceans will begin to boil, Earth will be
like Venus,
global warming is not a Left vs. right issue and, unlike our ancestors, we will be led to survival by high priests in green robes with computer models chanting anti-energy and anti-food slogans....
«And then you add in the media, with people
like Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David telling kids if you're a
global warming skeptic, you are not cool.
«And then you add in the media, with people
like Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David telling kids if you're a
global warming skeptic, you are not cool,» said Morano.
Watch the
global warming issue zooming by in a superficial manner and all the horrific claims — increasingly extreme weather events, imperiled polar bear populations,
skeptics who are paid to lie about the truth of all of this — sound
like they are true.
Steven Goddard has amassed massive amounts of graphs and data evidence of fraud with GISS, NOAA, BOM ect., No one actually cares or is even looking at this study, Hopefully it is because no one cares about
global warming anymore except a few warmist fanatics and
skeptics etc... Only serious legal action funded by a wealthy
skeptic or the
like will actually make anyone notice that is the sad fact I'm afraid.
Climate change
skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one side of the
global warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a
global warming crisis.»
I'm sure they'd love to run around arresting
skeptics, AKA those of us who «pollute» the idea of anthropogenic
global warming and don't
like the Federal Government's continuous power grab and carbon tax attempts.
Then certainly, you have expressed concerns about
global -
warming «
skeptic» papers
like McLean / de Freitas / Carter 2009, Soon / Baliunas 2003, etc., etc. that were published in spite of the fact that they contained errors that an undergraduate would be dinged for at any respected university...
There shouldn't be much doubt that
global warming skeptics and deniers will latch onto the Pachauri story
like they did with the hacked emails from IPCC scientists.
You're beside yourself seeing the church of carbon sin come falling down
like a house of cards from the pause and now you're seeing both your warmist heroes and
skeptic enemies who are top shelf climate scientists agree that heat diffused into the deep ocean isn't «heat in the pipeline» that will reemerge as rapid
global warming.
The
global -
warming crowd
likes to deride
skeptics as the equivalent of the Catholic Church refusing to accept the Copernican theory.
So, imply the «reposition
global warming» phrase is proof of
skeptic climate scientists» guilt while failing to explain precisely how, and it only ends up looking
like slick propaganda no matter which way you try to push it.
The surprise to me with this lawsuit is that it doesn't feature sensational evidence
like others did — the older Kivalina v Exxon case and the newer San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach v. Chevron cases — by citing the infamous «leaked memo set» headlined with «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact,» which are universally accepted among enviro - activists as smoking gun evidence of
skeptic climate scientists being paid to push misinformation to the public at the behest of sinister corporate handlers.