[Shadowstrike]

Then Oster proves the point that Climate Change is NOT brought about by people, but is actually something that happens naturally on a living planet.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is incompetent and stupid. We know how the Salem witchtrials began: with accusations by a couple children of Carribean servants who sought to avoid punishment of misconduct by blaming a white woman for witchcraft. Belief in witches was commonplace among slaves brought up from the islands, and it caught on among the puritans of Salem. That it only lasted a short time is evidence that it was a passing hysteria, not a response to extended climate change.

[Stormdog]

So I guess that “Global Warming” produced the Moonbats and not the other way around.

[AD from SpringBay]

Yes! It’s about time someone noticed the connection between climage change and witch hysteria.

[GeronL]

The Salem witch thing was so minor it should be nothing more than a footnote. Go back another hundred years in England for the witch burnings, a much wider scale thing.

[tumblindice]

http://adamngoodblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail.jpg

“Global warming causes earthquakes, typhoons, water spouts, tsunamis, nuclear power plant meltdowns, tornados, cooler weather.”
“And especially—witches.”

[Smokin' Joe]

Which hysteria?

[sjmjax]

Interesting article.

500 years later and not much has changed. Most of the Democrats party strategy in little more that modern witch hunts.

In fact, most of the leadership of the Democrat Party are characters right out of the Vincent Price movie - Conqueror Worm.

The way Democrats treat Republican women....

[bunkerhill7]

``In the 1960s, socialists framed the upheaval as an effort by greedy landowners to steal the property of the victims.``

One of my ancestors was burned at the stake. All her descendants know that they wanted all her properties. Her husband fled north into present-day New Hampshire, but they went there and tracked him down, dragged him back to Mass. and burned him up, too, and thus got all their properties.

[Similar to `Share the Wealth` BS from Obummer, but was `Take the Wealth`]

[6SJ7]

Dunking suspected witches in water caused the ocean level to rise.

[Oztrich Boy]

Salem State University history professor Tad Baker is intrigued by Oster's views.
"It makes a lot of sense," he said.

"You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool" - George Orwell

[wjcsux]

Thank you very much for clearing up this piece of history. For all of my life I thought the Salem Witch Trials were Bush’s fault.

[lwoodham]

If only Nancy Pelosi had lived back then...

[Moltke]

The only thing this proves is that people will rearwardly project whatever is the hot topic of the day to explain occurrences in the past...

[Fresh Wind]

...places the blame on something we think of as a strictly modern phenomenon: climate change.

Well, Alan, if you believe that climate change is "strictly a modern phenomenon", then it's clear that thinking isn't one of your strong points.

[RegulatorCountry]

Belief in “climate change” correlates nicely with being an hysterical witch in the modern era.