Posted on 12/11/2009 8:52:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
House Democrats said Thursday that denying humans were causing climate change is like denying smoking causes lung cancer.
Reps. Edward Markey (Mass.), Jay Inslee (Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) also compared climate change "deniers" to “teabaggers” who spread the false rumor about death panels and swift boaters who attacked Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) war record during the 2004 presidential race.
The three members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming called a news conference on Thursday in response to the controversy over the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, which has now become known as Climategate.
Markey, who is the chairman of the select panel, said climate change skeptics were “engaging in a policy of distraction” by promoting the hacked emails. But he said the emails do nothing to refute the overwhelming evidence that humans are causing global warming.
“There is no magician trying to trick his audience,” Markey said. "Our world is getting hotter, faster."
That was a specific reference to one of the more controversial emails in the bunch. An email dated Nov. 12, 1999, from Prof. Phil Jones references a “trick” to “hide a decline.”
Markey said the word trick in this case meant a clever way to fix a perplexing problem, and didn’t indicate that the scientists were playing funny with the numbers. The decline relates to data from tree rings that did not correspond to actual temperatures in the region from 1960 to 1994. See a response from the Pew Center of Global Climate Change here.
Climate skeptics say the emails show climate scientists have manipulated data and sought to suppress divergent views.
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and GOP vice presidential candidate, said in a Washington Post op-ed that President Barack Obama should boycott Copenhagen in light of the emails.
“The e-mails reveal that leading climate 'experts' deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals,” Palin wrote.
“Before Sarah Palin writes a book, she should try reading a few,” Inslee said. He then listed several reports on climate change, including the National Academy of Science's report in 2007 that concluded with 90 percent assurance that according to Inslee found that “in fact we are heading down a very dangerous road due to human-induced climate change."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
When you resort to namecalling, you’ve lost the game.
Sticks and stones, boys. The Alinsky method of demonization is so over.
It only works if the opposition buys the label.
What the hell does Markey know about this subject?
YES!
Those smart enough to see through Kerry’s lies about his time in the service, are the same people smart and motivated enough to participate in “Tea Party” protests over current economic policies, and they are the same people smart and curious enough to recognize the fraud in the “global warming” story!
Dollars to donuts these "reports' cite the findings of our recently outed climate frauds.
So what do we do WHEN,
not if,
they continue with their socialist, economy destroying, liberty destroying, misanthropic “solutions”
to the “climate change crisis”?
“When you resort to namecalling, you’ve lost the game”
I am a tea partier, a swift boater, a denier and a birther.
Who says people don’t get better with age.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
1. “Global Warming” aka “Climate Change” is a socialist hoax designed to steal money, accumulate power, and restrict freedom. EVERYONE who advocates for this sham knows exactly what they are doing. They are liars and traitors and deserve to be sent to prison at the MINIMUM. They actually deserve much worse.
2. John Kerry, who allegedly went to Viet Nam, is a lying, vacuous, gold digging piece of worthless trash.
3. Anyone who refers to protesters trying to save the country from socialist/Marxist pigs as “teabaggers” should have their asses whipped anytime they show their faces in public.
Teabaggers are patriots standing up for the constitution.
Climate change deniers are people with common sense who can READ.
Birthers, after looking at tons of evidence, know that BHO is not eligible to be president.
Yes, I am all those things and PROUD of it.
We’ll have to go “Wolverines” on ‘em, I guess.
Sucks to be those who just want to remain “neutral” though.
“So what do we do WHEN,
not if,”
The campaigns start gearing up next month. GOTV!
*and take no prisoners!
LOL!!
Isn’t the new spirit of bipartisanship that The One has brought to Washington working out wonderfully.
Thank God for the Swifties and for Sarah Palin noting the DEATH PANELS!
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