Posted on 11/18/2011 5:14:49 PM PST by neverdem
Remember when Governor Rick Perry burst into the presidential race? Arguably one of the things that made him quickly rise to the top was the answer he gave to a question about global warming at an August 17th event: "I think we're seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change."
Just a day later, the Washington Post described what Perry's campaign sent them as proof to back his statement:
... a link to something called the [Oregon] Petition Project, which claims to have collected the signatures of 31,487 "American scientists" on a petition that says there is "no convincing scientific evidence" that human release of greenhouse gasses will "cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the earth's climate".
Now imagine, for a moment, news of such a petition being so inconvenient to the Obama administration in light of the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Durban, South Africa that they made efforts to marginalize it via a prominently placed op-ed saying that the petition had fake names in it.
Imagine that these efforts involved a relatively unknown scientist who coordinated his efforts to write the anti-skeptic op-ed with the White House Office of Science and Technology (headed by Obama Science Czar John Holdren), and with an enviro-activist group famous for slamming skeptic scientists -- like Greenpeace, for...
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If there is one example of how far-left ideology can't defend itself, it is the entire idea of man-caused global warming. Just look at what its promoters must do to keep it alive in the face of withering criticism. The disturbing thing about it is how long they've kept up this juvenile tactic, thanks to a complicit mainstream media.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Even if the Eviroweenies were freezing their collective arses off in the dark, they would still insisit that Global Warming is for real!!
Even longtime Alaskans taken off guard by deep freeze
This sort of thing is certainly more common in December and January than November, meteorologist Dan Hancock at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks said. We can go through an entire winter and not get this cold.
BTTT.
Thanks for the link.
The Ice Age Cometh.
Unless we burn a lot more fossil fuel to fend it off.
This is “1984 Ministry of Truth” level propaganda.
bfl
Thanks neverdem.
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