Free Beacon Mocks NPR Hour on Talking to 'Dangerous Idiots' on Climate(#mealso)

newsbusters.org ^ | 10/21/2018 | Tim Graham

[rktman]

Our friend David Rutz at the Washington Free Beacon listened to a typically one-sided hour of National Public Radio on climate change on Tuesday and wrote an article titled "NPR: How Do We Talk to the Dangerous Idiots Who Disagree With Us?"

The national talk show 1A tweeted out this summation: "Climate change is a fundamental threat. The science is clear and scientists around the world agree that this a man-made problem. What, if anything, can be done to win over climate skeptics?"

Rutz summarized it this way: "I listened to a remarkable bit of self-parody on National Public Radio on Tuesday: a moderator, a pair of experts, and some very earnest listeners trying to figure out how to most politely tell climate change skeptics they are dangerous idiots."

1A host Joshua Johnson led off the program with this summary:

Clearly climate change is tough to discuss, despite overwhelming scientific evidence of its existence. Or maybe because of that evidence. I mean, think about it. If someone tried to hit you over the head with a bunch of facts and figures, supremely confident that they are right and you are wrong, how would you feel? Or, if someone flat out refused to hear you out, despite the facts being really clear, and just dug in their heels to avoid feeling like they lost an argument, what would that be like? We want to elevate this debate, to change the way we talk about climate change.

[C210N]

I like that angle on the Quaternary, thanks for describing it so well.

I’ve banked my views on two things:

Based on sun observation data, we are clearly going into some 75-150 year Maunder-like or Dalton-like minimum. They call it the Modern Minimum... I think of it as the ManBearPig Minimum. Either way works.

And two, Malinkovitch cycles. This perhaps ties in well with the Quaternary period still continuing strong. We know that the earth has 100,000 year cycles where its orbit eccentricity decreases to nearly a circle to a very elongated ellipse. There is also at least two others, with 41,000 and 22,000 year cycles. These are what are driving climite warming and cooling.

[hal ogen]

It’s malignant dishonesty.

[Uncle Miltie]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/07/06/bombshell-study-temperature-adjustments-account-for-nearly-all-of-the-warming-in-government-climate-data/?cn-reloaded=1

[Impala64ssa]

I don't deny climate change. It's happening as we speak. I deny it's man-made. It's G-D MADE CLIMATE CHANGE. btw isn't it funny how the PC "not sees" who demand gender neutrality in our vocabulary have no problem when the masculine is used to denote a negative. MAN made climate change, hit MAN, mad MAN,etc. A lame attempt at subtle MANipulation?

[Reily]

Ok what caused Gondwanaland, to go “wanda” off!