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MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a ‘Cult’
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| January 22, 2015
| Howie Carr
Posted on 01/22/2015 11:10:06 AM PST by yoe
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To: yoe
To: tanknetter
Debating the left is pointless. They will never admit defeat. The one word that describes them best is - disingenuous.
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:33:21 AM PST
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: yoe
Seventy percent of the earth is oceans, we cant measure those temperatures very well. They can be off a half a degree, a quarter of a degree. Even two-10ths of a degree of change would be tiny but two-100ths is ludicrous. Anyone who starts crowing about those numbers shows that theyre putting spin on nothing Dead on. Ludicrous is the word.
Taking sparse data and claiming that kind of accuracy is nothing more then an exercise in plug n' chug.
To: yoe
He stole that from me!
I’ve been saying for years that Global Warming is a doomsday cult of environmentalism. It has everything - an angry god, a sinful and wasteful mankind, a prophetic end-of-times story, a path to redemption (environmentalism) and high priests, like Al Gore.
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:34:16 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: yoe
Disconfirmed Expectancy"Disconfirmed expectancy is a psychological term for what is commonly known as a failed prophecy. According to the American social psychologist Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, disconfirmed expectancies create a state of psychological discomfort because the outcome contradicts expectancy. Upon recognizing the falsification of an expected event an individual will experience the competing cognitions, "I believe [X]," and, "I observed [Y]." The individual must either discard the now disconfirmed belief or justify why it has not actually been disconfirmed. As such, disconfirmed expectancy and the factors surrounding the individual's consequent actions have been studied in various settings."
To: yoe
If MIT says so, then MITT must be the cult leader! He’s been quoted on the bad effects of “climate change” recently.
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:37:14 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: justa-hairyape
“Debating the left is pointless. They will never admit defeat. The one word that describes them best is - disingenuous.”
Yes.
And more so, when defeat is obvious, they magically were always against what was just defeated.
To: yoe
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:47:56 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: yoe
I believe in global warming. In fact, I have plans to convert my house (which is about 220 feet above sea level) to a dock/marina. Figure I’ll dig the holes for the pilings now before things get too sloppy.
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:51:12 AM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: yoe
“...instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think thats whats happening here...”
The word that fits here is “projection”
To: yoe
Cancel that - I thought this professor was talking about the AGW Cult of AlGore.
Stand down.
To: Excellence
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:38:31 PM PST
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: bray
As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think thats whats happening here. Think about it, he said. Youve led an unpleasant life, you havent led a very virtuous life, but now youre told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. Its salvation!Yes, liberalism is a cult - the the warmist are closest to going over the edge... they're in full panic.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:42:19 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Radical Muslims are the brutish "light-fearing Morlocks' of the Islamic political duality)
To: yoe
Climate changists and atheists, they are not synonymous to freedom of speech, let alone science.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:56:21 PM PST
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
To: yoe; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; America_Right; ..
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posted on
01/22/2015 9:15:48 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
To: justa-hairyape
Debating the left is pointless. They will never admit defeat. The one word that describes them best is - disingenuous. If I had to choose a word, I would pick perfidious.
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posted on
01/22/2015 10:59:08 PM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A few days ago HBO's Bill Maher was doing his usual jokes on the people who don't believe in Global Warming and almost no one was laughing. We're making progress...
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posted on
01/23/2015 7:36:09 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Radical Muslims are the brutish "light-fearing Morlocks' of the Islamic political duality)
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