Posted on 11/28/2016 4:24:11 AM PST by Kaslin
As quickly became clear in last week’s skittish interview do with Donald Trump, the top dogs at the New York Times worry more about rising sea levels than they do about shrinking circulation.
The Times hysteric-in-chief, Thomas Friedman, sounded the alarm. With his first question, he referred to an article he had written days prior warning Trump that indifference to climate change could turn his “oceanside [golf] courses into ocean-floor courses.” Joking, Trump suggested a rise in sea levels just might increase the value of his Doral golf course given that it is about ten miles inland.
For Friedman, this was no laughing matter. “It’s really important to me,” he huffed. Said Trump, “I’m looking at it very closely, Tom. I’ll tell you what. I have an open mind to it.” This was hardly a flip-flop. Trump touched on the Climategate scandal and told the Times crew something no one with power likely ever told them before, “A lot of smart people disagree with you.”
Unsatisfied, Publisher Arthur Sulzberger ratcheted up the hysteria. “We’re living on an island, sir,” he warned Trump. Had Trump been less polite, he might have answered, “About the only thing you are likely to drown in, Pinch, is a sea of red ink.”
Sulzberger then shared with Trump a related fear, that of storms. Trump tried to comfort him. “We’ve had storms always, Arthur,” he replied. But Sulzberger refused to hear it. “Not like this,” he said.
Although Trump did not question Sulzberger’s definition of “like this,” he could have safely done so. Florida had gone a record eleven years without a single hurricane strike before the modest Category I Matthew struck Northern Florida in October.
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“For Friedman, this was no laughing matter. “It’s really important to me,” he huffed. Said Trump, “I’m looking at it very closely, Tom. I’ll tell you what. I have an open mind to it.” This was hardly a flip-flop. Trump touched on the Climategate scandal and told the Times crew something no one with power likely ever told them before, “A lot of smart people disagree with you.””
Ahhh. Interesting how putting Trump’s climate change remarks in context totally refute subsequent claims by the MSM that he has flip-flopped on the issue. Thanks for posting this.
One would think folks like these, who actually run the NY Slimes, would know better than actually believe this global warming crap but it appears that may be wrong. They may actually BELIEVE THIS. They may actually be that stupid.
They do believe their own poop doesn’t smell, so they will believe anything.
The Times is now a total parody. They learn nothing.
The only reason the Slimes cares is because they think that if they flog the lie and help it take root, they can cash in on it in some way, like Algore and others already have. IMHO.
Sulzberger is 65 yrs old. Is he actually cowering under the covers at night, imagining Manhatten slipping into the sea?
” “We’re living on an island, sir,” he warned Trump.”
The people at the Times are living on an island in more ways than one.
When Trump cuts off funding for all these fraudulent climate studies, the whole climate change movement will just be reduced to the status of a kooky cult.
Or their brokers at Goldman guaranteed them huge profits from carbon credit trading, and these damned Republicans just haven't given up and allowed it to happen, yet. :)
You don’t get it...... Quacky Lackey heard from Chicken Little that the sky was falling. That is, the story was given and confirmed. Two sources is all it takes.
They are not stupid. They are ignorant of anything outside their bubble, and they are incredibly arrogant.
They beleive they and the people in their bubble are the only ones smart enough to know anything, and they reject any information from outside the bubble.
They are caught in a trap of their own arrogance.
I believe the 11 year record is still intact. Matthew did not make landfall in Florida.
This is exactly what I say to the pain in a$$ at work to make him go away.
I have a brother, with a real deal PhD in Hydrology for a major university. He believes in Global Warming / Climate Change.
I will even agree that the climate is changing.
Where we part company is the cause of this observed change in climate.
He is very much a support of AGW, on the other hand, I believe long term, natural processes are at work.
That the climate is changing , to me, is no longer in depute - because it never was in despute. Then again, where I live in Alaska used to be under a mile thick sheet of ice, so yes, the climate is changing and will continue to change.
That Mankind is driving that change is hubris at its worst....
Of course it does. It’s called Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
: )
I was thinking along the lines that a pair of breeding beavers have been discovered on the North Slope of the Brooks range here in Alaska. Surprised a lot of biologists.
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