[JimSEA]

I obviously don't agree with the author's comments on global warming denial. However, he does expose the Left's opposition to science, their requirements that only PC results are acceptable and the fact that they are often air heads (not the author's words but my summary). His conclusion is that there is more science denial by hard line leftists.

[Morpheus2009]

I don’t know, but claims such as higher category hurricanes need to be addressed and revised.

[PATRIOT1876]

‘science votes Democrat.’?!?!?!?!?!

What a bizzare quote!

The Dems are almost ALWAYS against Science and common sense.

[Telepathic Intruder]

To the political left, science is politics, as is everything else. So anyone not of the left is by default anti-science. Global warming isn’t real to them because of the environment, but because people need to be controlled and forced to conform. God isn’t an outdated concept because of moral or spiritual reasons, but because it needs to be replaced with the state. Science is a blunt instrument for the attaining of one goal: socialism.

[Colonel_Flagg]

There is no such thing as ‘global warming denial’ until someone shows that there is such a thing as ‘global warming’. As yet, scientists can’t do that. Only politicians can.

Narrative is everything. Don’t use theirs.

[GraceG]

The elimination of lead in gasoline was a triumph of science and science based thinking in reguards to the environment and environmental policy...

That being said...

Trying to apply the same standards to levels of CO2 in the atmosphere which already occcurs naturally in abundant amounts is like comparing Onions to Oranges...

[fhayek]

I do not believe in man-made global warming. I do not consider myself a denier. I consider myself a skeptic. It seems to me that the burden of proof is on those who put forth the whole global warming theory. What they have put forth is a computer model that has not been very good at predicting subsequent climate conditions. The data has shown the opposite of what they predicted AND proponents of the theory have been caught fudging the data.

Now, if this was a matter that was relatively inconsequential, say about the life cycle of a woolly caterpillar, I would not care one whit about the issue. But, they are asking our civilization to fork over billions of dollars, as well as sacrificing a large measure of our freedom in the name of 'solving global warming'. I don't trust the politicians glomming on to this issue any more than I trust the scientists faking the data. No denial, just a healthy dose of skepticism.

[PATRIOT1876]

“I don't know how Nixon won. No one I know voted for him.”

Nixon won by a huge margin.
It shows that the Left is disconnected with reality.

Facts aren't considered real unless they agree with the Left’s agenda (which hardly ever happens).

Science isn't REAL Science to them unless it promotes Socialism.

[Gay State Conservative]

I wonder what leftists say when they’re reminded that the typical child in the womb has a measurable heart at something like 2 weeks development.

[dangerdoc]

I’m disappointed that the article doesn’t actually discuss any science. The left is anti science because of these views and the right is anti science because of those views. No discussion of the reality of those views at all.

I am biased but the lefts anti science theories have been vigorously tested by well funded studies and the results should convince them that their views are contrary to science.

The right is just told that they are anti science and ignore the fact there is no evidence, just theories, and you have to accept because it is too dangerous not to believe.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d like to see a piece on “The Politics of Enviroscam Artists and Government Grants.”

[afsnco]

This from people who believe the validity of a scientific theory is determined by majority vote.

[x]

As was apocryphally attributed to New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael after the 1972 Presidential election and a Richard M. Nixon landslide victory, "I don't know how Nixon won. No one I know voted for him."

"Apocryphally" is a nice way of using the quote without admitting that you didn't get it right.

Pauline Kael didn't actually say that.

[samtheman]

There’s such a big difference between global warming “denial” and the denial of other strong scientific evidence in favor of the efficacy of vaccines, the lack of danger in GMO and some of the other things the author mentions that it’s really ashame he can’t see it.

[kevkrom]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a serial fabulist.

[onedoug]

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. --Richard P Feynman