Posted on 06/02/2007 8:15:51 PM PDT by EPW Comm Team
In the fifteenth century, the consensus was that the earth was flat and was the center of the universe.
http://www.answers.com/topic/oregon-petition
I had mentioned the Oregon Petition here myself and was warned by another freeper about the credibility of it.
To my tastes, there seems to be too much of a lack of credibility or transparency from OISM. I will not use what I feel is a questionable source, to further my convictions of the Global Warming hoax.
I just read some of these articles. EXCELLENT!!! Thanks for posting.
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Good post.
The concensus might be wrong. Bradbury demonstrated that in his recent interview. Concensus is most safely assumed to be wrong most of the time.
That fear might be what is holding the rest of the “scientists” to Owl Gore’s tether. The fear that they are unmasked as relying on no science to substantiate their religion if GW - that they were tools of politicians rather than servants of objective truth - that their “proof” was a manipulation of the science and of themselves.
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It is truly impossible to know if this man is truly retarded, or simply impervious to reality (is there a difference?).
When I first heard of him he was simply another fancy suit in Washington and, by outward appearances, normal enough.
Since his campaigning in 1991, and the following 16 years, he is living proof that the mental ADA laws should be revisited...
That's about the level of intellingence and competence one can expect from the Global Warming acolytes. Unsubstantiated opinion masquerading as fact.
Even if this throwaway line is picked up and repeated a million times, it shall remain stupid.
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Good article! Thank you for the ping.
I hope Mr. Solomon continues his work in exposing this fraud.
And because of this you challenge my intelligence and competence, and claim I'm a GW acolyte?
The problem with your statement is that an acolyte would follow blindly, swallowing whatever dogma koolaid suited his taste. It would have been easier to have just recited the same things everyone else said claiming the veracity of the OP, instead I chose integrity and character over agenda.
Meanwhile you throw insults and misdirection around, while you try to bolster your position, all the while not budging from the anti-global warming dogma.
It seems to me that your the acolyte. If you would have provided some facts to support your view, I might have been swung back over to the camp that believes the OP. Instead you come across as a DU apprentice.
As climatic conditions deteriorated, a lethal mix of misfortunes descended on a growing European population. Crops failed and cattle perished by diseases caused by abnormal weather. Famine followed famine bringing epidemics in their train, bread riots and general disorder brought fear and distrust.Witchcraft accusations soared, as people accused their neighbors of fabricating bad weather. Lutheran orthodoxy called the cold and deep snowfall on Leipzig in 1562 a sign of God's wrath at human sin, but the church's bulwark against accusations of witchcraft began to crumble when climatic shifts caused poor harvests, food dearths, and cattle diseases.
Sixty three women were burned to death as witches in the small town of Wisensteig in Germany in 1563 at a time of intense debate over the authority of God over the weather. Witch panics erupted periodically after the 1560's. Between 1580 and 1620, more than 1,000 people were burned to death for witchcraft in the Bern region alone.
Witchcraft accusations reached a height in England and France in the severe weather years of 1587 and 1588. Almost invariably, a frenzy of prosecutions coincided with the coldest and most difficult years of the Little Ice Age, when people demanded the eradication of the witches they held responsible for their misfortunes.
From "The Little Ice Age", by Brian Fagan, page 91. ISBN 0-465-02271-5
And today it is we, Global Warming deniers from America, Australia and other non-Kyoto conforming countries who are their witches.
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I do think Algor has mental problems, but I think this man-made global warming stuff is not a result of that. He's doing this because he is becoming the national and international version of "The Godfather".
He's nothing but a socialist shakedown artist.
A well-known hoax and deception. See my profile, point 6.
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