http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3126318/posts#8
....Somewhere along the line it came to be believed by many of the public, and indeed by many of the scientists themselves, that climate researchers were the equivalent of knights on white steeds fighting a great battle against the forces of evil—evil, that is, in the shape of “big oil” and its supposedly unlimited money. The delusion was more than a little attractive.....”
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Their MSM army of disinformation:
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Ironic? How about predictable?
Dr. K is too gracious. From my experiences only a small fraction of the members of the Church of the Global Warming have such inclinations.
When you google Brad Johnson, you sure see he has been busy.
Actually, it's the exact reverse of this. Most skeptics are eager to engage in discussion of the facts -- it's the "proponents" who screech to shut down the "debate" ("It's over!!")
Krauthammer to get the same treatment as Mark Steyn, eh?
With liberals, all progressive ideas are viewed as "settled". You simply can't have a meaningful discussion with them or disagree with their dogma. Skeptics are quickly dismissed as ignorant neanderthals.
Liberals are the keepers of the truth and enlightenment and serve as the great protectors of mother earth and all its inhabitants. /sarc
*110,000 people had urged the newspaper “to stop publishing climate lies” *
WOW! 100K people begging to have free speech stamped out. People used to wonder how Germany allowed the Socialists to take power in the 1930’s. Here's your answer. The public is easily brainwashed into worshiping the opinion of the government above Science or common sense.
If the government says it, it must be true. No questions asked. No questions ALLOWED to be asked. So when the government gets frustrated with people like Krauthammer telling the truth, the government may soon take the next step and use the final solution like the Socialists in China, the Soviet Union and other leftist totalitarian states.
Ping.
Global warming is a great scam for money see AlGore&Co.
Attacking anyone who won’t bow down and declare allegience to the god of liberalism.
What’s the differenc between flat earthers and climate realists? Everyone would love to debate a flat earther. When have the Warmongers ever wanted to have a public debate? Never. They fear being torn apart by facts in an environment where their fake concensus can’t protect them.
Oh yea, the climate is changing. But its the climate of blindly accepting the bogus pseudo-science of grant whores.
Try and ask questions respectfully and you will get knocked down and ridiculed. Any appeal to authority is anti science at its highest. Climate change science is a set of shaky hypothesis and far short of a theory. No one has a track record of making accurate predictions based on a model.
That is certainly not to say that climate change should not be studied, quite the opposite, it hasn’t been changed enough. We are putting out a lot of CO2 and we have degraded some carbon sinks. However, we are not at the point of blaming every small variation in weather to those two items.
Over the last 800,000 years for which we have ice core data, the current level of CO2 is very slightly higher than average. During these years, there have been very drastic climate changes — desertification of the Sahara, dramatic ice ages, etc. all with very low CO2 concentrations. Over the last 65 million years, the CO2 levels have been much higher than they are now. Our current .03 - .04 levels are very low in comparison with .27 + levels which we have had without it triggering a mass extinction event.
On the other hand, politically authoritarian and monetary gain for the progressives seems the main motives behind the climate change hysteria now being pushed. Less freedom and more equality for the masses is the goal. You’ve got to scare people in order to control them.
Journalism majors are ideologically pure, they accept Liberal dogma without question and are willing to do their part to advance their environmental progressive beliefs. They are ideally suited to comment on climate science and to help silence dissenters as none of this has the slightest thing to do with actual science, it’s all a big scam to advance political agendas.
I wonder what ended the previous ice ages
The thing that is somewhat discouraging is that when global warming is finally broken and is seen for the turd it is, the same folks who pushed it will be pushing the next lefty thing with full media credentials.
