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Climate change is real. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 8-26-18

Posted on 08/28/2018 8:05:24 AM PDT by DeweyCA

If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered climate change, we won't take part in the debate, say Jonathan Porritt... and 57 other writers, politicians and academics

We are no longer willing to lend our credibility to debates over whether or not climate change is real. It is real. We need to act now or the consequences will be catastrophic. In the interests of “balance”, the media often feels the need to include those who outright deny the reality of human-triggered climate change.

Balance implies equal weight. But this then creates a false equivalence between an overwhelming scientific consensus and a lobby, heavily funded by vested interests, that exists simply to sow doubt to serve those interests. Yes, of course scientific consensus should be open to challenge – but with better science, not with spin and nonsense. We urgently need to move the debate on to how we address the causes and effects of dangerous climate change – because that’s where common sense demands our attention and efforts should be.

Fringe voices will protest about “free speech”. No one should prevent them from expressing their views, whether held cynically or misguidedly. However, no one is obliged to provide them with a platform, much less to appear alongside them to give the misleading impression that there is something substantive to debate. When there is an article on smoking, newspapers and broadcasters no longer include lobbyists claiming there are no links to cancer. When there’s a round-the-world yacht race we don’t hear flat-earthers given airtime: “This is madness; they’ll sail off the edge!”

There’s a workable model for covering fringe views – which is to treat them as such. They don’t need to be ridiculed, just expected to challenge the evidence with better evidence, and otherwise ignored.

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KEYWORDS: algore; censorship; climatechange; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; facebook; fascistbook; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; jonathanporritt; markzuckerberg; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; totalitarianism; totalitarians; zuckerberg
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Leftists (which includes most global warming advocates) are becoming more brazen in their attempts to censor any dissent. The Los Angeles Times newspaper will no longer print any anti-climate change opinions. It will probably nnot be too long until Facebook does the same. Inside every Leftist is a totalitarian.

Btw, these people say that "climate deniers" don't have to be ridiculed, immediately after ridiculing them by comparing them to flat earthers. In addition to being totalitarians, you can count on Leftists to be hypocrites.

1 posted on 08/28/2018 8:05:24 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

If it wasn’t for “climate change” Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.


2 posted on 08/28/2018 8:06:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DeweyCA

Climate change is called weather and has been happening since the beginning of time.

JoMa


3 posted on 08/28/2018 8:06:43 AM PDT by joma89
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To: DeweyCA

Where’s the Goebbels’ pic?


4 posted on 08/28/2018 8:06:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeweyCA

You know damn right the climate is changing.....just like it has for billions of years.


5 posted on 08/28/2018 8:06:53 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: DeweyCA

Climate changes....that’s real.

As to how to control it..,that’s fake


6 posted on 08/28/2018 8:07:08 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: DeweyCA

They need to go smoke another joint. By the time they’re done smoking, the “climate” will change......again. These people are STUPID.


7 posted on 08/28/2018 8:07:42 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: DeweyCA

Is that anything like “Slaughter the deniers!”?. I suppose if they want to stop by, that’ll be fine.


8 posted on 08/28/2018 8:07:44 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: DeweyCA

When they can explain why climate change only happens during the summer, but not during the winter (news cycle), they might make some headway.


9 posted on 08/28/2018 8:09:09 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: BenLurkin

There are snow warnings in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Forty years ago this would have been proof we were entering a new ICE AGE. In fact, the Rocky Mountain area I left forty years ago should be under a mile of ice by now. It is not. Still free and clear.


10 posted on 08/28/2018 8:12:14 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DeweyCA

I am so glad these clowns articulated the open-mindeness of the scientific investigation process so well. (Yes, that is extreme sarcasm).


11 posted on 08/28/2018 8:12:39 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: DeweyCA

Yes, climate change is real and has been happening since the Creation.

However, that mankind can have any more than a seventh order effect on it is fantasy.


12 posted on 08/28/2018 8:12:48 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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Yeah...climate has changed all the time throughout natural history. Just like the Ice Age disappeared. And no amount of taxes levied could have stopped it. That is a scam and a flim flam.


13 posted on 08/28/2018 8:13:25 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: DeweyCA

Calling me a denier because i don’t except your pseudo science really hurts my feelings.


14 posted on 08/28/2018 8:13:54 AM PDT by Leep
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To: DeweyCA
Fringe voices will protest about “free speech”. No one should prevent them from expressing their views, whether held cynically or misguidedly. However, no one is obliged to provide them with a platform,...

Note the "fringe voices pejorative designed to discredit and ridicule. Next, note the hypocrisy of acknowledging "free speech" because it's still politically correct to feign that, but in the very same sentence the author states, "no one is obliged to provide them with a platform".

So yeah, free speech, but Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, et.al., are justified in censoring an opposing view.

In other words, free speech, but only if the left approves, otherwise one is not entitled to free speech.

15 posted on 08/28/2018 8:14:09 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: DeweyCA

Obama said it was settled science ,LOL


16 posted on 08/28/2018 8:14:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“...Leftists (which includes most global warming advocates) are becoming more brazen in their attempts to censor any dissent....”

It is because the “opposition” is near nonexistent and what they do NOT DO is differentiate between natural climate change and their sham, MAN-MADE climate change. As per the RAT play book, their shams are always about something that is always contentious and not clearly demonstrable.

17 posted on 08/28/2018 8:15:19 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: lgjhn23

No one expects the Climate Inquisition.


18 posted on 08/28/2018 8:16:41 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: EagleUSA

Yes, warmist idiots, there are seasons and variations. No, you anti-reality, anti-science retards, mankind is a minor, minor influence on those processes. Did you ever see the sun???


19 posted on 08/28/2018 8:17:49 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: DeweyCA
Climate change is real.

Assertions are not science. Blind faith is not science.

20 posted on 08/28/2018 8:18:22 AM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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