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No change in political climate (Ellen Goodman: Global warming deniers are like Holocaust deniers)
Boston Globe ^
| February 9, 2007
| Ellen Goodman
Posted on 02/09/2007 12:09:05 PM PST by EternalVigilance
On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a light bulb. OK, an environmentally friendly, compact fluorescent light bulb.
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By every measure, the U N 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is "unequivocal." The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
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Ellen Goodman's e-mail address is goodman@globe.com.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: censorship; criticaltheory; culturalmarxism; deniers; dumb; frankfurtschool; globalwarming; pc
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Speaking of lightbulbs: I think Ellen Goodman is a twenty watter.
To: EternalVigilance
Hey Ellen -- the earth has been warming and cooling for a very long time...read a high school science book. Now, what are you going to write about ???
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:11:07 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: EternalVigilance
You missed a decimal point.
2.0 Watts
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:12:28 PM PST
by
EEDUDE
To: EEDUDE
Dang. Thanks for catching that!
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:13:19 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
To: EternalVigilance
Speaking of lightbulbs: I think Ellen Goodman is a twenty watter. You're giving her too many pollution credits. She's a candle in the wind.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:13:43 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: EternalVigilance
The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get. Six hundred years ago, 99% of scientists were certain the Earth was flat and maggots spontaneously generated in rotten meat.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:13:44 PM PST
by
Argus
To: EternalVigilance
Probably.
My response:
Ms. Goodman:
Are you aware of any scientific research that indicates that variations in solar activity is not the primary contributor to current warming pattern? Put me down as a skeptic as to anthropogenic role in climate change until I see the scientific evidence that rules out the most obvious cause.
In the mean time, I suggest that if you want to abate your CO2 footprint, plant some trees.
Respectfully,
(Name witheld on account of fear of being burned as a heretic and denier)
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:13:54 PM PST
by
bjc
(Check the data!!)
To: coconutt2000
Good chance you're right! :-)
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:14:18 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
To: EternalVigilance
Yeah, right. Goodman considers herself an expert. (sarc)
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:16:04 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: EternalVigilance
"Let's just say" That's all it takes on the left.
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To: EternalVigilance
Ellen Goodman is your typical liberal columnist flunky.
To: Argus
I'm 90% sure the writer hatched that way.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:17:45 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: bjc
While I certainly agree with all of the rightful scepticism about Ms. Goodman's unibomber-like views, I'm waiting for comments on her outrageous comparison of those who doubt with holocaust-deniers.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:17:52 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
To: EternalVigilance
There are astonishing gaps between Republican science and Democratic science. Try these numbers: Only 23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe the warming is due to humans, while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it. So what you are saying is the democRat students are like lemmings. Blindly following the paradigm as laid out by their liberal professors.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:19:17 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
To: EternalVigilance
On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a light bulb. OK, an environmentally friendly, compact fluorescent light bulb. BZZZZZ! Wrong answer, Ellen. You do-gooder watermelon types should have had florescent bulbs YEARS ago! Or, perhaps, you were thinking they were too expensive? Hmmmm?
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:22:24 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Celebrate Monocacy!)
To: EternalVigilance
Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. Go buy some more light bulbs Ellen!
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:23:48 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: EternalVigilance
As I recall, anyone outside the Marxist conclaves of Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and Amherst consider Goodman to be a blithering dolt with limited talent who must have something on one of the Globe's editors.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:26:36 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: theDentist
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:27:26 PM PST
by
LYSandra
To: theDentist
Goodman to be a blithering dolt with limited talent who must have something on one of the Globe's editorsOr did the Globe editor get some on her.... blue dress?
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02/09/2007 12:28:22 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
To: EternalVigilance
Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. What a moonbat. They aren't close to on par.
You can't "deny" the future.
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