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Posted on 10/17/2015 6:32:08 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
What is your position on the climate-change debate? What would it take to change your mind?
If the answer is It would take a ton of evidence to change my mind, because my understanding is that the science is settled, and we need to get going on this important issue, that’s what I thought, too. This is my story.
More than thirty years ago, I became vegan because I believed it was healthier (it’s not), and I’ve stayed vegan because I believe it’s better for the environment (it is). I haven’t owned a car in ten years. I love animals; I’ll gladly fly halfway around the world to take photos of them in their natural habitats. I’m a Democrat: I think governments play a key role in helping preserve our environment for the future in the most cost-effective way possible. Over the years, I built a set of assumptions: that Al Gore was right about global warming, that he was the David going up against the industrial Goliath. In 1993, I even wrote a book about it.
Recently, a friend challenged those assumptions. At first, I was annoyed, because I thought the science really was settled. As I started to look at the data and read about climate science, I was surprised, then shocked. As I learned more, I changed my mind. I now think there probably is no climate crisis and that the focus on CO2 takes funding and attention from critical environmental problems. I’ll start by making ten short statements that should challenge your assumptions and then back them up with an essay.
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Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Give me a break. I'm not as stupid as you seem to think, nor am I miserable reading somebody else's justifications for calling shenanigans on the whole scheme.
Maybe not, but he might just blow a few head gaskets around the liberal world, and all without being paid by the oil companies, like you and me and the rest of us "deniers" are.
Flag for future reference. Amazing that a liberal wrote this.....but will probably lose a lot of his liberal friends.
Read u loud and clear re communicating on any level with Liberals. Living in the Austin area the past half century, I am forced to. In that vast experience with liberals, I have learned that THE ONLY communication method that works is just DON’T !!!!
One good example is one of my lawyers. He really is not a Liberal but his lawyer wife is and his two teenage daughters are so he is just to survive. But, despite being a Liberal he is a damn good lawyer and trustworthy. Finding a trustworthy lawyer is like winning the lottery. So, he keeps his opinions to himself and I do the same. It works.
Bookmarked. Here, in one handy place, is a compendium of arguments any one of which challenges the GW orthodoxy and in toto, demolish it. I don’t think the adherents would be resorting to petitions demanding the jailing of skeptics if they weren’t starting to feel desperate. To the author: well done.
Two words...Freeman Dyson
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