Posted on 10/13/2017 9:47:49 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Al Gore recently had a telling altercation with a journalist. The Spectators Ross Clark wanted to ask him about Miami sea-level rises suggested in the new film, An Inconvenient Sequel. The reporter started to explain that he had consulted Florida International University sea-level-rise expert Shimon Wdowinski. Gores response: Never heard of him is he a denier? Then he asked the journalist, Are you a denier?
When Clark responded that he was sure climate change is a problem but didnt know how big, Gore declared, You are a denier.
I was recently on the receiving end of a similar rebuff from Chiles environment minister. Id written an op-ed for a Chilean newspaper that, among other things, quoted UN findings on how little the Paris climate treaty would achieve and argued that vast investment in green energy research and development is a better policy. Marcelo Mena proclaimed, There is no room for your climate-denying rhetoric in Chile.
Something odd and dangerous is happening when even people who accept the reality of man-made climate change are labeled deniers. The unwillingness to discuss which policies work best means we end up with worse choices. Consider the case of Roger Pielke, Jr, a political scientist who worked extensively on climate change. He believes that climate change is real, human emissions of greenhouse gases justify action and there should be a carbon tax.
But he drew the ire of climate campaigners because his research has shown that the increasing costs from hurricane damage is not caused by storms made more intense by climate-change but by more and pricier property built in vulnerable areas. He took issue with the UNs influential International Panel for Climate Change over a chart in its 2007 report that seemed to imply causation when there was only circumstantial evidence.
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The proper question that should be posed to him is “You’ve bought beach-front property in California. Doesn’t that make you a denier, too?”.
Gore says: “I will only talk to people who are in on the scam.”
Algore meant to say, “Are you a DONATOR?”-not denier
Tyrants depend on the demonization of opposition and the suppression of dissent.
You are messing with a cult so don’t be surprised when you are labeled as a heretic if you don’t toe the line.
Yup. You’re only allowed to recite the incantation that you “believe in climate change”, and after that, you must leave it to the experts.
I am a denier that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant responsible for global warming.
The climate has changed since the beginning of time and will continue to change until the end of time.
We are just along for the ride.
When the Sun goes dormant again, earth will be covered in ice again.
Everywhere but the tropics will be uninhabitable.
Chicago will be under a mile of ice again.
Ocean levels have been rising for over 20,000 years. There was a land bridge between Alaska and Russia. It was the eskimo sleds that caused global warming not volcanos or fires sending out CO2 into the atmosphere. /Sarc.
Cult is exactly right.
There is a word for this kind of problem, but I can’t remember what it is.
I actually saw this same exact attitude from a lot of Trump supporters here. Even if someone liked trump, but were concerned about a single thing he did, there were some supporters here that threw around “why don’t you go to DU, you never-trumper!”.
That kind of attitude annoys me no matter where I see it. It actually is the REAL issue for me, regardless of what issue it’s tied to. It especially annoys and saddens me when I see it within my own family (FR) being used as a weapon against those with whom one disagrees.
I agree. See my post before this one...
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the suns planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
How climate change is "turning up the dial" on California wildfires
PG&E power lines linked to wine country fires (Tree hugger downside)
Wine Country fires: Gov. Brown vetoed 2016 bill aimed at power line, wildfire safety (link provided by FReeper Valpal1)
Climate change is man-made imo. Except not in the way that global warming alarmists want the sheeple to think.
That's just gonna make the Glowing Bull Warming god even angrier than he is already!
My teeth are sore from mashing we are so doomed. Nothing can save us now.
Freaking iPad’s evil Otto Koreck got me again...That should have “teeth sore from gnashing”, but I guess “mashing” works, too.
When Clark responded that he was sure climate change is a problem but didnt know how big, Gore declared, You are a denier.
Sounds like dialogue for a Monty Python skit about the Inquisition. "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition."
The movie “Snow Piercer” is going to be the result of these cultists. As long as they are in back of the train, I don’t care.
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