No change in political climate (Ellen Goodman: Global warming deniers are like Holocaust deniers)

Boston Globe ^ | February 9, 2007 | Ellen Goodman

[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.

[EternalVigilance]

Speaking of lightbulbs: I think Ellen Goodman is a twenty watter.

[EagleUSA]

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 ???

[EEDUDE]

You missed a decimal point.

2.0 Watts

[EternalVigilance]

Dang. Thanks for catching that!

[coconutt2000]

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.

[Argus]

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.

[bjc]

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)

[EternalVigilance]

Good chance you're right! :-)

[lilylangtree]

Yeah, right. Goodman considers herself an expert. (sarc)

[I see my hands]

"Let's just say"

That's all it takes on the left.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ellen Goodman is your typical liberal columnist flunky.

[Rakkasan1]

I'm 90% sure the writer hatched that way.

[EternalVigilance]

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.

[Ouderkirk]

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.

[VeniVidiVici]

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?

[Rummyfan]

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!

[theDentist]

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.

[LYSandra]

Isn't she the plagerist?

[Ouderkirk]

Goodman to be a blithering dolt with limited talent who must have something on one of the Globe's editors

Or did the Globe editor get some on her.... blue dress?

[Lijahsbubbe]

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.