Posted on 08/08/2007 8:22:34 AM PDT by finnman69
Newsweek equates global warming skeptics with Holocaust deniers and accuses reputable scientists of being paid to create confusion in the face of consensus. Galileo is once again on trial.
Even the supporters of global warming hype found the title of Newsweek's Aug. 13 attack on skeptics, "The Truth About Denial," offensive. The use of the word "denier" is deliberate, an attempt to paint as either crazy or corrupt what Al Gore has proclaimed as Truth. Reputable scientists have been accused by a major news magazine of being paid to lie.
"Let's be blunt," said Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. "This allusion is an affront to those who suffered and died in the Holocaust. This allusion has no place in the discourse on climate change. I say this as someone fully convinced of a significant human role in the behavior of the climate system."
Newsweek says "the denial machine is running at full throttle" and is a "well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists."
How well-funded? Newsweek cites Exxon Mobil "giving $19 million over the years to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)" to produce what eminent climatologist Sen. Jay Rockefeller is quoted as calling "very questionable data" on climate change.
No mention is made of the $3 billion contribution to the global warming crusade by Virgin Air's gazillionaire owner Richard Branson alone. Donations such as these are the reason the 2004 budgets of the Sierra Club Foundation and the National Resources Defense Council were $91 million and $57 million respectively.
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Why would anyone doubt the pure hearted former Vice President?
Newsweak is an American equivalent of Pravda. Newsweak is a Leftist propaganda rag, no more, no less.
If Goebbels were alive and kicking today he would be able to identify his work in the study and execution of press control of the masses and give five gold stars to Newsweak.
Newsweek’s circulation is plummeting. Of the three US weekly news magazines, I expect Newsweek will be the first to fold with a few years. Maybe sooner.
Newsweak is filling the void of the soon to shut down Weekly World News
If Goebbels were alive today, he would be tearing the lining of his coffin trying to get out.
But you have to admit that Science would never have made the great progress it has without the outstanding contributions from Newsweek.
As a scientist and a conservative, the more I think about your statement, the funnier it gets! LOL!!!
As a scientist and conservative, myself, thanks.
I should add that I am a theoretical physicist, used to modeling physical systems, have never received a penny from any energy company, and object to the GW cr*p on scientific grounds.
owlbore was on doprah yesterday and I felt like hurling.
=time? Doubtful
Retired physical chemist here, with a career in semiconductors and microstructures — with interest in the physics of failure...
Newsweek Disgrace: ‘Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine’
Whatever...I do not pay for a single copy of NewsPuke and I don’t pay any attentiong to AlGore. My day is much better. Screw ‘em.
Oh, so you've been studying the continuing lack of success of liberal-socialist models in creating economic wealth and providing for growth of economies.
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