Debate Must Replace Scaremongering of Green Climate Alarmists
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Posted on 09/13/2008 10:37:45 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Putting on my cynic hat for a second, I don't think they've overlooked these things at all. Instead, these are precisely what have motivated their love of global warming. Global warming provides the cause that all must rally around. It means putting aside differences for the sake of the great collective good. It means bigger and more powerful government. It means government gets to boss business around. It means government gets to play the role of hero and savior for literally all of humankind.
These are the kinds of things that make lefties tingle (maybe a better term for them would be postmodern cosmopolitan elites or something). In fact, I doubt if they really care whether global warming ever gets solved. Instead, what inspires them are all the good things that comes with working on the solution.
I have been an admirer of Mr Lomborg for a long time; read his books.
The moonbats must be wearing him down if he begins his remarks with this statement.
Of course global warming is real. The consequences are exactly the same whether the cause is 100% natural or 100% anthropogenic. The debate is about what is the driving cause. The evidence and expert opinion is not not settled, and the cause is not known and may never be known.
Further, the IPCC report is 100% a political report, not a scientific one.
Thus beginning his remarks by conceding the moonbat view of "things are settled", and not should we, never mind can we do anything to prevent it becomes the silent, still unanswered question.
Of course the costs are astronomical. What's new? Every one of these nutcase "reports" and "doom scenarios" would literally bankrupt the entire planet, if we listen to the moonbats.
What we need to do is keep the collection of insane books in a prominent library to remind ourselves of the dazzling popularity of these books.
Whatever happened to the ozone hole that was supposed to kill us all?
You haven’t heard? Canada saved the world on that one. I think it was some moonbats in Montreal (or somewhere) that saved our sorry hides on that one. There was a post on FR not too long ago and I have since forgotten the names of the players.
Living out in the country where from my house you can’t even see the neighbors- and I tell the change of seasons by the stars, I am eternally grateful the mentally ill congregate in hives on both coasts.
‘Who decides who lives and who dies? The editorial board of the New York Times? The faculty of Harvard?
In their deep pondering, sooner or later they will ask themselves, “Who has the guns?”.’
‘Free Clue:
It’s not them.’
Don’t be complacent. The NYT and the faculty of supposedly elite universities continually push the Federal government to enact their leftist schemes, with considerable success. The Feds have lots of guns.
If the average temperature of the planet increased by 4.5C, the average would be a nice 19C - close to room temperature but we would still need blankets at night. Some disaster.
True, but if we had a Waco every other day, something would break.
Debate Must Replace Scaremongering of Green Climate Alarmists
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