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Liberal Slate Editor Weisberg Second-Guesses the Potential of Climate Change Catastrophe
NewsBusters ^ | April 6, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/06/2009 8:31:40 PM PDT by Rufus2007

Remember when the alarmist were taking the premise that anthropogenic global warming was more of a threat to the planet than just polar bears and penguins, but also sea levels and catastrophic weather patterns?

Jacob Weisberg, the editor in chief of the Slate Group and author of "The Bush Tragedy," presents seven things taken for granted that might not be completely correct in a column for the April 13 issue of Newsweek.

"A lot of premises have turned out to be wrong lately," Weisberg wrote. "I'm not talking about evanescent bits of conventional wisdom, but about overarching assumptions that were widely shared across the political spectrum."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; globalwarming; newsweek; slate
Alas, a breakthrough? The global warming brigade won't stand for this...
1 posted on 04/06/2009 8:31:40 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Ha! We’re going below freezing tonight in Texas. I’m laughing my whatzits off, knowing that average people are beginning, finally, to understand the substance of the lie. Whether they will care or not, well, that’s another story. At least, till summer, they’ll see through the hype.


2 posted on 04/06/2009 8:39:55 PM PDT by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: wgflyer

Chance of snow flurries here..


3 posted on 04/06/2009 8:40:40 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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4 posted on 04/06/2009 9:00:37 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (What new from the Thief-in-Chief?)
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To: Rufus2007

God forbid someone post the actual TIME article on FR. You’d be tarred and feathered by now if you had.

Good you found a way around that.


5 posted on 04/06/2009 9:02:30 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Rufus2007
Remember Gore and others bleating about the world reaching a global warming 'tipping point' a couple years back?

Had a 'white April' this morning. Snow everywhere in NE Illinois. Was snowing during the day, also.

6 posted on 04/06/2009 9:17:47 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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