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‘Power of ridicule’ – New weapon against climate deniers
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | June 23, 2013 | Joel Connelly

Posted on 06/23/2013 10:03:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

As President Obama readies his program to curb greenhouse gases, climate change action advocates are rolling out a new strategy for controlling verbal emissions by climate change deniers — turning allies of Big Oil and Big Coal into national laughingstocks.

“The power of ridicule should be deployed here,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “You have to get to the point where a major candidate for public office is disqualified when he or she denies climate science.” Schatz was speaking to the annual Netroots Nation conference of progressive bloggers.

Jon Carson, head of Organizing for Action — the group formed as an issue-based successor to the Obama presidential campaign — put it this way: “When a Republican or a Democrat says something crazy on climate, we should be ready to hold them accountable as progressives did on human biology.”

The “War on Women” became a great 2012 selling point for Obama and the Democrats, helped in no part by Republican politicians’ intemperate remarks about rape.

Rep. Todd Aiken, R-Mo., blew away his Senate candidacy by discoursing on “legitimate rape” and how a woman’s body can “shut down pregnancy.” Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock argued that a pregnancy caused by rape was “something that God intended to happen.” Washington’s U.S. House hopeful John Koster discoursed about “the rape thing” and an acquaintance who bore a rapist’s child.

By contrast, Republican presidential candidates in 2012 made all manner of unsubstantiated, often off-the-wall statements about climate. The national media greeted such hot talk with glacial indifference, and has treated alarming climate news in the same fashion.....

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; coal; energy; fascism; globalwarming; obama; palin; rickperry
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To: CottShop

21 posted on 06/23/2013 10:32:37 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: no-to-illegals
What if God refuses to pay?

IRS audit.

22 posted on 06/23/2013 10:35:12 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. This is not the post you are looking for ....move along now....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A "consensus" of scientists that got every single prediction wrong OUGHT to be ridiculed.

Wait....you mean THEY want to point the fingers?

OK....I'm coining a new word..."Chutzpahubris".

23 posted on 06/23/2013 10:35:17 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They want ridicule? I’ve managed to shut up a few man-made global warming whackos with George Carlin’s “Saving the Planet”. (I struck out the f-bombs and sh-words.)

“We’re so self-important. So self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. ‘Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.’ And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these f-—ing people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save the f-—ing planet?

I’m getting tired of that sh—. Tired of that sh—. I’m tired of f-—ing Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a sh— about the planet. They don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.”

The unedited version and the rest is here:

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/videos/130-george-carlin-saving-the-planet


24 posted on 06/23/2013 10:36:22 PM PDT by Victoria_R (Believers in VERY small government: Count Mountjoy/Benter in 2012!!!)
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To: moose07

Thanks moose ... imagine the look on those agents faces in about one second after their announcement to God.


25 posted on 06/23/2013 10:38:24 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The climate change/global warming useful idiots are today’s Flat Earthers.


26 posted on 06/23/2013 10:39:44 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re going to have a hard time ridiculing us while we’re giving them noogies for being such goofy libtards.


27 posted on 06/23/2013 10:44:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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>> climate change deniers

Joel is a climate parity denier.


28 posted on 06/23/2013 10:44:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In January 2011, he became deputy assistant to Obama, operational director of the Office of Public Engagement (OPE). In that job he worked for Obama friend/senior advisor Valerie Jarrett who oversaw OPE. To help Jarrett, widely viewed as distant and prickly, Carson organized “Thursday evening listening sessions.”

29 posted on 06/23/2013 10:49:45 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why do so many believe in man-made climate change? Because junk science tells them so! Besides the widespread belief in the world being flat before Columbus' voyages, here's more highlights in the history of junk science. When the first railroads were built, the junk science of the day warned of the dangers of rail travel, claiming that the human body cannot survive sustained speeds above 30MPH. I'm sure Richard Petty and Chuck Yeager would have good laugh over that. A few years ago we went to the Baseball Hall of Fame. They have an interesting exhibit on the old Negro Leagues. One artifact I remember was an excerpt from a medical journal published in the 1940's that argued against integrating the Major Leagues on the grounds that Blacks were athletically INFERIOR to Whites. That, folks was widely accepted JUNK SCIENCE 70 yrs. ago. Obviously, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Bob Gibson, Willie McCovey, etc never received that memo.
30 posted on 06/23/2013 10:50:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is the take away from all of this. The “climate change” fools have been outed and they have reached the point of desperation where they have to do something to save their sorry asses. Most people are starting to wise up to the fact that they have been lied to all of these years.


31 posted on 06/23/2013 10:50:13 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Victoria_R

I was about to post that video too!

George Carlin nails it.


32 posted on 06/23/2013 10:51:09 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48; Victoria_R
George Carlin nails it.

Reminds me of Pretentious Foods commentary in Brain Droppings. Pure ridicule.

G.C.'S GUIDE TO DINING OUT

RESTAURANTS

There are certain clues that tell you how much a restaurant will cost. If the word cuisine appears in the advertising, it will be expensive. If they use the word food, it will be moderately priced. However, if the sign says eats, even though you'll save some money on food, your medical bills may be quite high.

I don't like trendy food. When I hear, "sauteed boneless panda groin," I know I'm in the wrong place. There's such a thing as pretentious food. Puree of woodchuck, marinated bat nipples, weasel chops, porcupine cacciatore. Or fried eagle. A guy said to me recently, "C'mon, we'll go to Baxter's, they have really great fried eagle." I'm thinkin' to myself, "Do I really wanna know this guy?"

However, if you are going to dine with pretentious people, here are some items you can order that are sure to impress: deep-dish moose balls, diced yak, badger gumbo, gorilla fondue, filet of hyena, jackal tartare, rack of prairie dog, free-range mole en brochette, wolf noodle soup, loin of chipmunk, curried woodpecker, stir-fried weasel, penguin scallopini, sweet-and-sour loon heads, whale chowder, toasted snail penises, koala flambe, wombat souvlaki, grenadine of mule, and candied goat anus.


33 posted on 06/23/2013 11:27:31 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
 photo al-gore-r.jpg

I had a few Al Gore videos bookmarked, but they have been removed and I did not make copies.

If anyone has them or knows where to find them, please post a link.

1.) The center of the Earth is millions of degrees...
2.) The North Polar Ice Cap will be gone in 5 years...

34 posted on 06/23/2013 11:59:45 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots

“several million degrees...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnpdjXIZVro

polar ice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI


35 posted on 06/24/2013 12:24:21 AM PDT by deks ("...the battle...liberty against the overreach of the federal government" Ken Cuccinelli)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The President wants to use ridicule as a weapon?

Bring it on.

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36 posted on 06/24/2013 12:31:00 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The power of ridicule should be deployed here,”

Therein lies our best weapon short of a real one. Elmer Fudd (aka BHO) won’t take too kindly to being laughed at. Don’t bother with his insurance policy; he’s too dumb to realize that he is mocked daily. SWMNBN and the State Dept. are the Wicked Witch and her flying monkeys.

Then there’s Holder who is a Sgt. Schultz clone. The Gang of 8 is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I’m sure that others can come up with suitable aliases for the rest of the regime and Congress.


37 posted on 06/24/2013 12:35:26 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well they could get Obama to sic the IRS all over us deniers, but hey, kinda too late for that.


38 posted on 06/24/2013 12:46:26 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And why we conservatives, especially candidates for political office should study Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”


39 posted on 06/24/2013 1:35:40 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The power of ridicule on the Global Warming side against the power of science on the fact-based science side. Who will win?


40 posted on 06/24/2013 2:46:21 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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