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Full title: Thomas Friedman On Conservatives Questioning Global Warming: ‘That’s Not Conservatism, That’s Trotskyite Radicalism’
1 posted on 04/07/2014 3:17:54 AM PDT by markomalley
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So if my views are “Trotskyite” that must make Obama, the MSM & most of Academia “Stalinist”? I can see that!


2 posted on 04/07/2014 3:24:54 AM PDT by Tallguy
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So anthropogenic climate deniers now have to worry about warmists with pickaxes in their hands? Nonbelievers must be killed?


3 posted on 04/07/2014 3:27:24 AM PDT by driftless2
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“Let me put it in personal terms. So your son or daughter has a disease and you go to 100 doctors. 97% of them, 97 of the hundred say this is the cause and this is the cure. And 3% say this is the cause and this is the cure. That is what it is on the climate science.”

I guess the one doctor who said:"it is just a phase, she'll come around" doesn't count.

With some diseases, you need no cure: let the climate run its course. If people look back far enough, they'll see this has happened before and we are just along for the ride.

4 posted on 04/07/2014 3:43:19 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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FTA: Friedman claimed that 97 percent of scientists believe in climate change and...


83.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.


5 posted on 04/07/2014 3:56:21 AM PDT by Peet (The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. - Aristotle)
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"Friedman claimed that 97 percent of scientists believe in climate change"

That makes him an IDIOT right there.

The 97% comes from a static including but ~47 "scientists" cherry picked from some lame survey. Most respondents were dropped from the analysis.

"Misleading the public about consensus opinion regarding global warming, of course, is precisely what the Cook paper sought to accomplish. This is a tried and true ruse perfected by global warming alarmists. Global warming alarmists use their own biased, subjective judgment to misclassify published papers according to criteria that is largely irrelevant to the central issues in the global warming debate. Then, by carefully parsing the language of their survey questions and their published results, the alarmists encourage the media and fellow global warming alarmists to cite these biased, subjective, totally irrelevant surveys as conclusive evidence for the lie that nearly all scientists believe humans are creating a global warming crisis.

These biased, misleading, and totally irrelevant “surveys” form the best “evidence” global warming alarmists can muster in the global warming debate. And this truly shows how embarrassingly feeble their alarmist theory really is."

John Cook is known charlatan shill.

6 posted on 04/07/2014 4:00:38 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Here is his house: You would think he would at least lose the heated pool . . .
7 posted on 04/07/2014 4:15:41 AM PDT by Catphish
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So your son or daughter has a disease and you go to 100 doctors. 97% of them, 97 of the hundred say this is the cause and this is the cure. And 3% say this is the cause and this is the cure. That is what it is on the climate science.

And if your son or daughter has a rare disease that the majority of physicians have never seen, you probably want the specialist knowledge of those 3%.

The validity of science does not lie in how many scientists agree with a particular claim--rather, it lies in the evidence and the significance of the evidence.

I am a scientist, and I am highly skeptical of anthropogenic global warming claims. That is because I have seen no real experimental or observational validation of those claims. I have seen many papers that say "if global warming continues, we can expect to see ___", but that kind of speculation is not evidence of anything.

I have no idea who this Thomas Friedman is. He is probably no one important, who is almost definitely not a scientist.

9 posted on 04/07/2014 4:30:10 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Good thing I don’t watch that drivel or read Friedman.


11 posted on 04/07/2014 4:39:12 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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feh...
12 posted on 04/07/2014 4:48:16 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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Really, I am a scientist, in geology, look at the rock record and prove it to me. I do not think 97 per cent agree.


13 posted on 04/07/2014 4:48:47 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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So that makes the global warm-mongers Stalinists.


14 posted on 04/07/2014 4:58:34 AM PDT by Hugin
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The world renowned scientist wannna be, Thomas Friedman is using the 97% consensus canard to make a point.

Those same 97% scientist could not accurately predict the 24 hour weather, let alone 10 years from now.

Friedman and Cullen are carnival barker charlatans who should be shunned and laughed at.


16 posted on 04/07/2014 5:05:11 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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Friedman always has been a leading Environmental Whacko. He’s part of that big environmental lobby that buys politicians. Together they represent the single biggest threat to the U.S Economy and National Security.


17 posted on 04/07/2014 5:13:50 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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Friedman is a climatologist? I thought he was just a hack journalist. And when he gives up his mega-mansion with its humongous carbon footprint, I might start - might! - to give his alarmist shrieks some credence.
18 posted on 04/07/2014 5:19:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Friedman claimed that 97 percent of scientists believe in climate change

Anyone who uses that as an argument is not qualified to write about science.

Of course, it probably isn't true, but attacking the number (97% ? No, it's really 88% !) accepts the underlying premise.

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT "SCIENTISTS" "BELIEVE". Only the truth matters.

Most of those 97% have no qualifications to evaluate the methods OR the data. And, even if they did, the word "believe" gives the game away. What scientists may or may not "believe" is of no importance. The only thing they bring to the table is evidence, and the job of real scientists is to attack the evidence, and then to attack it again.

19 posted on 04/07/2014 5:20:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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“We saw a four-year drought, worst in Syria’s modern history that preceded the revolution there and produced a million refugees that basically laid the predicate for that revolution”

Even for a warmist alarmist, this is a mind-boggling reach.

Friedman suffers from a Nostradamus complex.

But,hey, judging by his decadent mansion, it works for him ;)


20 posted on 04/07/2014 5:31:00 AM PDT by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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Thomas Friedman On Conservatives Questioning Global Warming: ‘That’s Not Conservatism, That’s Trotskyite Radicalism’

How ironic as Stalin (aka Democrat Party) had Trotsky assassinated.

23 posted on 04/07/2014 5:40:52 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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Thomas Friedman is the same idiot who, when given the opportunity, didn't ask Hillary a single question about Benghazi. A true liberal "journalist" if there ever was one.
24 posted on 04/07/2014 5:43:58 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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Thomas “Loopy” Friedman is a Stalinist. Trotskyite is one of the worst insults he can use.


25 posted on 04/07/2014 5:44:05 AM PDT by jospehm20
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97% say they have the cure and 3% take the opposite position and say they have the cure and all could be wrong!

What a BS technique. Once I would have expected better of SeeBS, but they are little better than an infomercial, which is where that technique should stay.

All they've got to sell is the fear they're using to get money, power and control, so they sell it with propaganda, made up statistics and the testimonies of fools, just like any other crappy product no sane person would buy.

Humans are good, bad and a few of us ugly, but no matter how much we think of ourselves, the Earth is bigger and badder and its climate has been in constant flux long before humans got here.

And now we want to take credit for it?

27 posted on 04/07/2014 5:44:36 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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