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Forced Meds? Climate-change skepticism must be 'treated', says enviro-sociologist.
The Register ^ | March 30, 2012 | Lewis Page

Posted on 03/30/2012 6:13:37 PM PDT by aruanan

Climate-change scepticism must be 'treated', says enviro-sociologist

Dubious on warmo peril? You're the kind who'd own slaves


Scepticism regarding the need for immediate and massive action against carbon emissions is a sickness of societies and individuals which needs to be "treated", according to an Oregon-based professor of "sociology and environmental studies". Professor Kari Norgaard compares the struggle against climate scepticism to that against racism and slavery in the US South.

Prof Norgaard holds a B.S. in biology and a master's and PhD in sociology.

"Over the past ten years I have published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements and sociology of emotions," she says.

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; climategate; climategate2; deniers; environmentalist; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; sovietstyletreatment; ussr
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To: aruanan

They are different that the commies that ran the Soviet Union.


21 posted on 03/30/2012 6:30:43 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: cripplecreek

It’s sad that Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney might agree...


22 posted on 03/30/2012 6:31:44 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
They are different that the commies that ran the Soviet Union.

Mostly in degree and they'd claim to be wanting to do it for your own good, not for the proletariat.
23 posted on 03/30/2012 6:32:10 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

She sounds like someone out of “A Brave New World”. Soma anyone?


24 posted on 03/30/2012 6:33:24 PM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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To: marstegreg

More like Soviet-style psychiatric “treatments” for dissidents...


25 posted on 03/30/2012 6:33:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: aruanan

“Over the past ten years I have published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements and sociology of emotions,” she says.

Yeah...and everyone of her students is currently out of work.


26 posted on 03/30/2012 6:33:38 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Charles Martel

Amen.


27 posted on 03/30/2012 6:34:25 PM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: aruanan

OK now if anyone needs help is the sheep which sit there and repeat bumper stickers especially this idiot in that photo.

The left are so thick that they cannot even see how stupid they are or how pathetic they are.
Hell, they’re laughing stock and live in a dream world and they wonder why many make fun of them and think liberalism is a mental disease.


28 posted on 03/30/2012 6:35:35 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: aruanan
I figured this had to be a parody article from one of the a-holes who like to hurt the site by posting phony articles. But, Good Lord, it's for real.

"Over the past ten years I have published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements and sociology of emotions,"

Note that there are no actual scientific disciplines in there. Professors of the soft sciences have always longed to be taken as seriously as physicists, chemists, and mathematicians are. Much mischief has been born of this professional jealousy, not least of which is Marxism itself, which took one crackpot economic theory and imbued it with the magical word "scientific" and, boom: hundreds of millions dead.

29 posted on 03/30/2012 6:35:44 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: cripplecreek

sigh


30 posted on 03/30/2012 6:36:23 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: aruanan

Political dissent = mental illness.

Last seen in the USSR


31 posted on 03/30/2012 6:36:37 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: aruanan

What a loon! If the planet Earth gets warmer, so do the other planetary objects in our solar system. If the planet gets cooler, so do the other planetary objects in our solar system. Hello loon, it’s the Sun at fault here! Mankind is not doing it, whatever you call it - global warming, global cooling, or climate change. It’s the Sun and other natural forces at work. Other natural forces being volcanos, magnetic forces on the core, etc.


32 posted on 03/30/2012 6:37:00 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: aruanan

Another tenured, tax supported lunatic.


33 posted on 03/30/2012 6:38:16 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Kenny500c

Did you know that Europe has just gone thru one of the coldest winters in many years - our Media goons didn’t cover it because that would go against the mantra of AGW/ACC blah blah blah. The last time I read about it a few months ago, 500 people had died due to the extreme weather (not climate). As a resident of Michigan, I am thrilled with the mild winter - an answer to a prayer - You are right on the money!


34 posted on 03/30/2012 6:38:52 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

It’s the curse of the “i” names.

All those poor women born of flower children who thought it was so “cool” or “empowering” to spell their daughters’ names with an i instead of a y...... yeah, most of those women went on to be “Prof. Norgaard”.


35 posted on 03/30/2012 6:39:16 PM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: aruanan

She looks like the type of moron who would buy this “climate change” bull****. Not very bright but you don’t have to be very bright these days to be considered a “professor”. You just have to kiss a lot of Marxist @$$.


36 posted on 03/30/2012 6:41:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to WEAN the government off of our money.)
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To: aruanan

Final exams in the professor's class

37 posted on 03/30/2012 6:43:39 PM PDT by pabianice (")
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To: FlingWingFlyer; aruanan
Not very bright but you don’t have to be very bright these days to be considered a “professor”. You just have to kiss a lot of Marxist @$$.

So true!

38 posted on 03/30/2012 6:45:09 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: FlingWingFlyer; aruanan
Not very bright but you don’t have to be very bright these days to be considered a “professor”. You just have to kiss a lot of Marxist @$$.

So true!

39 posted on 03/30/2012 6:45:12 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Kenny500c

Considering history, AGW may be good to counter a natural and sweeps long term cooling trend we're in for.

40 posted on 03/30/2012 6:45:12 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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