A Tennessee Fireman's Solution to Climate Change (let's make the deniers pay)

Forbes ^ | 19 April 2012 | Steve Zwick

[CounterCounterCulture]

Let’s take a page from those Tennessee firemen we heard about a few times last year – the ones who stood idly by as houses burned to the ground because their owners had refused to pay a measly $75 fee.

We can apply this same logic to climate change.

We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn until the innocent are rescued*. Let’s swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices.

They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?

[jtal]

So "Fireman" should come to mean the usage found in the novel Fahrenheit 451.

[GBA]

Is this sarcasm or just seriously stupid? I can’t tell.

[Obadiah]

And people wonder why gun sales have skyrocketed! We see how very, very close we are to Fascism and the bloodshed that Liberals will easily look to implement.

If history is our guide, and we now know the corrupt MSM is actively working in support of Fascist Liberals (Journ-O-Lists anyone?, then people ought to take all this into consideration.

[CounterCounterCulture]

The latter.

[jdsteel]

How about making the economic deniers pay for the results of their Keynesian policy disasters throughout history? How about making the “Fannie Mae bubble” deniers pay for the results of their policy disasters? They broke the world economy.

[CounterCounterCulture]

After posting his opinion piece, he received a lot of feedback and posted this response:

Take Two: Who Should Pay For Damage From Climate Change?

[Salvey]

How about making the anti-drilling fools pay us for the difference between the current price of gasoline and what it would be if we had a sensible drilling policy in place.

[marktwain]

This really needs a barf alert.

There are so many false assertions in the blather that it is hard to know where to start. The idea that the climate models are accurately predicting what has happened in the last 15 years is laughable.

We have had 15 years of essentially flat line in global temperature. None of the “climate change” models that are predicting significant “global warming” predicted this.

I am sure that some models now show this because the people who have the models are constantly changing them to reflect what reality is now. That is not prediction. That is simply tweaking a computer program to reflect history.

This is not science. This is political advocacy.

[backwoods-engineer]

These people really, Really, REALLY want a freaking hot civil war, don't they?

They'll get it. Come and try to burn my gorebull-warming-denying house, you commies. Just try it. There'll be some .308 lead warming your climate.

[stylin19a]

hey Steve:
An “almost hypothetical” yes or no question:
Taking humans totally out of the picture: “Does Climate Change?”

[moovova]

This link was posted previously and I visted the Forbes article, read the few posted comments and forgot about it.

You re-posted the article, I re-visited Forbes, and WOW...

The “denier” (of which I am one) comments have blossomed into a complete and total slam against the author (Steve Zwick).

Good.

Thanks for re-posting...because reading the current crop of comments at the Forbes site give me hope.

[GOPJ]

. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn until the innocent are rescued*. Let’s swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices.

Let's put these crazy liberals in the looney bin where they belong... I assume the Secret Service is looking into this guy - sounds dangerous to me... then again they might be too busy whoring around...

[USNBandit]

This author is a complete freak who is still buying offsets for his electric use and airplane flights. The offset (might as well be called indulgences) racket has been shown to be a scam a long time ago. As far as I can tell it was just a way for people like Al Gore to make money off global warming.

[Pirsig289]

Just a question, somethig I have been wondering about. Since we have been told over and over the world is warming and graciers are melting...Does anyone know of anything, any place in the world, that has gone under water...If it has, I can’t find it.

[DesertRhino]

Ever notice,, nobody has to menace, threaten, guilt-trip, or cajole me into believing in gravity, tornadoes in the midwest, great white sharks and poison snakes?

The more shrill they become,, the more they are exposed as frauds. The scam is being exposed.

[DesertRhino]

Ever notice,, nobody has to menace, threaten, guilt-trip, or cajole me into believing in gravity, tornadoes in the midwest, great white sharks and poison snakes?

The more shrill they become,, the more they are exposed as frauds. The scam is being exposed.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This article is gibberish. The earliest global warming climate models predicted ocean level increases of 2 feet and average temperature increases of 5 degrees by 2000.

None of this happened.

[Lazamataz]

Hunt every fascist down and kill them.

Seriously. It's time.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

By all means, let us apply “insurance” principles to climate change. You don't pay your insurance — your house is allowed to burn. You don't pay your climate change “insurance”; you suffer the consequences.

The key is to allow us “deniers” the choice of opting out of paying the climate change “insurance” fees. We don't pay for: “cap and trade”; carbon taxes; offsets; subsidies to “green energy”; subsidies for electric cars; grants to “climate scientists” for bogus research; anti-”global warming” propaganda campaigns; etc.

If I could get out of paying the fees; I'd take the chance that “global warming” will burn my house down.