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The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial
New York Times ^ | November 26, 2018 | Paul Krugman

Posted on 11/26/2018 7:50:07 PM PST by EdnaMode

The Trump administration is, it goes without saying, deeply anti-science. In fact, it’s anti-objective reality. But its control of the government remains limited; it didn’t extend far enough to prevent the release of the latest National Climate Assessment, which details current and expected future impacts of global warming on the United States.

True, the report was released on Black Friday, clearly in the hope that it would get lost in the shuffle. The good news is that the ploy didn’t work.

The assessment basically confirms, with a great deal of additional detail, what anyone following climate science already knew: Climate change poses a major threat to the nation, and some of its adverse effects are already being felt. For example, the report, written before the latest California disaster, highlights the growing risks of wildfire in the Southwest; global warming, not failure to rake the leaves, is why the fires are getting ever bigger and more dangerous.

But the Trump administration and its allies in Congress will, of course, ignore this analysis. Denying climate change, no matter what the evidence, has become a core Republican principle. And it’s worth trying to understand both how that happened and the sheer depravity involved in being a denialist at this point.

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To: Nifster; EdnaMode
Gosh, appears it's time to drag out the ole 'We're All Gonna Die Without Global Central Planning & Increased Taxation' fake-science climate hysteria, again.

Here's what a correctly maintained temperature station looks like (notice temps declining, on chart at right):

And, here is a poorly-maintained temperatures-gathering station, notice it is situated next to multiple heat sources - voila!, 'Global Warming' (this faulty-data gathering problem is *COMMON* for a MAJORITY of the weather stations used across the US!):

From: http://www.surfacestations.org/

41 posted on 11/27/2018 12:27:35 AM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: budj

I believe the essence of conservatism is believing in the total depravity of all mankind, Jew and gentile, denier and dupe, and lying pompous pretentious knowitall windbags. So if he thinks we’re bad, he’s halfway there.


42 posted on 11/27/2018 1:27:34 AM PST by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: EdnaMode
“The left loves science. Except when it comes to abortion. And gender.”

Yep. They politicize everything.

No one is denying that climate changes. It has over and over and over again since the beginning of the Earth. We all learn about it when studying glaciation, the formation of the Great Lakes and Finger Lakes etc. during grade school. Climate may be changing now, but it is difficult to sort out what are temporary trends or changes in weather vs true climate change. It's even harder to pin any changes in climate on human activities - particularly when using computer modeling of processes we don't fully understand.

The left’s stance on this is based on ideology and partisanship, not science.

43 posted on 11/27/2018 2:11:44 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: EdnaMode

And krugman will believe in the tooth fairy. These people show how intelligence lacking they are and also how gullible they are. Thwy come across as weak, believing these stories made up to further their foolish ideas.


44 posted on 11/27/2018 3:03:03 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: EdnaMode

I read the first sentence. Then I saw who wrote it. I could not go on after that.


45 posted on 11/27/2018 3:49:56 AM PST by stevem
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To: EdnaMode

Still; waiting for just one of the many doomsday predictions by them over the last 20 years or so....they keep changing their stories and I haven’t seen even one of their predictions come true. Maybe they haven’t cleaned their crystal balls and the reply is hazy...so they keep trying again.....


46 posted on 11/27/2018 4:13:48 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: EdnaMode

Like in France. Paul Krugman doesn’t have THAT depravity in mind.

Where flyover country folks get wiped out do Macron can secure his re-election.

Which has nothing to do with climate change.


47 posted on 11/27/2018 4:30:26 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: EdnaMode

The left continues to pin its hopes on the climate change hoax as the vehicle to bring down capitalism. When the majority is prosperous and well fed, it’s about their only chance.


48 posted on 11/27/2018 4:41:19 AM PST by Spok
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To: JPJones

No, he is a hate-monger.


49 posted on 11/27/2018 5:09:36 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: EdnaMode

I’ll wear my “Depravity: badge with honor.


50 posted on 11/27/2018 6:25:32 AM PST by RatRipper (The Democrat Party is the party of liars, swindlers, cheats and unbridled immorality.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I think the answer to all of your questions is... none of the Global Change Alarmists have ever thought about those aspects, they just want more money.


51 posted on 11/27/2018 6:33:14 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: EdnaMode

Hoax.


52 posted on 11/27/2018 6:35:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: 4Liberty

Yup. Ways to screw up the data


53 posted on 11/27/2018 6:42:15 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: aquila48
".... the sheer depravity involved in being a denialist at this point...."

Boy, the irony must have gone right over Krugman's head.

Krugman calling someone who doesn't believe in human-caused climate change, depraved, is like his arse telling his brain, "I do my thinking down here, not up there."

Krugman is not the model for intelligent thinking.

54 posted on 11/27/2018 7:28:55 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: EdnaMode

Apparently, Paul Krugman thinks Global Warming is the reason the Border Patrol agent set off an explosive target at his baby shower/gender reveal party.

I’m waiting to find out how Global Warming is responsible for the lack of sunspots which will lead to an ice age.


55 posted on 11/27/2018 9:54:00 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Peter ODonnell
Funny how this climate change can cause forest fires and blizzards simultaneously.

Whether it's climate change, the JFK assassination, the deep state illegally surveilling the Trump campaign...; the gubermint can lie to the little people.

The most important part of getting the lies accepted is getting the control of the presstitutes so that 24/7, the propagandists spread the lies no matter how ridiculous the story becomes.

In the climate change case, the Deep State's theme is CO2 levels almost totally control the Earth's temperature variations. This video shows there is a correlation between solar activity and Earth's climate which destroys the global warming crowd's arguments.

YOUTUBE Professor Valentina Zharkova: The Solar Magnet Field and the Terrestrial Climate

This graph shows that with RAW TEMPERATURE numbers there is NO correlation with rising CO2 levels because the temperatures have varied but the highest temperatures were in the 1930's, NOT the last decades as the global warming crowd have tried to show. The only increasing tempertures on the NOAA graph are the ADJUSTED TEMPERTURES.

The fraudsters correct tempertures so that they show increases that correspond with the rising CO2 levels. The raw temperatures do NOT.

What this NOAA graph really shows is that there is NO significant effect on tempertures with changes in CO2 concentrations!

56 posted on 11/27/2018 8:18:01 PM PST by politicianslie (OPTIMIST-Glass 1/2 full- PESSIMIST 1/2 empty TO ENGINEER, Glass is twice as big as it needs to be!)
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