[neverdem]

The author is one of the few commies who didn't fall for the man-made global warming fear mongering.

[skimask]

You can’t call it “Global Warming” anymore. It’s now called “Climate Change”. This way if it gets warmer it’s mans fault, if it gets colder it’s mans fault. Just go out and buy lots of carbon credits from Algore. But in reality, weather it gets colder or warmer, we all know it’s Bush’s fault because he stole the 2000 election from Algore.

[rogue yam]

Cockburn is redder than a monkey’s ass but he has been calling b.s. on what he terms “neo-Malthusianism” for a long time.

[Rudder]

Excellent essay on the lunacy and risk of the anthropogenic global-warming movement. It's worth sending to e-mail friends., etc.

Peer review is frequently a way of controlling debate, even curtailing it. Many people who fall back on peer-reviewed science seem afraid to have out the intellectual argument.

Having been at both ends (reviewer and reviewee) of the peer review process of life science articles, my experiences don't support this statement, however. To date, I have never seen an instance of its use in stifling debate.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nd.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“When The Coin In The Coffer Rings, A Soul From Purgatory Springs!” — Dominican Friar Johann Tetzel

[snowsislander]

Here in the West, the so-called ‘war on global warming’ is reminiscent of medieval madness. You can now buy Indulgences to offset your carbon guilt. If you fly, you give an extra 10 quid to British Airways; BA hands it on to some non-profit carbon-offsetting company which sticks the money in its pocket and goes off for lunch. This kind of behaviour is demented.

That description seems all too true, except that Mr. Cockburn's summary leaves out that the U.N. also seems determined to tax this silliness along the way.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"The author is one of the few commies who didn't fall for the man-made global warming fear mongering."

However he is a hard core Commie who does not believe in free speech for anyone but himself.

The left is beginning to remind me of Russia in the early thirties when purges and murders of the loyal Bolsheviks went on wholesale under Stalin.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Interesting that his advertisement (buy my book) attacks the classic boogyman of corporations as much as politicians and enviro’ extremists....

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH

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Bit of an oxymoron going on here..

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Beckwith]

Cockburn is to the left of Karl Marx and crazier than Dennis Kucinich.

[Albion Wilde]

The author is one of the few commies who didn't fall for the man-made global warming fear mongering.

Another incisive and funny! explanation of ludicrous celebrity fear-mongering, academic grant-seeking and corporate exploitation of environmental fears is the 2004 book State of Fear by Michael Crichton, Harvard-educated doctor and author of many blockbusters, including Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, and the TV show "ER."

Wikipedia says, "Crichton warns both sides of the global warming debate against the politicization of science. He provides an example of the disastrous combination of pseudo-science and good intentions, in the early 20th-century idea of eugenics. He finishes by endorsing the management of wilderness and the continuation of research into all aspects of the Earth's environment." [emphases mine.]

[Oberon]

pingferlater

[READINABLUESTATE]

Good read, thanks.

[Old Professer]

And he didn’t fall for the Clintons either, he was pushed.

[dead]

Here in the West, the so-called ‘war on global warming’ is reminiscent of medieval madness. You can now buy Indulgences to offset your carbon guilt. If you fly, you give an extra 10 quid to British Airways; BA hands it on to some non-profit carbon-offsetting company which sticks the money in its pocket and goes off for lunch. This kind of behaviour is demented.

Funny stuff. Hippies are so stupid.

[Tribune7]

The nuclear industry is benefiting immeasurably from the current catastrophism. Last year, for example, the American nuclear regulatory commission speeded up its process of licensing; there is an imminent wave of nuclear plant building. Many in the nuclear industry see in the story about CO2 causing climate change an opportunity to recover from the adverse publicity of Chernobyl.

BWWWWWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Now, we will build those dams and kill the snail darter!!!!

BWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Frankly, I always thought it was the coal people behind Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Read soon. Amazing stuff.

[Lancey Howard]

Huh. Welcome, Alexander Cockburn, to your fascist Democrat world.

[neverdem]

UN: climate change may cost $20 trillion (laying the groundwork for Kyoto 2, one Barf at a time)

John McCain is an Outright Liar! (Time for some Real Straight Talk)

Sensor Deprivation Statism gone mad.

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