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Now even climate-change believers count as ‘deniers’
NY Post ^ | October 12, 2017 | Bjorn Lomborg

Posted on 10/13/2017 9:47:49 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

Al Gore recently had a telling altercation with a journalist. The Spectator’s Ross Clark wanted to ask him about Miami sea-level rises suggested in the new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel.” The reporter started to explain that he had consulted Florida International University sea-level-rise expert Shimon Wdowinski. Gore’s response: “Never heard of him — is he a denier?” Then he asked the journalist, “Are you a denier?”

When Clark responded that he was sure climate change is a problem but didn’t know how big, Gore declared, “You are a denier.”

I was recently on the receiving end of a similar rebuff from Chile’s environment minister. I’d written an op-ed for a Chilean newspaper that, among other things, quoted UN findings on how little the Paris climate treaty would achieve and argued that vast investment in green energy research and development is a better policy. Marcelo Mena proclaimed, “There is no room for your climate-denying rhetoric in Chile.”

Something odd — and dangerous — is happening when even people who accept the reality of man-made climate change are labeled “deniers.” The unwillingness to discuss which policies work best means we end up with worse choices. Consider the case of Roger Pielke, Jr, a political scientist who worked extensively on climate change. He believes that climate change is real, human emissions of greenhouse gases justify action and there should be a carbon tax.

But he drew the ire of climate campaigners because his research has shown that the increasing costs from hurricane damage is not caused by storms made more intense by climate-change but by more and pricier property built in vulnerable areas. He took issue with the UN’s influential International Panel for Climate Change over a chart in its 2007 report that seemed to imply causation when there was only circumstantial evidence.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechangefraud; climatecult; climatedenier; cult; denier; deniers; fakescience; globalwarming; gore
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You are messing with a cult so don't be surprised when you are labeled as a heretic if you don't toe the line.
1 posted on 10/13/2017 9:47:49 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The proper question that should be posed to him is “You’ve bought beach-front property in California. Doesn’t that make you a denier, too?”.


2 posted on 10/13/2017 9:49:38 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Gore says: “I will only talk to people who are in on the scam.”


3 posted on 10/13/2017 9:51:23 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Algore meant to say, “Are you a DONATOR?”-not denier


4 posted on 10/13/2017 9:53:53 AM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
DENIER!


5 posted on 10/13/2017 9:57:37 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Tyrants depend on the demonization of opposition and the suppression of dissent.


6 posted on 10/13/2017 9:59:03 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

You are messing with a cult so don’t be surprised when you are labeled as a heretic if you don’t toe the line.


You are messing with a cult so don’t be surprised when you are labeled as a heretic if you don’t toe the line EXACTLY.


7 posted on 10/13/2017 9:59:34 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yup. You’re only allowed to recite the incantation that you “believe in climate change”, and after that, you must leave it to the experts.


8 posted on 10/13/2017 9:59:51 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I am a denier that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant responsible for global warming.
The climate has changed since the beginning of time and will continue to change until the end of time.
We are just along for the ride.
When the Sun goes dormant again, earth will be covered in ice again.
Everywhere but the tropics will be uninhabitable.
Chicago will be under a mile of ice again.


9 posted on 10/13/2017 10:00:00 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Ocean levels have been rising for over 20,000 years. There was a land bridge between Alaska and Russia. It was the eskimo sleds that caused global warming not volcanos or fires sending out CO2 into the atmosphere. /Sarc.

10 posted on 10/13/2017 10:02:37 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Cult is exactly right.


11 posted on 10/13/2017 10:02:44 AM PDT by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: DuncanWaring

There is a word for this kind of problem, but I can’t remember what it is.

I actually saw this same exact attitude from a lot of Trump supporters here. Even if someone liked trump, but were concerned about a single thing he did, there were some supporters here that threw around “why don’t you go to DU, you never-trumper!”.

That kind of attitude annoys me no matter where I see it. It actually is the REAL issue for me, regardless of what issue it’s tied to. It especially annoys and saddens me when I see it within my own family (FR) being used as a weapon against those with whom one disagrees.


12 posted on 10/13/2017 10:10:55 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: marktwain

I agree. See my post before this one...


13 posted on 10/13/2017 10:11:20 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: marktwain

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


14 posted on 10/13/2017 10:15:42 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Oshkalaboomboom; All
Consider the following three climate change links. (not necessary to click links)

“Climate change” is man-made imo. Except not in the way that global warming alarmists want the sheeple to think.

15 posted on 10/13/2017 10:18:07 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Uh oh..."here, hold my beer and watch this..." What the heck do they think they are doing harassing the oracle like that???

That's just gonna make the Glowing Bull Warming god even angrier than he is already!

My teeth are sore from mashing we are so doomed. Nothing can save us now.

16 posted on 10/13/2017 10:37:54 AM PDT by GBA (A = 432)
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Freaking iPad’s evil Otto Koreck got me again...That should have “teeth sore from gnashing”, but I guess “mashing” works, too.


17 posted on 10/13/2017 10:43:40 AM PDT by GBA (A = 432)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Gore’s response: “Never heard of him — is he a denier?” Then he asked the journalist, “Are you a denier?”

When Clark responded that he was sure climate change is a problem but didn’t know how big, Gore declared, “You are a denier.”

Sounds like dialogue for a Monty Python skit about the Inquisition. "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition."

18 posted on 10/13/2017 10:44:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
The only proper response for Al Gore:


19 posted on 10/13/2017 11:06:20 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: jonrick46

The movie “Snow Piercer” is going to be the result of these cultists. As long as they are in back of the train, I don’t care.


20 posted on 10/13/2017 11:56:05 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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