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Opinions: Climate-change deniers are a danger to our security
The Washington Post ^ | December 18, 2018 | by Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 12/19/2018 7:26:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Imagine during the Cold War that one political party, in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Soviet Union was engaged in espionage against the United States, had a nuclear arsenal pointed at the United States, kept Eastern Europe under its thumb and imprisoned dissenters, refused to consider the Soviet Union a danger - of any sort - to the United States or other Western democracies. And they would offer no credible evidence to the contrary, but rather assert that it was all a hoax. Besides, they’d insist (with no evidence) that it was too expensive to address the challenge posed by the Soviet Union, a danger which they claimed didn’t exist (So how expensive could it be? Don’t ask!). Actually, you don’t have to imagine this scenario. Many on the left have made arguments along these lines, and many on the right have responded by saying they were fuzzy-headed, in denial or captive of interest groups.

That is essentially what is going on, only with the parties flipped, in the climate-change debate. Climate-change denial has become as necessary to one’s right-wing identity as aversion to immigration, opposition to most abortions and a disbelief that sexual harassment and assault are widespread. Just as rejecting geopolitical reality became a requirement of inclusion in far-left circles, climate-change denial is a must for those who want to remain in the Trump fold.

At some point, maybe in 2020, Democratic candidates are going to start running on the very sensible conclusion that climate-change deniers are a menace to Americans' economic well-being, comfort and security. It is long past the time to challenge, confront, debunk and frankly, embarrass, adults who’d rather adopt some tribal identification than solve a pressing and all-too-real danger to the country.

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1 posted on 12/19/2018 7:26:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In what way?


2 posted on 12/19/2018 7:27:17 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jenn has gone all over.

She’s nuts.


3 posted on 12/19/2018 7:27:30 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It is long past the time to challenge, confront, debunk and frankly, embarrass, adults who’d rather adopt some tribal identification than solve a pressing and all-too-real danger to the country.

The other day someone asked Rubin how she was a conservative. She refused to answer. But her columns speak volumes to the contrary.

4 posted on 12/19/2018 7:27:33 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BS and very dangerous rhetoric.

Gun rights deniers are a very real and far more credible danger to our society and those of the WPs I’ll should be punished for trying to deny us those rights.


5 posted on 12/19/2018 7:27:49 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

80 years ago many Europeans decided people like Jennifer Rubin were a danger to their security; dangerous message here, not without precedent.


6 posted on 12/19/2018 7:28:14 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t she the house “conservative?”


7 posted on 12/19/2018 7:29:12 AM PST by daler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Torquemada lives!...........................


8 posted on 12/19/2018 7:29:27 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Figuring out an excuse to unleash the FISA Court and NSA on us, eh?


9 posted on 12/19/2018 7:29:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well waht about this. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/11/winter-is-coming-super-grand-solar-minimum.html

Professor Valentina Zharkova gave a presentation of her Climate and the Solar Magnetic Field hypothesis at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in October, 2018.

Zharkova models solar sunspot and magnetic activity. Her models have run at a 93% accuracy and her findings suggest a Super Grand Solar Minimum could begin in 2020.

A Super Grand Solar Minimum would have four magnetic fields out of phase. There was about 40-60 years of cold weather 350 years ago. This was a Maunder Minimum of lower solar activity. The historical cold weather had two magnetic fields out of phase.

Zharkova is predicting a cooling effect that is 2.5 to 4 times larger than the Maunder minimum. Zharkova’s analysis shows an 8 watts per square meter decrease in TSI (Total Solar Irradiance). A 2015 Nature study looked at 2 watts per square meter decrease causing a 0.13-degree celsius effect. A four times larger effect would be 0.5-degree celsius.

Zharkova believes the warming models are including the warming effect of increased solar activity. If she is correct there would be cooling and the warming models would be wrong.


10 posted on 12/19/2018 7:30:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: SkyDancer

Beacuse the swamp doesn’t want to be drained. Therefore, they are a danger to the security of the swamp.


11 posted on 12/19/2018 7:30:18 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a stupid woman. Someone actually pays her to write articles like this?


12 posted on 12/19/2018 7:30:32 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I would say that “Climate-Change Accepters” are much larger danger to our security! They are willing to give up our sovereignty completely to protect their nonexistent theories and what has become their religion.


13 posted on 12/19/2018 7:32:31 AM PST by Bigbrown
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She is a climate cycle denier. I want her to look me in the face and tell me the earth will NEVER have another ice age because of CO2 levels rising(man made or natural). She, like all of them are nuts, bat guano crazy.
14 posted on 12/19/2018 7:32:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is what passes for journalism now.

In a sane world, a ridiculous, vacuous, imbecilic bitch like this would be pitied.

15 posted on 12/19/2018 7:32:46 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it is such rock solid science why is the article in the Opinions section?

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16 posted on 12/19/2018 7:33:12 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mizzzzz Rubin has ZERO idea what real danger is, but her seditious ilk keep poking at the tiger . . .


17 posted on 12/19/2018 7:33:20 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I worked outside my whole life. I know climate change is real.

In the summer it was hot. But then in the winter it got really cold. And it happened every friggen year.


18 posted on 12/19/2018 7:33:30 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And people who are “a danger to our security” must be prosecuted, and imprisoned if necessary. That’s the logical next step, isn’t it?


19 posted on 12/19/2018 7:34:17 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: central_va
She is a climate cycle denier.

Perfect. I'm stealing that ...

20 posted on 12/19/2018 7:34:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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