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How the fossil fuel industry got the media to think climate change was debatable
The Washington Post ^ | January 10, 2019 | By Amy Westervelt (D-WaPo)

Posted on 01/10/2019 1:02:09 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the very first lie out of the bag is:

Her implication that opponents of the Global Warming Scam Complex deny that “Climate Change” exists. Does anyone actually dispute that climates change all the time, and have been doing so since the formation of the atmosphere?

What I’d like to hear is her proof that the incredibly expensive remedies, taxes, carbon trading schemes, etc., would have any meaningful impact on the various climates. It would be fun because there is no such proof. Will it work if China opens new coal-fired power plants every few days? What is someone/everyone cheats? Who or what will regulate the activities of everyone on the entire globe? Oops—that’s the real purpose.


21 posted on 01/10/2019 2:40:07 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Amy Westervelt is an audio and print reporter who covers climate and gender, and sometimes the intersection of the two."

Who knew?

22 posted on 01/10/2019 2:58:01 PM PST by steelyourfaith (MAGA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A nicely chilled bottle of 2016 "Tears Of Our Enemies".


23 posted on 01/10/2019 3:15:56 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Leaning Right
No one expects the Warmer Inquisition!


24 posted on 01/10/2019 3:18:01 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: an amused spectator

Well played sir!


25 posted on 01/10/2019 3:20:01 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat; editor-surveyor; NobleFree; outofsalt; steelyourfaith; Chewbarkah
See my post #23 for a delicious draught of The Tears Of Our Enemies.
26 posted on 01/10/2019 3:23:41 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most of the Lefty Twitter “journalists” are too arrogant to delete their old tweets. :-)


27 posted on 01/10/2019 3:24:59 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it’s “not debatable”, it’s not science.

If it’s “settled”, it’s not science.


28 posted on 01/10/2019 3:32:56 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Those in the Washington Post’s immediate orbit are about to get a foot of global warming!


29 posted on 01/10/2019 3:44:04 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because it is debatable


30 posted on 01/10/2019 3:45:30 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Those in the Washington Post’s immediate orbit are about to get a foot of global warming!

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

31 posted on 01/10/2019 4:04:33 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
. Very crafty.

While print outlets aren’t perfect, TV news has lagged further behind on climate, often presenting climate contrarians as an equal and opposite balance to climate scientists. In coverage of the national climate assessment, for example, multiple cable news shows featured both climate scientists and climate deniers, as though the two are simply opposite sides of a debate.

"Presenting climate contrarians as an equal and opposite balance to climate scientists?" Climate Change must have affect their imagination. From what I see climate contrarians are hardly allowed to present any equal and opposite balance to climate "scientists," relegating opposition mainly to a few web sites.

32 posted on 01/10/2019 4:41:28 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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