December 12, 2007
In September 2006, the Guardian ran an article that was an excerpt from the book "HEAT, How To Stop The Planet From Burning." The article, titled The denial industry begins with "For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade."
Curiously, Tobacco becomes involved as one of the main culprits in the excerpt.
At the online publication, Gristmill, a very scary comment was posted shortly after the Guardian article. A David Roberts said, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."
Recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore Jr classifies scientists and others who don't share his view of the Earth's climate as "global warming deniers," reminiscent of the phrase, "Holocaust Deniers" invoked on skeptics of the Holocaust. This prompted the University of Colorado's Roger Pielke to chime in, "Let's be blunt. This allusion is an affront to those who suffered and died in the Holocaust. This allusion has no place in the discourse on climate change. I say this as someone fully convinced of a significant human role in the behavior of the climate system."
A May 2005 article from the Seattle PI, "Global warming? A small few non-believers say no," contains the sentence, "For more than a decade now, the climate change deniers have been in retreat, humbled by the thumping weight of scientific evidence."
More recently, unnamed "experts" are quoted at the Bali Conference as saying, "[the Kyoto Protocol]" is the world's 'last chance' to avoid disaster."
Scare mongering aside, it seems that anyone questioning the current claims of pending global destruction due to climate change is immediately labeled a "heretic," or as ones like Al Gore likes to use, "Global Warming Deniers."
There is no discussion, no alternative science, no investigations or no weather experts that advocates of man made climate change creating imminent peril for the planet will listen to. For some time now, we have been repeatedly told, "The debate's over!"
But, is it really?
In an October 2007 Wall Street Journal article, professor Daniel Botkin, president of the Center for the Study of the Environment and professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara says, "Global warming doesn't matter except to the extent that it will affect life--ours and that of all living things on Earth. And contrary to the latest news, the evidence that global warming will have serious effects on life is thin. Most evidence suggests the contrary."
In August of this year, we were informed that "Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory," by the US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.
Also in August, Newsweek contributing editor Robert Samuelson embarrassingly admitted to "a 'highly contrived' cover story about the global warming threat and the 'denial machine' that seeks to debunk it."
Facing the scorn of California Democrat Henry Waxman as he completes his 16 month "Political Interference With Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration," investigation, Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center, in reply to charges that he was told to minimize any connection between increased hurricane activity and global climate change said in an ABC Interview, "I want the record to show that no one forced me to say anything on the subject of climate change and tropical cyclones that I didn't believe at the time," adding, "Most meteorologists with knowledge of tropical cyclones think that there will be some impact from global warming on hurricanes. The debate is over how much of an impact."
In May 2007, the highly respected German Publication, Spiegel Online International ran an article titled, "GLOBAL WARMING, Not the End of the World as We Know It." The article opens with, "Despite widespread fears of a greenhouse hell, the latest computer simulations are delivering far less dramatic predictions about tomorrow's climate."
In spite of what Al Gore and his cronies claims that "the debate is over," it would appear to me that the debate is just beginning.
Lastly, if it is true that skeptics of man made Global Warming are "heretics," "deniers" or other such nefarious designations, how will they classify the following, said back in January 2007 on Earth Day, but released just this week? "While some concerns may be valid it [is] vital that the international community base its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement." Also said was, "the world needed to care for the environment but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind." Pope Benedict XVI.
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In September 2006, the Guardian ran an article that was an excerpt from the book "HEAT, How To Stop The Planet From Burning." The article, titled The denial industry begins with "For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade."
Curiously, Tobacco becomes involved as one of the main culprits in the excerpt.
At the online publication, Gristmill, a very scary comment was posted shortly after the Guardian article. A David Roberts said, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."
Recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore Jr classifies scientists and others who don't share his view of the Earth's climate as "global warming deniers," reminiscent of the phrase, "Holocaust Deniers" invoked on skeptics of the Holocaust. This prompted the University of Colorado's Roger Pielke to chime in, "Let's be blunt. This allusion is an affront to those who suffered and died in the Holocaust. This allusion has no place in the discourse on climate change. I say this as someone fully convinced of a significant human role in the behavior of the climate system."
A May 2005 article from the Seattle PI, "Global warming? A small few non-believers say no," contains the sentence, "For more than a decade now, the climate change deniers have been in retreat, humbled by the thumping weight of scientific evidence."
More recently, unnamed "experts" are quoted at the Bali Conference as saying, "[the Kyoto Protocol]" is the world's 'last chance' to avoid disaster."
Scare mongering aside, it seems that anyone questioning the current claims of pending global destruction due to climate change is immediately labeled a "heretic," or as ones like Al Gore likes to use, "Global Warming Deniers."
There is no discussion, no alternative science, no investigations or no weather experts that advocates of man made climate change creating imminent peril for the planet will listen to. For some time now, we have been repeatedly told, "The debate's over!"
But, is it really?
In an October 2007 Wall Street Journal article, professor Daniel Botkin, president of the Center for the Study of the Environment and professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara says, "Global warming doesn't matter except to the extent that it will affect life--ours and that of all living things on Earth. And contrary to the latest news, the evidence that global warming will have serious effects on life is thin. Most evidence suggests the contrary."
In August of this year, we were informed that "Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory," by the US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.
Also in August, Newsweek contributing editor Robert Samuelson embarrassingly admitted to "a 'highly contrived' cover story about the global warming threat and the 'denial machine' that seeks to debunk it."
Facing the scorn of California Democrat Henry Waxman as he completes his 16 month "Political Interference With Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration," investigation, Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center, in reply to charges that he was told to minimize any connection between increased hurricane activity and global climate change said in an ABC Interview, "I want the record to show that no one forced me to say anything on the subject of climate change and tropical cyclones that I didn't believe at the time," adding, "Most meteorologists with knowledge of tropical cyclones think that there will be some impact from global warming on hurricanes. The debate is over how much of an impact."
In May 2007, the highly respected German Publication, Spiegel Online International ran an article titled, "GLOBAL WARMING, Not the End of the World as We Know It." The article opens with, "Despite widespread fears of a greenhouse hell, the latest computer simulations are delivering far less dramatic predictions about tomorrow's climate."
In spite of what Al Gore and his cronies claims that "the debate is over," it would appear to me that the debate is just beginning.
Lastly, if it is true that skeptics of man made Global Warming are "heretics," "deniers" or other such nefarious designations, how will they classify the following, said back in January 2007 on Earth Day, but released just this week? "While some concerns may be valid it [is] vital that the international community base its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement." Also said was, "the world needed to care for the environment but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind." Pope Benedict XVI.
Track back: Thunder Run
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