Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Hat tip to Dallas (who has blogged extensively on the climate issue) for sending along a link to this piece by Deroy Murdock. If only Ellen Goodman's absurd comparison of global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers were in the category of famous last words, but I fear we're going to be fighting the battle against the hysteria for a long time to come: Cold discomfort: Globe not warming
...As Earth faces global cooling, both troglodyte right-wingers and lachrymose left-wingers find Albert Gore's simmering-planet hypothesis increasingly hilarious:
"In terms of (global warming's) capacity to cause the human species harm, I don't think it makes it into the top 10," Dr. Robert Giegengack, former chairman of University of Pennsylvania's Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, told the Pennsylvania Gazette. Giegengack voted for Gore in 2000, and says he likely would again.
Commentator Harold Ambler declared Jan. 3 on HuffingtonPost.com that he voted for Barack Obama "for a thousand times a thousand reasons." He added that Gore "owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming." He called Gore's assertion that "the science is in" on this issue "the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of mankind."
"It is a tribute to the scientific ignorance of politicians and journalists that they keep regurgitating the nonsense about human-caused global warming," veteran left-wing commentator and Nation magazine columnist Alexander Cockburn wrote. "The greenhouse fearmongers rely on unverified, crudely oversimplified models to finger mankind's sinful contribution - and carbon trafficking, just like the old indulgences, is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism and greed."...
Mark your calendars. This is the first, and hopefully the last, time this blog will approvingly quote Alexander Cockburn.
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Here's a question. We are now seeing the delightful phenomenon of American liberals denouncing global-warming theories. Is it coincidence that this started at roughly the same time as the new Obama Administration?
Or is it now somehow safer to denounce global warming theories, without fear that you'll be branded a neocon?
Just wondering...
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