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A good little article on how climate change got to be the controversial issue it is today.
This analysis of right-wing politics and its impact on science shows how a handful of individuals have managed to obscure the truth on issues that range from the dangers of smoking to global warming. [...]
Funded by corporations and conservative foundations, these outfits exist to fight any form of state intervention or regulation of US citizens. Thus they fought, and delayed, smoking curbs in the ’70s even though medical science had made it clear the habit was a major cancer risk. And they have been battling ever since, blocking or holding back laws aimed at curbing acid rain, ozone-layer depletion, and – mostly recently – global warming.In each case the tactics are identical: discredit the science, disseminate false information, spread confusion, and promote doubt. As the authors state: “Small numbers of people can have large, negative impacts, especially if they are organised, determined and have access to power.”
…scientists’ warnings – that without action the world will get at least two degrees hotter this century – have been obscured by a small group of ideologues who believe individual liberties are more important than any other cause. Our planet may burn, millions may die, and cities such as Moscow and New York may smoulder, but at least we will be free of petty regulation and bureaucracy. It seems a stiff price to pay.
Few issues piss me off as much as this one so let me make my thoughts clear. If you are a climate change denier then regardless of what views you might hold on any number of other issues, you are undeniably a fool, a jackass, a simpleton, a moron, a dolt, an imbecile and an idiot. And if that wasn’t redundant enough for you, let me add this: you really are a stupid human being.
I’ve had enough with debating these ignoramuses on this issue. If they still don’t get it given the wealth of data, information and expert opinion available, then they obviously lack the intellectual capacity or honest conviction to ever understand. The powers that be, in the U.S. and across the world, need to understand this and just get the job done. Pass comprehensive legislation that deals with this issue in a serious manner and let the denier’s grandchildren thank you somewhere down the road.
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AMEN!!!!
I agree with the spirit of the post and some of the ideas, but we have to consider the real skepticism of science. The unfortunate fact is that both sides of the debate have used poor science and we have not had enough nonpartisan reviews and replications of results.
We have a higher slope to climb than to just point out the flaws in the climate deniers arguments. We need to look again at global warming data and ask some real hard questions of it as well. Are we relying too much of the data to be driven by results since the appearance of the industrial revolution? Is the UN organization, IPCC, any less biased in its selection of results to publish than the climate deniers? Are the climate models (on either side of the debate) as well understood as they purport?
These are just a few of the questions that must be asked and answered. We cannot rely on the methods of the deniers. We must be willing to question the global warming data as much as the deniers and do it in a free unbiased scientific manner. To do less is not science.