Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming

July 21st, 2006 by Vihar Sheth
Posted in Environment, News, Science

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Issue #173
July 20, 2006
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming
Josh Dorner, RAW Contributor

“[Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)] compares An Inconvenient Truth, which he doesn’t plan to see, to Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. ‘If you say the same lie over and over again, and particularly if you have the media’s support, people will believe it,’ Inhofe said.” — Albuquerque Tribune, 15 July 2006

Apparently, some conservative climate skeptics will stop at nothing to refute the solid science telling us that human activity is making the Earth warmer — and fast. Climate skeptics have shown their utter desperation by repeatedly playing the Nazi card and repeating their own anti-science lies ad naseum.

A Brief History of Idiocy:

20 July — Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan repeats the falsehood that there’s no scientific consensus on global warming and that in the end, we’ll have to blame the scientists if global warming turns out to be real: “I think The People will have a greater claim to blame the scientists, for refusing to be honest, for operating in cliques and holding to ideologies. For failing to be trustworthy.”14 July — The House Energy Committee releases a report that doesn’t include any science but attacks Dr. Michael Mann’s landmark 1998 global warming study for being “too peer-reviewed.”14 July — In the interest of “balanced coverage,” the Christian Science Monitor prints an attack on global warming by Julia Gorin, a “conservative comedian.”

29 May — Fox News analyst Jonathan Hoenig says, “There’s no scientific proof that global warming even exists. To be honest, it’s a bogus consensus dreamed up by Greens because they hate industry. They hate advancement. They hate technology…Greens will lead us back to the stone ages.”

28 May — Climate skeptic Bill Gray compares Gore to Hitler: “Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.”

23 May — Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at a different ExxonMobil-funded “think tank,” the National Center for Policy Analysis, compares Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels: “You don’t go see Joseph Goebbels’ films to see the truth about Nazi Germany. You don’t go see Al Gore’s films to see the truth about global warming.”

In a final salute to idiocy to round out his week, Sen. Inhofe attacked the objectivity of Associated Press science reporter Seth Borenstein and former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, one of the most trusted public figures in America. Inhofe is demanding a Fox News-style “fair and balanced” approach to global warming coverage: giving more idiots more time and space to spout anti-science.

I’ll take some “unbalanced” with a side of scientifically valid and correct any day.
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It’s me again. Holy rising oceans Batman! An Inconvenient Truth = Mein Kampf? Are you kidding? Inhofe is a loon. From a guy who says he won’t see the movie this is quite a balsy analogy. He probably hasn’t read Mein Kampf either. I wasn’t around in 1945 but I’m pretty sure the entire scientific community wasn’t duped into supporting the extermination of all the Jews because of someone lied repeatedly with the media’s support. What I do know for sure is the truth will never, ever equal hate. Shame on every Oklahoman who voted for this embarrassment, and shame on every Oklahoman who thought about voting for the other guy and didn’t show up at the polls.

Action: This is pretty simple but support sane candidates. Listen, if you don’t care for any of the people running in any particular race still get out there any vote. Being apathetic doesn’t mean that whoever is elected doesn’t represent you and won’t make decisions affecting you. I’m sure there are plenty of people in Oklahoma just shaking their heads because this crackpot represents them in the United States government. Conservatives are wrong when they say the majority of Americans support their values and positions on issues. They don’t, but the majority of voters do, and that’s all that matters at the end of the day.

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