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Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"
Forrest Kyle writes "A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has received multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. '"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor. "I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal." Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...] recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."'"
whoever modded me down for writing the truth can suck my balls.
Seriously? It does nothing of the sort. If I took everything I read at face value and had the world-view of a 5 year old, maybe. But the stark reality is that man made global warming is real, just as gravity and evolution. But conspiracy theorists and ultra-conservatives throw in their two cents to keep people in a constant state of re-evaluation of the facts. They imply there is dissent where there is none.
The only questions regarding man made global warming are how severe the effects will be, and how we can change our contribution to it with behavioral and scientific resolutions. I used to think it was just a cycle at first, and then I say the overwhelming scientific consensus.
Fact: It's going to be 69 degrees in New York City before the second week in March. That's absurdly early for that kind of weather. And if I had the "scientific" mind of some of these critics, I'd look in the Almanac and see that the weather has spiked like this before in March. What I'd leave out is the FREQUENCY at which this is occurring. It's not isolated incidents or simple deviation from the average.
"Politicians find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the people."
Really, that's very odd. Because I see a lot of people claiming that this has become an emotional issue, and I see a lot of people who deny anthropogenic global climate change (not skeptics, but outright deniers) who become very emotional about the issue. In fact, the deniers are the only ones I have seen become emotional, all the while they are claiming it is others that are emotional. Classic case of projection. Governments and big business do everything they can to repress good science and cloud the issue with emotions, and then claim the other side is repressing and clouding the issue.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Only to someone who's looking for such an infraction. The word denier is very apt. They deny the truth. However, for sake of argument, let's just agree to call them pseudo-skeptics. True skeptics are actually interested in the truth and not in reinforcing their preconceived notions or trying to sound smart.
(Although I'll agree that there are some environmentalists who will get quite bent out of shape. The less you actually know about the topic the more likely you are to resort to anger. That's why it is much more common on the pseudo-skeptic side of the aisle. You know, things like claiming that the word "denier" is a holocaust reference. I'm just sayin'...)
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
My point is the fact that there's ANY kind of public discourse of science vs. fairy tales is absolutely absurd. Some of the public discussions coming out of the US sound like they should be coming out of a country like Afghanistan... not from the country that recently used to be the world leader in all kinds of scientific research.
I don't respond to AC's.
You can't teach people with no brains, but you can fuck them. So, open your mouth and swallow some more jizz, you dum cum slut!
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
You want references? A gallon of cum up your nose says you're a great fuck, and I'll tell anybody. There's your reference, whore. You're too ignorant to teach, but you're wonderful to assrape.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Eat a bowl of cock.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!