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Deniers continue to deny global warming in spite of facts

post #1 of 5
6/21/08 at 1:50pm
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It's noteworthy that USA today published this story on the govt's latest report on global warming. But geez, there's a lot of denial in the comments.

I honestly can't understand the mindset behind global climate change denial. I mean, even if it were all bs, wouldn't it be worth making changes just in the off-chance that all the scientific documentation and leading hypotheses are RIGHT? The only entities with anything to lose, and therefore a reason to deny, are big oil and coal and yet I think only a handful of the comments on the USA today piece are paid shills. A lot of them are real people. Mystifying.
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post #2 of 5
6/21/08 at 2:25pm
The problem is that the very rich, who are unfortunately also the decision-makers here, believe (falsely) that they can escape any natural disaster and that it won't affect their lifestyle.
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post #3 of 5
6/21/08 at 2:31pm
There's a lot of dismally educated economists who feel their "training" entitles them to "question" climate change by applying social science methods to physical reality. There's also a lot of people who think every argument is a "biased opinion" and that it's a legitimate tactic to side with which ever "opinion" you like better. For example, I was reading perezhilton's celebrity gossip blog, which is written at a voguely populist level, and inbetween self-righteous screeds and mawkish musical recommendations, he ponders over which "biased" side of the climate change debate is "least biased" — "majority"-speak for "correct". This logic, of course, does not apply to scientific discoveries concerning homosexuality.

[I get the feeling Hilton and his readers are by-and-large conservative, and I think he panders to this.]
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post #4 of 5
6/21/08 at 5:34pm
Somebody buy Al Gore a Zeppelin

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....NTPAGECAROUSEL

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The Tennessean:

"There were people who wanted to make sure this event didn't go off as planned, and I'm very proud it was able to go off despite the change of venue," said Drew Johnson, president of Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a libertarian think tank that partnered in the launch. "There have been a lot of attempts to quiet us in our findings about global warming alarmism so it's not surprising it would happen to this event.''
I hate this fucking state sometimes.
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post #5 of 5
6/23/08 at 2:29pm
In a year or two global warming will be all but dead issues, as Fuel cost and food shortages will eclipse it. As I have been saying for a couple of years now. There are just more global problems which are tacking effect before global warming will, to make Global warming a real issue. Luckily taking care of the fuel cost problem will most likely take care of global warming.
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