Comments on: Warming Up the Climate Change Denial Crowd http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:44:15 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: marob203 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985320 marob203 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:02:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985320 <p>Nah. That’s why Imhofe and his crew are going to Copenhagen(?) next month: to set the record straight. I wished they would lock their @$$e$ out. One must have huge cojones to go to a meeting of scientific experts to push religious dogma. What ticks me off is, why do they think they need to go to watch over President Obama? <a href="mailto:Dumb@$$e$." rel="nofollow">Dumb@$$e$.</a> I hope they get embarrassed in a major way.</p> Nah. That’s why Imhofe and his crew are going to Copenhagen(?) next month: to set the record straight. I wished they would lock their @$$e$ out. One must have huge cojones to go to a meeting of scientific experts to push religious dogma. What ticks me off is, why do they think they need to go to watch over President Obama? Dumb@$$e$. I hope they get embarrassed in a major way.

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985305 readerOfTeaLeaves Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:28:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985305 <blockquote><p>Perhaps Dr. Carlin would like to his apply “market externalities will save the world” theory to explain this?</p></blockquote> <p>Unbelievable!</p>

Perhaps Dr. Carlin would like to his apply “market externalities will save the world” theory to explain this?

Unbelievable!

]]> By: Knoxville http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985229 Knoxville Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:05:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985229 <p>Well, now that anyone can be a climatologist, here’s what Carlin, George Carlin, has had to say:<br /></p><blockquote> <p>“The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked…. The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We’ve been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion…. The planet will take care of itself.</p></blockquote> <p>George Carlin has a point. The only thing I take exception to is the passive construction: “The PEOPLE are fucked.”</p> <p>Maybe he should have said “We the people are fucking ourselves by polluting the planet and by being very slow to take action to correct our mistakes. We are making the planet a place that is rapidly becoming less and less hospitable us.”</p> Well, now that anyone can be a climatologist, here’s what Carlin, George Carlin, has had to say:

“The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked…. The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We’ve been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion…. The planet will take care of itself.

George Carlin has a point. The only thing I take exception to is the passive construction: “The PEOPLE are fucked.”

Maybe he should have said “We the people are fucking ourselves by polluting the planet and by being very slow to take action to correct our mistakes. We are making the planet a place that is rapidly becoming less and less hospitable us.”

]]> By: bushmeat http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985227 bushmeat Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:58:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985227 <p>The only other argument I’ve heard as to why the climate is changing is that the Sun is causing it. That the current change is due to a lessening of solar output similar to what scientists called the “little ice age” which was 1540 to 1850 A.D. If this coincided with the rise of human carbon production it’s possible that it would appear that human activity was the cause.</p> The only other argument I’ve heard as to why the climate is changing is that the Sun is causing it. That the current change is due to a lessening of solar output similar to what scientists called the “little ice age” which was 1540 to 1850 A.D. If this coincided with the rise of human carbon production it’s possible that it would appear that human activity was the cause.

]]> By: Knoxville http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985217 Knoxville Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:44:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985217 <p>So, has this economist-turned-pseudoclimatologist, Alan Carlin, been appearing lately in other forums, or just on the one-man circus act that is the Glenn Beck Program?</p> So, has this economist-turned-pseudoclimatologist, Alan Carlin, been appearing lately in other forums, or just on the one-man circus act that is the Glenn Beck Program?

]]> By: Blub http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985215 Blub Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:39:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985215 <p>looked it up. 115,000 of 2.2 million members left.</p> looked it up. 115,000 of 2.2 million members left.

]]> By: Knoxville http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985214 Knoxville Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:37:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985214 <p>My guess is that real leaders of the Christian churches don’t think entering into US political bickering is relevant to their missions.</p> My guess is that real leaders of the Christian churches don’t think entering into US political bickering is relevant to their missions.

]]> By: ezdidit http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985213 ezdidit Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:37:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985213 <p><strong>“Economist Global Warming Denier Admits Shoddy Scholarship”<br /></strong>or, </p> <p><strong>“Republicans Find Economist As Voice of GW Denial;”</strong><br /><em>admits ’shoddy scholarship’</em></p> “Economist Global Warming Denier Admits Shoddy Scholarship”
or,

“Republicans Find Economist As Voice of GW Denial;”
admits ’shoddy scholarship’

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985212 demi Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:32:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985212 <p>Yep. Peoples be like that. I’m a Methodist, actually, and sooner or later there just might be a split over the gay thing too. Oh, brother.<br /> Gots to run…Jesus will wait, but maybe not the congregation. Gotta back up my honey.</p> Yep. Peoples be like that. I’m a Methodist, actually, and sooner or later there just might be a split over the gay thing too. Oh, brother.
Gots to run…Jesus will wait, but maybe not the congregation. Gotta back up my honey.

]]> By: Blub http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985211 Blub Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:30:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/27/warming-up-the-climate-change-denial-crowd/#comment-1985211 <p>sort of. A small number of parishes - mostly in the Southeast - left the denomination but stayed within the Communion, when they created their first gay Bishop. But the more recent pro-gay reforms this year went off without any further hitch.</p> sort of. A small number of parishes – mostly in the Southeast – left the denomination but stayed within the Communion, when they created their first gay Bishop. But the more recent pro-gay reforms this year went off without any further hitch.

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