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Author Topic:   Weather Channel founder calls Global Warming "a scam."
Omnivorous
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Message 15 of 124 (434667)
11-16-2007 7:27 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by Hyroglyphx
11-16-2007 6:11 PM


Deny now, pay later
NJ writes:
The way I see it is that we have a lot of hard talkers with not a lot of follow through.
Where do you see that, NJ, and how did you measure it?
How about the loudest put their money where their mouth is and get rid of their car, get rid of plastics, don't use electricity, etc, etc...
How about we track the loudest global warming deniers and charge them with the expense of correcting the problem when it becomes too severe to deny?
Energy companies, industrialists, conservatives who would rather shoot the messengers than actually consider the evidence with an open mind: Let's just keep track of who's talking that particular talk.
Later, we can make them pay to correct the consequences of their actions. As a simple matter of responsibility, they should accept the burden of their error once it becomes apparent.
You'll do that, won't you, NJ? I'm sure your kids would expect it of you--simple matter of honor, really, once your opposition to corrective measures now has helped to muck up their future.

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Omnivorous
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Message 19 of 124 (434702)
11-16-2007 10:27 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Hyroglyphx
11-16-2007 9:15 PM


Tomorrow will be relatively bright with increasing darkness later.
NJ in reply to Crash writes:
It's not so surprising that he offers no evidence besides "I'm important; you should trust me. Besides I totally talked to some guys and read some papers."
Who says he hasn't? This is from a news source, however, they did provide a link to ICECAP.
I say he hasn't cited any evidence, NJ. He offered no evidence.
A link to a right-wing, "individual investor" (just try to find out who those folks are) funded web site is not evidence.
"I read dozens of scientific papers" is a pathetic citation, don't you think? Of course, maybe I missed the evidence he cited--could you point some out?
He's a TV weatherman, specializing in describing local weather patterns (in San Diego!) on the scale of a few days to a week. He founded The Weather Channel in 1983 and ran it for one year before the investors took it away.
Being a weatherman is a fine profession, I'm sure--but depending on one for climate science is like having eye surgery performed by an optometrist.
Sadly, his primary claim to fame will now be as a nut job. Did you read his rant?
Dastardly scientists are on the take?
A TV weatherman says we can ignore the consensus of thousands of scientists because they're all being paid off, and you think that is a rational, scientific refutation of global warming?
Hoo boy. Get out the foil caps, folks.

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