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• Wednesday, January 14, 2009 08:13 AM

  Global Warming and the wingnut victim card

  So RWOLFTX plays the "I'm a wingnut and I'm oppressed" game:

  "Global warming...or now rephrased as climate change...is the new religion of the left. And if one even suggests there maybe things to debate regarding the subject...you are shouted down and impugned. So much for the tolerant, educated, wise, sophisticated and enlightened left."

  Maybe if wingnuts didn't say stupid things like:

  "Alaska Rising

  'Palin's Revenge' = the current frigid front from the North. Palin to the lower 48...."freeze, baby, freeze!" By the way, how DOES that logic work when people claim the cold wave is a symptom of global warming??? Liberals have gotten unhinged from their own inborn intuition (i.e. common sense.)"

  -- NewHavenette

  No NewHavenette, this means that the sun has been eaten by the war god and you need to sacrifice another goat.

  Or the "Hey Man, it's natural" argument:

  "For informed skepticism about the Warmist faith, talk to any geologist. They tell us that the climate has been continually changing, and massively, for the entire four billion years of Earth's history. Comparatively little of this period has been affected by human industry of any sort."

  -- agore

  I, for one, don't care that it was warmer and colder in the days of the dinosaurs as the continents moved around and the chemistry of the earth and atmosphere changed over thousands and millions of years. There weren't any people then. I care that massive change is happening to my world over a few decades. This change has a cost. Human civilizations and food supplies are tuned to the water, soil, vegetation and weather patterns we have now. If the American West sees a 20% drop in rainfall as expected, we will pay the price. The dust bowl came from an 8% drop for 3 years, 20% is huge. Similarly flooding and drought mean privation, death and war for millions of people around the world. We can reduce those costs by acting rationally now.

  —bcwbcw Read bcwbcw's other letters
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