Comments on: A Perfect Example of Global Warming Hysteria http://www.bloggernews.net/13398 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Francesca http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-16228 Francesca Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:30:48 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-16228 Ms. Loughry, It's wonderful that you have so much compassion. But I think the example of the "vanishing" island and "homelessness" was used by this author as an example of how environmentalists grossly distort and deform issues such as these, in order to create emotional propaganda. A Goal this author has assomplished well. It's important that people become informed about environmental realities, and think for themselves, rather than twisted into fear and indoctrinated by environmental correctness. While writing this, I actually had to get up three times to change my TV channel because I just couldn't take all these priviliged jet setting celebrities talking about their oscar gift of "carbon offsetting." Ms. Loughry, It’s wonderful that you have so much compassion. But I think the example of the “vanishing” island and “homelessness” was used by this author as an example of how environmentalists grossly distort and deform issues such as these, in order to create emotional propaganda. A Goal this author has assomplished well. It’s important that people become informed about environmental realities, and think for themselves, rather than twisted into fear and indoctrinated by environmental correctness.

While writing this, I actually had to get up three times to change my TV channel because I just couldn’t take all these priviliged jet setting celebrities talking about their oscar gift of “carbon offsetting.”

]]> By: Francesca http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-16224 Francesca Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:14:07 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-16224 As global warming propaganda cranks up, I can't check out of Whole Foods, for eg, without staring out the windows of elementary school painted measages of "fight climate change" and images of wind turbine messiahs (which incidentally are slicing up endangered species on the east coast whose migratory path they cross). Indoctrination usually starts young. Your essay is a blessing among all the junk science and fear mongering. Your critical commentators here seem to not really be responding to what you say, but prevaricating and injecting emotionalism. Mr. Seward, for example, we don't know that humans are responsible for the increase in CO2. Just as there is no real scientific consensus of global warming. Such is kind of like the Republicans saying there were WMDs in Iraq. (Before you attack me politically know that I depsise both parties.) Before you say that it's only oil co.s that are sceptical, Shell and BP are some of the biggest contributors to global warming activism. What we do know is that the world has been getting warmer since the beginning of recorded time. For example the medeival period was actually the warmest. Moreover anyone who remembers the '70s knows that magazines of that era such as Time ran panicked warnings about a coming 2nd Ice Age. Can you say fad? Keep up the good work. I hate the scare mongering my generation is manipulated by. And don't get me wrong this IS about fearmongering and the subsequent control over the populace that engenders. The biggest irony is how facist environmental policies-i.e. the ones that citizens like you and me didn't get to vote on, actually do much real damage to the environment and people. For example the aditives in the gasoline that were supposed to make fuel burn cleaner that now pollute our water supplies, forcing us to use flourescent bulbs, which, unlike incandescents, contain mercury and can't be safely recycled or thrown away. Or now, bans on plastic bags so more trees will be cut down. This is really all about control and the erosion of individual rights. As global warming propaganda cranks up, I can’t check out of Whole Foods, for eg, without staring out the windows of elementary school painted measages of “fight climate change” and images of wind turbine messiahs (which incidentally are slicing up endangered species on the east coast whose migratory path they cross). Indoctrination usually starts young. Your essay is a blessing among all the junk science and fear mongering.

Your critical commentators here seem to not really be responding to what you say, but prevaricating and injecting emotionalism. Mr. Seward, for example, we don’t know that humans are responsible for the increase in CO2. Just as there is no real scientific consensus of global warming. Such is kind of like the Republicans saying there were WMDs in Iraq. (Before you attack me politically know that I depsise both parties.) Before you say that it’s only oil co.s that are sceptical, Shell and BP are some of the biggest contributors to global warming activism. What we do know is that the world has been getting warmer since the beginning of recorded time. For example the medeival period was actually the warmest. Moreover anyone who remembers the ’70s knows that magazines of that era such as Time ran panicked warnings about a coming 2nd Ice Age. Can you say fad?

Keep up the good work. I hate the scare mongering my generation is manipulated by. And don’t get me wrong this IS about fearmongering and the subsequent control over the populace that engenders. The biggest irony is how facist environmental policies-i.e. the ones that citizens like you and me didn’t get to vote on, actually do much real damage to the environment and people. For example the aditives in the gasoline that were supposed to make fuel burn cleaner that now pollute our water supplies, forcing us to use flourescent bulbs, which, unlike incandescents, contain mercury and can’t be safely recycled or thrown away. Or now, bans on plastic bags so more trees will be cut down. This is really all about control and the erosion of individual rights.

]]> By: tozerfan http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-1070 tozerfan Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:22:35 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-1070 Hi there, You've noticed in others a misrepresentation of the whole truth which is fine. However, you seemed to overly downplay the situation in the 'homeless' part of your article. Do you really mean to portray the situation as being synonymous with a person in a normal situation, who has 8 years to move? Do you honestly think, if people know the home will be under water in 8 years, that these homes will sell? And if so, for anything near what it would cost to purchase a new home? I think you're missing a key factor here. In His grace, Korey Loughry P.S. I am a Christian - Youth & Outreach Director at a church in Kent, Ohio. - politically conservative in general Hi there,

You’ve noticed in others a misrepresentation of the whole truth which is fine. However, you seemed to overly downplay the situation in the ‘homeless’ part of your article. Do you really mean to portray the situation as being synonymous with a person in a normal situation, who has 8 years to move? Do you honestly think, if people know the home will be under water in 8 years, that these homes will sell? And if so, for anything near what it would cost to purchase a new home? I think you’re missing a key factor here.

In His grace,
Korey Loughry

P.S. I am a Christian - Youth & Outreach Director at a church in Kent, Ohio. - politically conservative in general

]]> By: michaelseward http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-1020 michaelseward Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:04:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13398#comment-1020 This is the most cold-hearted, cynical and ignorant expressions of anti-scientific indignation I have ever read. Because global warming is a slow moving process, Warner Todd Huston has no sympathy for the victims. Because a handful of professional global warming skeptics distort and misrepresent the science, Mr. Huston is sure that humans have no responsibility for global warming. Climate has always changed. That tells us nothing about the causes of current global wamring. Scientific research does tell us. We know that all of the increase in greenhouse gases are of human origin, and that greenhouse gases measurably warm the climate. Rising sea levels are accelarating, in line with expectations from oncreasing levels of greenhouse gases. Finding humor in the misfortunes of these island dweellling people, whose lives have been forever changed by global warming, is inexplicably cruel. This is the most cold-hearted, cynical and ignorant expressions of anti-scientific indignation I have ever read. Because global warming is a slow moving process, Warner Todd Huston has no sympathy for the victims. Because a handful of professional global warming skeptics distort and misrepresent the science, Mr. Huston is sure that humans have no responsibility for global warming. Climate has always changed. That tells us nothing about the causes of current global wamring. Scientific research does tell us. We know that all of the increase in greenhouse gases are of human origin, and that greenhouse gases measurably warm the climate. Rising sea levels are accelarating, in line with expectations from oncreasing levels of greenhouse gases. Finding humor in the misfortunes of these island dweellling people, whose lives have been forever changed by global warming, is inexplicably cruel.

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