Comments on: Note to the Media — The Science of Climate Change is NOT a Horserace

By: Brooke

Brooke — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:11:27 +0000

LOL, a.

By: a.price

a.price — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:53:27 +0000

caused by CFCs “christian fundamentalist conservatives”

By: J.Stewart

J.Stewart — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:14:41 +0000

I see the memory hole has reopened

By: anon2

anon2 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:41:41 +0000

Fascinating that the republicans who supported reducing carbon emmissions and protecting the planet are now fleeing in droves from environmental protection and cap and trade. Pity. The purging of the GOP is a purging of the soul, based on a continuation of immoral and destructive policies. They have no courage and no shame.

By: Frieda Berryhill

Frieda Berryhill — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:46:57 +0000

The issue of Global Warming is being used as a political football Sadly, special interests seem to muddy the waters
Under the current Kyoto Protocol, nuclear energy is rightly excluded from the possible solutions available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the nuclear industry, in collaboration with certain countries, is pushing for this dangerous and polluting technology to be included in the next climate agreement as a “clean” technology.

The nuclear industry would then be able to take advantage of significant public investments… at the expense of real solutions! Such disingenuous strategy would mean losing the fight against climate change and promoting the global expansion of the nuclear industry, with its associated risks.

The front end and the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle is extremly polluting, yet they quickly latched on to embrace Global Warming to advance the industry.

By: Nancy Willling

Nancy Willling — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:53:41 +0000

This is another Media Matters post but one that directly rebuts the loud-mouthed know-nothings like George Will and the RNC talking points stuck in G Rex’ mouth.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200911300003

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:09:31 +0000

Sorry, GRex — the amount of work on the anthropomorphic aspect is pretty conclusive and yet here you are still not producing any that would countermand that. The scientists in East Anglia are but just a few of the huge numbers of people working on these questions all over the world. A few cherry-picked emails is not enough to change the settled science.

But I will tell you that if you are going to get about actually providing real proof that the science is actually wrong, your first step is going to be figuring out what “cherry-picked” means.

By: A. price

A. price — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:06:33 +0000

John Stewart is talking about all this now. it is a shame scientists used right wing tricks. i belive we ARE having an effect on the environment. sadly this will give ammo to the deniers and will probably set us back.

By: G Rex

G Rex — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:00:15 +0000

The burden of proof, if it means crippling our economy beyond repair, lies with those who wish to prove that anthropomorphic (that’s manmade, for those of you who attended Delaware public schools) global warming is an indisputable fact, and at the moment AGW is a proven fabrication, thanks to the hacked e-mails of the pwned scientists.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:50:58 +0000

Cassandra is spot on. The burden of proof is on the deniers. Right now they have cherry-picking and out-of-context quotes + a big media platform. I’m not sure why our media wants to drink the rightwing kool-aid but they do.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:47:14 +0000

I don’t have to prove anything, only reveal that the global warming proponents are liars and frauds.

And here is where we see that these people won’t even acknowledge the science much less do the heavy lifting to actually DO any that might support their ideologies. You can pretend all you want that there are not cadres of scientists out there contributing to what we know about climate change all over the world, people doing astonishing work. Because what you can’t mask is that there isn’t a single denier who has gotten himself a lab, done the field work, produced a model or just plain gotten off of his ass to get any data to support his position.

So in that, you people are frauds — as you ever have been. Looking to the business of the soft bigotry of low expectations to let you slide by with the latest bamboozlements.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:41:14 +0000

“your side’s research, experimentation, modeling and data is proven to be based on fiction.”

This is quite a distance from what the emails actually show. You reveal nothing but your ignorance by repeating it over and over, as if that makes it truer.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:38:22 +0000

Gore had his ass handed to him by GWB? LOL! Al Gore has higher favorability in the U.S. than Bush. Gore actually won the election, Bush won the Supreme Court (thanks daddy!).

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:36:08 +0000

Absolute must read from Media Matters.

By: G Rex

G Rex — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:17:04 +0000

“You’ll note that he locates all of his issues with the science with Al Gore.”

Yes, because Al Gore, having had his ass handed to him by GWB, now seeks to redeem himself and profit from global warming as a cottage industry. Buy my carbon credits! Fraud and loser.