FOX News on Gore’s testimony 10

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   Biodiversivist Posted 4:49 am
   22 Mar 2007

   The host saved her ass by interupting heras she was saying that there is no such thing as global warming.
   
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   caniscandida Posted 5:17 am
   22 Mar 2007

   "hysterical"?Will more Americans have learned about Gore's visit to Congress from Fox than from any other news source?  If so, God help us.
   The guy on the left was almost as offensive and brutal a bully as Brit Hume himself, what with such nonsense as his discrediting climate-change models, by saying that models based on 16th-century conditions cannot give us what happened in the 17th century, and his reference to solar radiation.
   The point that Easton made which Hume seemed to want his viewers to take away, is that, sure, global warming is happening, and human activity has something to do with it, but it is not important enough for us to be wasting our time talking about it.
   So, how many Americans accept that?  A lot?  Maybe even a majority?  And, if so, if Al Gore can be so easily dismissed as "hysterical," can any good come from his visit yesterday to Congress?
   
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   So are other sensitive animals!
   
   Enough is enough!
   
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   plum Posted 8:38 am
   22 Mar 2007

   plumMy answer to David's question is: It's not a question of whether Hume understands science at a basic level -- he simply doesn't want to. After all, his purpose is not to elucidate the subject for the viewers but, as caniscandida implies, to muddy the waters.
   Why else would a non-scientist scoff when Mort Kondracke admits (quite reasonably) that he doesn't know about the science but he'll ask the head honcho of the National Academies?
   That's what climate scepticism amounts to: sowing doubt. We need to think of ways to cut their knees out from under them -- and laughing at them may just do that.
   As for the demonization of Gore on Fox News, remember that 88% of Fox viewers voted for Bush in 2004. Whether you watch Fox is a better predictor of wingnuttery than whether you own a gun. These people are lost to us, so why bother to reach out to them? They obviously don't respond to rational arguments.

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   plum Posted 8:39 am
   22 Mar 2007

   Oops!Sorry, mistakenly put my pseudonym in the subject box.

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   SMLowry Posted 9:55 am
   22 Mar 2007

   video is goneI went to check it out but it's no longer available. Hmmmm... I wonder why.

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   Delay And Deny Posted 4:50 pm
   22 Mar 2007

   Rally Round the Wagons, Boys!Sorry, Grist, but it looks like mainstream America read the reports and just doesn't buy it.   Anthropomorphic Global Warming is not a fact.   The "Show Me" country of America needs some more hard evidence from people who aren't making millions of dollars promoting their "War of the Worlds" scare-theatre.
   
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   cieldumort Posted 5:31 pm
   22 Mar 2007

   "Mainstream America"?Well, if you mean by "mainstream" America to be the kind of people who are endeared to James Inhofe, I would certainly concede such a point. However, if you meant most of America, your claim fails on the face of it.
   Here is something to consider
   NEW HAVEN, Conn.--A new Yale research survey reveals a significant shift in public attitudes toward the environment and global warming. Fully 83 percent of Americans now say global warming is a "serious" problem, up from 70 percent in 2004. More Americans than ever say they have serious concerns about environmental threats, such as toxic soil and water (92 percent, up from 85 percent in 2004), deforestation (89 percent, up from 78 percent), air pollution (93 percent, up from 87 percent) and the extinction of wildlife (83 percent, up from 72 percent in 2005).
   
   http://environment.yale.edu/4467/sea_change_in_public_att ...

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   yoder Posted 10:07 pm
   22 Mar 2007

   Plum is correct...Climate change skeptics have given up on debate and are pulling a Microsoft.  When you can't compete with a winning idea or concept, just throw as much FUD into the discussion as you can to confuse and generally piss off the masses.  If I can't win, then nobody can win.  I'll take my ball and go home, NYAH!!
   
   "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!"
   
   -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

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   Benny Big Eye Posted 11:45 pm
   22 Mar 2007

   Anthropomorphic Global WarmingJabailo wrote: "Anthropomorphic [sic] Global Warming is not a fact."
   If you're going to come here and start trolling, at least know the difference between "anthropomorphic" and "anthropogenic."
   Otherwise, you just look like an ass.
   
   Benny Big Eye

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    Dawn Pillsbury Posted 2:44 am
    23 Mar 2007

    Re: Anthropomorphic climate changeNo, the textmeme troll has it right. There is no anthropomorphic climate change. Remember, it's because climate change has no face that people fail to find it threatening.
    If only Flamy McGassy was real.

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