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With Hollywood and uber-left media obsessed with global warming, we've seen and heard Al Gore until it's almost sickening, so it was rather surprising to see this column by the Harvard Crimson's editorial page editor poking fun at the global-warmist-in-chief ~
And ICECAP published this article by John Coleman, founder of the weather channel, calling global warming the greatest scam in history.....Enjoy..
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’ | NewsBusters.org (http://media.newsbusters.org/stories/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history.html?q=blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history - broken link)
Nobody is immune to hypocrisy, I see it everyday. All we need to do is confront them about it and berate them all for their hypocrisy! We'll start with all the movie stars since they see to come out of the woodwork during elections and national issues.
Ad hominem tu quoque. Yes Gore lives a rather lavish lifestyle, but then so does your average suburbanite compared to the rest of the world. It doesn't negate the merit of his case on Global Warming. Again, it is just the ad hominem tu quoque fallacy in action.
Ad hominem tu quoque. Yes Gore lives a rather lavish lifestyle, but then so does your average suburbanite compared to the rest of the world. It doesn't negate the merit of his case on Global Warming. Again, it is just the ad hominem tu quoque fallacy in action.
The Harvard article is an opinion piece that doesn't debunk anything. And as for the other link, I am highly suspicious of the John Coleman article. I've seen him in action in both Chicago and San Diego as a TV meteorologist for many years. The writing style is nothing like his personality and the misspellings (a pet peeve of mine that utterly diminishes any web page's believability) make it suspicious.
I do know that energy companies hired people to contradict any evidence that human actions (especially those related to energy usage) would have any effect on the long-term environment, global warming in particular. Yet, I'm supposed to believe that these companies with all their power and money are afraid of a rag tag group of loosely organized scientists? In any situation, you gotta put your money on the ones WITHOUT all the lawyers, spin doctors, and moolah. If enough scientists are finding things out independently and then discovering trends quite by accident, I'd much rather side with their view of things than ever trust my future or my children's future on the misinformation paid for by some trillionaire oil barons.
Whatever the outcome, human beings are the worst thing that's ever happened to this planet. Without serious changes, Earth's viability will terminate. But, if you don't believe you have any impact at all on the environment and the sky can't possibly fall, go ahead, throw another cigarette into the street, or another plastic cup into the trash. It's all meaningless, right?
Ad hominem tu quoque. Yes Gore lives a rather lavish lifestyle, but then so does your average suburbanite compared to the rest of the world. It doesn't negate the merit of his case on Global Warming. Again, it is just the ad hominem tu quoque fallacy in action.
Yes, but the average suburbanite isn't out there throwing reduction of carbon footprints in our face....
It does HIGHLY negate his merits ~ he's living a lifestyle that he preaches the rest of us Should NOT live.
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