Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"Global Warming? Did you catch our debate at 6:15 ET? There are smart people on both sides who cite evidence of their positions, yet come up with wildly different conclusions. So which is it -- is the Earth getting warmer or not? Please try to offer some evidence of your theory, rather than just your 'hunch.' K?"
— Fox & Friends blog

I think the big mistake that Al Gore made was referring to it as global warming rather than global climate change. I think seeing the arctic shrinking, the northwest passage reopen, the frequent calving of icebergs from the antarctic, that it's pretty much a fact. I've heard that it's only about 5% of climate scientists who don't believe in this, so I guess if you cherry-pick your audience carefully enough that you can appear to have a balanced discussion.

And on that note, I offer this web comic: http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=479

In the movie Man of the Hour, one of President Robin Williams' speech writers (Lewis Black) says: "TV scares me. It makes everything seem credible. ... If everything seems credible then nothing seems credible. You know, TV puts everybody in those boxes, side-by-side. On one side, there's this certifiable lunatic who says the Holocaust never happened. And next to him is this noted, honored historian who knows all about the Holocaust. And now, there they sit, side-by-side, they look like equals! Everything they say seems to be credible. And so, as it goes on, nothing seems credible anymore! We just stopped listening!

Comments

[silveradept]

Any excuse is a good one when it comes to saying liberals are wrong, apparently.

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

The thing that really irritates me about the whole global warming debate (and global climate change is so very much more accurate--I want to strangle the next wit who says "Gee I thought the globe was getting warmer" after a cold snap or bad snowstorm) is that it's become this all-or-nothing proposition, as though there are no other compelling reasons to cut down on pollution. Makes me crazy.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with vehicle inspections, or lack thereof. Growing up in Phoenix, I've always had to get my car inspected, except you got a few years off if you bought a brand new car. Here in New Mexico, only if you live in Albuquerque or Santa Fe do you have to get your car inspected. So people drive what I call Coal Burners all over, and they don't care even though it all is cumulative.

*sigh*