Doonesbury Say What?
Jan. 19th, 2011 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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!
— 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!
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Date: 2011-01-19 10:11 pm (UTC)