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AverageJoe90

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16. "Where were you when they told us the world as we know it is over?" Not the impression I got, TBH...
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 07:57 PM
Nov 2013

Same thing also goes for his claim that, "In fact, the totality of the draft makes it clear that we’ve gone too far for too long to avoid the dire consequences of man made climate change.", which isn't, btw actually supported by any evidence, including what comes from the IPCC.

However, though, he does manage to make some good points, and this is perhaps the best one:

The responsibility for the calamities awaiting us needs to be clearly assigned. When you hear pundits talk about how we’re all responsible, that represents a misinformed opinion or propaganda by the elites that enabled this most dismal future. The failure to reach consensus until the apparent point of no return required deliberate denial of the facts as they emerged. The climate change deniers who argue from no scientific basis other than the title of scientist somewhere receive vast support from those who have no desire to clean up cars, factories, toxic waste production, etc. The media that claims that there are two sides to every issue are in the service of the financial and political elite that can only imagine a world with shrinking resources and wealth. Through their lack of imagination, denial, and negligence, they’ve made their vision come true. It’s their fault.


I would add, too, that climate doomsayers also share some of the responsibility as well, in recent years; constant predictions of gloom-and-doom have turned many who would have otherwise been receptive to the science, off from it, and some of them may be hard to recover.

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