Sarah Palin: Climate Change Is This Century’s Eugenics
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Source: Salon.com-three hours ago
The claim comes in a new video, which Palin posted to her Facebook page. It begins with standard-fare climate denial (and denial of being a climate denier): No convincing scientific evidence, the climate has always been changing, etc., etc. Not even worth mentioning. Still probably better off ignored, were it not for Palins claim that the man-made climate change con job is comparable to eugenics. In her words:
More people are waking up to the global warming con, Climate change is to this century what eugenics was to the last century. Its hysteria and a lot of its junk science. And when its as discredited as eugenics, you know a lot of people are going to look very foolish and heartless."
Thats right. Climate change, which 97 percent of climate scientists agree is happening as the result of human activity, is just like eugenics, the racist, Nazi-affiliated, pseudo-scientific 20th century movement that even in its day, many people saw
[as] a dubious discipline, riddled with inconsistencies.
The latest voice of reason Palin cites on all this is Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman, who, in fact, has been using his perceived prestige (the man is not a climate scientist) to spread the idea that climate change is a scam since 2007. Like Palin, presumably, Coleman has bemoaned the difficulty of getting the media to pay attention to his fringe claims (although last night he got Fox News Megyn Kelly to take the bait).
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/10/28/sarah_palin_climate_change_is_this_centurys_eugenics/
jalan48
(13,859 posts)The real question is why someone like Sarah Palin even gets air time.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)and donations etc. eventuallly she is going to go off the deep end
gordianot
(15,237 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Oh boy!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I had not heard that one before!
longship
(40,416 posts)I can't take credit, but here it is...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025708952
I think it's dead on wonderful.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)it is worse than ebola.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)species from the earth at a rate of 10,000 - 100,000 per year.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/
Way to Go Sarah. In her twisted warped DirectV logic she makes a full circle.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Supposedly, he was not too bad at short range forecasts, but he has not studied climate, just weather.
Palin should not be consulted about any topic other than methods of scamming money...
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Give her a parachute and let her annoy ISIS for a change.
hlthe2b
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