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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNBC’s climate-denying ‘expert’: Carbon is demonized ‘just like the poor Jews under Hitler’
By David Edwards
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 14:05 EDT
A Princeton professor who CBNC billed as an industry expert on the climate said this week that scientists were demonizing carbon dioxide like the poor Jews under Hitler in order to perpetrate a global warming hoax.
During a Monday interview on the cable business channel, professor William Happer asserted that all climate models which showed the Earth getting warmer were wrong, and compared his fight against the scientific community to Galileos imprisonment for insisting that the Earth was round.
CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin pointed out that he had a problem with Happer being presented as an expert because the professor did not believe in climate change at all.
Just a minute! Happer interrupted. I believe in climate change. Shut up!
Sorkin reminded the professor that he had compared climate change to the Holocaust in 2009.
Are you suggesting that when you made that comment that climatologists and climate scientists are the equivalent of Hitler and Nazis? Sorkin wondered.
You know, I get called a denier, and anyone who objects to all of the hype gets called denier, Happer opined. Thats supposed to make me a Holocaust denier. You know, Im getting tired of that.
The comment that I made was, the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler, he added. Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews.
Watch the video below from CNBCs Squawk Box, broadcast July 15, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/15/cnbcs-climate-denying-expert-carbon-is-demonized-just-like-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)ananda
(28,858 posts)That is sad.
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)There's always a Hitler angle. They love him so.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Classy. A sign of a true propaganda arm. There is no low they won't stoop to. I imagine some Austrian School guys are next, followed by some gold bugs and birfers.
thucythucy
(8,047 posts)off to be gassed.
Really, is this about the most stupid Holocaust analogy ever?
Johonny
(20,840 posts)He's an atomic physicist that is highly skilled in convincing himself fantasy is reality but there is no need to argue with him. If he had a good case to make he'd do it in the science literature and not the editorials of the Wall street Journal.