Chart: How the Climate Change Deniers Won

[Mika]

Chart: How the Climate Change Deniers Won
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/09/chart-climate-change-spin-cycle

[lapfog_1]

1. they didn't "win" anything

This isn't like a fight for LGBT rights, or the rights of African Americans. This is science and more like gravity or the value of PI.

They can ignore it all they want, and stop the government from issuing regulations to either stop it or mitigate the effects.

But droughts and famine and floods will be more frequent and severe, the great extinction event will continue and accelerate. The oceans will rise. And we will pay huge amounts of money to try and fix it in 30 years.

We already are paying for it...

All so they could have another decade or so of fossil fuel profits.

[Mika]

2. I agree. I think the term "won" was over the political machinations and the results. eom

[doc03]

3. Here is a good one. A Republican told me the other day he can prove climate change is

not caused by CO2. He told me he had a farm and you could go in the barn when it was zero outside and the water wouldn't be frozen.
His proof (body heat) is causing climate change not CO2. So there it is the only way to stop climate change would be to exterminate all life. He seemed to agree there is climate change but he proved that there is nothing we can do about it.

[BillZBubb]

4. You told him he is an imbecile, right?

[doc03]

5. It is pointless to argue with him he has proven his point and his mind can't be changed. He

really isn't a bad guy. But if you talk to him for a few minutes he somehow has to make some kind of comment about Obama. I just avoid him or tell him I have to go when he starts politics. I suppose he heard that from some idiot on Fox or the radio.