Comments on: Hysteria and Anti-Science In Conservative Attacks on Climate Change

By: Martin Williams

Martin Williams — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:58:50 +0000

“The true hysteria comes from the right” – yes, indeed.
I’ve a thread on my global warming forum –
with some daftness, chiefly by righties

Includes assertion there have been “Nuremberg Trials” re warming; use of “jihadists” for people saying global warming is real; and notions that the “American way of life” is threatened by people who say we should do something re warming. Oh dear!

As to science: science historian Naomi Oreskes has done worthwhile piece, showing strength of body of research supporting anthropogenic warming.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:30:23 +0000

It’s the right which is distracted from the real threats, including both from terrorism and climate change. Regarding terrorism:

It was the Republicans which blocked Clinton’s attempts to go after al Qaeda.

It was the Bush administration which ignored the recommendations passed down by the Clinton administration to deal with al Qaeda.

It was Bush who ignored the pre 9/11 warnings of an attack.

It was Bush who left the job in Afghanistan unfinished and then went and attacked the wrong country.

It was Bush’s poor planning which allowed bin Laden to escape at Tora Bora.

It’s been Democrats who have advocated real measures to improve homeland security, while the Republicans have opposed them.

As for the claim of pseudo-science, the true dishonest pseudo-science comes from those who ignore the consensus of scientific thought.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:24:29 +0000

The current hysteria is a symptom of displacement, a psychological mechanism that allows one to ignore real threats like Islamic terrorism, in order to focus on imaginary phantasms like Anthropogenic Global Warming. Part of the left's denial of reality, a symptom of a larger mass psychosis infecting much of the American electorate. The left is completely delusional and dishonest on the subject of AGW and this post is typical of one of the symptoms outlined above. Deal with your dementia and don't foist your dishonest pseudo-science by committee onto mentally stable citizens smarter than you leftardos.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:02:36 +0000

While there is no debate among scientists, you certainly couldn’t tell this from the right wing news or blogs. You can always find an ocassional person whose views will vary from established views, and the right wing noise machine will always play this up to hide the fact that there is a scientific consensus on climate change. Strange that a consensus of most scientists doesn’t count for much to them, but an isolated view to the contrary is repeated as fact regardless of how weak the arguments are.

By: janet

janet — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:49:11 +0000

During one of our recent visits to conservative relatives of my husband, global climate change became a topic of discussion. These folks are hopelessly tied to FOXnews but they have a lot of respect for my husband knowing he is a prominent scientist. So they asked him–was this global warming thing real or overblown?

His response was there is no longer any real debate among respected scientists and that it is real and here and we can and should take measures. He tried to point out that what is happening is shocking and occurring sooner than scientists dreamed even a few years ago.

The devastating influence of FOX news amazes me—even supposedly smart people buy into everything they hear on that channel without question.