“This world is a strange madhouse. Currently, every coachman and every waiter is debating whether relativity theory is correct. Belief in this matter depends on political party affiliation.”So wrote Albert Einstein in a letter to his one time collaborator, the mathematician Marcel Grossmann in 1920.
via jossgarman.com
"As I’ve documented elsewhere, prolific climate deniers such as Ian Plimer, James Delingpole and Christopher Booker who deliberately spread untruths on climate change can be wrong 99% of the time and right for less than 1% of the time and still ‘win the argument’ because the playing field simply isn’t level."This is no a horse race, Democrats/environmentalists don't win or lose against Conservatives. It's science, not politics.
Joss Garman adds:
"It’s about environmentalists’ failure to persuade rather than the anti-scientific obscurantism that’s completely overtaken the Republican party, with financial support from large corporate interests….If I can’t convince a guy standing in a downpour that it’s raining, seems to me the dumb ass in the rain is the story, not my poor messaging.”
1 comment:
Typical – rather than engaging with the argument, let’s just write these sceptics off. Attempting to portray your opponents as mad, bad or deluded really shows up the weakness in your own argument.
Today's boogyman is "large corporate interests." I guess large corporate interests can never be right.
And Al Gore - whose advocacy, expressed through investments, partnerships, advertising, movies, lectures, books, private companies, ads, and essays, has made Al Gore fabulously wealthy, does not have any vested interests in climate change (f/k/a global warming)?
Does it mean anything that Al and the rest of the elite radical environmentalists had to change the name of their cause when the first one(global warming) turned out to be wrong? If not, why not continue to advocate against global warming?
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