{"id":6265,"date":"2011-06-20T07:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:12:31","slug":"a-climate-convert-roils-the-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6265","title":{"rendered":"A Climate Convert Roils the Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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https://chitolytic.com/endotoxin-test/ The piece offers some excellent advice to the left and right sides of the debate, but it also contains standard conservative hyperbole about Al Gore (“He’s clearly looking to ride global warming to greater wealth and power”), the supposed climate change stalking horse \u00a0(“The Left has seized on it as an opportunity to dismantle free markets and grow government”), and a certain flawed global institution (“The UN is a systemically-corrupt, left-wing political organization”).<\/p>\n

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3. Debate, proposals and decisions about what we will do about AGW. This is the legitimately political part. It is, and will be, based on parts 1 and 2, but is distinct from them.<\/p>\n

The AGW discussions I’ve seen that get most confused are those where the moderator\/initiator has not taken care to clearly make such a division and\/or doesn’t try to persuade commenters to do the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d say that much of the acrimony in the climate debate owes to these distinctions willfully not being made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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