{"id":7702,"date":"2011-11-17T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2011-11-17T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:33:13","slug":"the-language-of-climate-combatants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Climate Combatants"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://masculinidades.org/equipo/ While I personally don’t use the term “denier” in my writing on climate issues, I’m not moved by the crocodile tears of many who claim to be offended by it. Why? Well, I could point to a few loaded, pejorative terms commonly used at popular climate skeptic websites. But to understand the hypocrisy I’m getting at, let’s go to this new Fred Singer post<\/a> at American Thinker, which starts off (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

https://chitolytic.com/chitosan-products/chitin-supply/ Global warming has re-entered public consciousness in recent days, partly because of the buzz surrounding the release of warming results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. The reaction of the https://www.munshinegroup.com/embracing-lifelong-learning/ “warmistas”<\/strong> has been jubilant, yet hilariously wrong.\u00a0 Will they ever learn?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you get the association implied here? Let me just say that as a huge Clash fan I resent this effort to despoil my memory of a treasured boyhood album<\/a>. But I digress.<\/p>\n

A few paragraphs down, Singer says something I agree with (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it has become expedient (for those who condemn CO2<\/sub>\u00a0as the cause of warming) to deride their opponents with terms like Buy Zopiclone 7.5 Mg Online “climate deniers.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://www.mytravelstudio.com/tips-for-a-rainy-holiday/ <\/strong>Alas, the self-proclaimed global warming “doubter” doesn’t see when he’s being expedient, for just two paragraphs later, we come to this (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Their hearts filled with bubbling joy and their brains befuddled, none of the Order Ativan Online warmistas<\/strong> have apparently listened to the somewhat skeptical pronouncements from Prof. Muller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In case you weren’t getting the message, a little further down, Singer writes (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

None of the https://onemillionjourney.com/goals-2024/ warmistas<\/strong> can explain why the climate hasn’t warmed in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century, while CO2<\/sub>\u00a0has been increasing rapidly.\u00a0 It’s no wonder that Herman Cain, a former math and computer science major in college, says that “man-made global warming is poppycock” (NYT, Nov. 12). He blames climate fears on “scientists who tried to concoct the science” and “were busted because they tried to manipulate the data.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, citing the accused serial sexual harassment offender<\/a>\u00a0and all-around brainiac who recently caught a bad case of brain freeze<\/a> himself, should add some intellectual heft to that argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I personally don’t use the term “denier” in my writing on climate issues, I’m not moved by the crocodile tears of many who claim to be offended by it. Why? Well, I could point to a few loaded, pejorative terms commonly used at popular climate skeptic websites. But to understand the hypocrisy I’m getting…Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2557],"tags":[835,846],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}