{"id":8336,"date":"2012-03-15T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2012-03-15T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:00:56","slug":"why-the-climate-debate-is-on-a-road-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=8336","title":{"rendered":"Why the Climate Debate is on a Road to Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, when Rick Perry mania was cresting and he was spouting nonsense about climate science and evolution, I said this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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https://www.secpeinvestments.com/contact/ It now appears that some well known climate contrarians are coming to this conclusion, too. In the American Thinker (which is no climate science friendly precinct), Fred Singer recently penned an essay<\/a> titled,<\/p>\n

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Wait, did he just say climate deniers? And he repeats it a bunch of times in the piece! I thought that term was verboten in the climate skeptic universe? What’s going on here?<\/p>\n

http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536 It seems that Singer wants to put some distance between him and the crazies (he identifies two different groups of “deniers”). Interestingly, he sees only one position on the other side of the spectrum–the “warmista,” who has “fixed views about apocalyptic man-made global warming.” True, the climate doomer is the public face of the climate campaign, but it is by no means the only position in the \u00a0climate consensus universe.<\/p>\n

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https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/ Well, so long as climate “deniers” and doomers remain the de facto public representatives of the climate debate, their mutual antagonism and contempt will continue to shrink the space for rational discourse, and very little will be accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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