VinegarBob wrote:I rest my case.
Libs NEVER rest on their case, and will continue to put their irrational "thinking" on display. To wit:
The Smoking Guns...
We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
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"We've got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
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"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment
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The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the
climate models.” - Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
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The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.”
- Dr David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University
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I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al Gore, Climate Change activist
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
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The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
Daniel Botkin – evangelical emeritus professor at Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S. in art; post graduate study in English as a second language; honorary Doctor of Literature degree from the Evangelical Reformed Methodist Church