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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (13246)6/1/2007 3:02:25 PM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (4) of 36917
 
Even the hard left is weighing in against your tactics...it's just not working.

Cockburn sounds like he is talking directly to you. ;-)

The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out
Alexander Cockburn

thenation.com



I began this series of critiques of the greenhouse fearmongers with an evocation of the papal indulgences of the Middle Ages as precursors of the "carbon credits"--ready relief for carbon sinners burdened, because all humans exhale carbon, with original sin. In the Middle Ages they burned heretics, and after reading through the hefty pile of abusive comments and supposed refutations of my initial article on global warming I'm fairly sure that the critics would be only too happy to cash in whatever carbon credits they have and torch me without further ado.

The greenhouse fearmongers explode at the first critical word, and have contrived a series of primitive rhetorical pandybats, which they flourish in retaliation. Those who disagree with their claim that anthropogenic CO2 is the cause of the small, measured increase in the average earth's surface temperature are stigmatized as "denialists," a charge that scurrilously combines an acoustic intimation of nihilism with a suggested affinity to those who insist the Holocaust never took place.
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