James Pethokoukis
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Shock! Climate change expert favors hyping global warming threat
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This bit from an interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist and climate change worrier Thomas Schelling is a stunner (bold is mine):
Well I do think that one of the difficulties is that most of the beneficiaries [of fighting climate change ] aren’t yet born. More than that: Most of the beneficiaries will be born in what we now call the developing world. By 2080 or 2100 five-sixths of the population, at least, will be in places like China, India, Indonesia, Africa and so forth. … It’s a tough sell. And probably you have to find ways to exaggerate the threat. And you can in fact find ways to make the threat serious.
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Shock! Pethokoukis didn’t get past the sixth sentence of Schelling’s reply to the first interview question.
Alot of garbage in this article, we all know Global Warming is bologey anyhow
Shock! Pethokoukis totally misrepresented the point Schelling was making in the interview and then twisted the headline to satisfy his simplistic right wing agenda.
Al Gore said in an 2006 interview with the online magazine Grist: “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous [global warming] is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”
As they say in academia, No hype = No funding! So hype away on the cause de jour Schelling — swill your champagne, eat your caviar, and congratulate yourself on a job well done! James – good work!
“Alot of garbage in this article, we all know Global Warming is bologey anyhow”
- Posted by Ian
Everyone except a massive scientific consensus, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_ opinion_on_climate_change
But what have scientists ever done for the world anyway, right?
Scientists are becomming more like statisticians. If they are on your side, they can produce whatever you want.
Everything (even the truth) has to be P.R.ed and massaged for the media to even pick up and run. Policitians do it to get their point across. So do doctors when trying to educate the public on a growing health issue (like STDs or obesity). Of course scientists are going to have to put some spin on climate change so that the uneducated masses pay attention.
This from those wonderful people who can’t predict the weather three days in advance.
“This from those wonderful people who can’t predict the weather three days in advance.”
- Posted by Bob Makin
I think you are confusing Meteorology with Climatology – two very distinct scientific disciplines. Google to find out the differences and/or read this link.
http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_78 77.html