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The new environmental activist tactic - censorship
Heating up: Climate change advocates try to silence Krauthammer
By Howard Kurtz Published February 24, 2014FoxNews.com Charles Krauthammer says it right up front in his Washington Post column: “I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier.” He does, however, challenge the notion that the science on climate change is settled and says those who insist otherwise are engaged in “a crude attempt to silence critics and delegitimize debate.” How ironic, then, that some environmental activists launched a petition urging the Post not to publish Krauthammer’s column on Friday. Their response to opinions they disagree with is to suppress the speech. Brad Johnson (@ClimateBrad), the editor of HillHeat.com and a former Think Progress staffer, boasted on Twitter that 110,000 people had urged the newspaper “to stop publishing climate lies” like the Krauthammer piece. I understand that many people are passionate about global warming and consider skeptics to be flat-earthers. Those who don’t like the arguments by Krauthammer, a Fox News contributor, should by all means criticize, dispute, denounce and otherwise go at him. That’s how debate takes place in a country with a vibrant media culture. Instead, these folks believe that censorship is preferable. Why engage Krauthammer when they might just be able to employ pressure tactics to silence him? And what’s the difference between this and shouting down a speaker at a town hall? Krauthammer told me the petition-signers “showed up just in time to make precisely the point I made in the column.” When it comes to free speech, he says, “they don’t even hide it anymore. Now they proudly want certain arguments banished from discourse. The next step is book burning. So the question of the day is: Can you light a Kindle? “Is there anything more anti-scientific than scientific truths being determined by petition and demonstration?” Maybe this reflects a broader trend in which people want to wall themselves off from contrary information — and wall off others as well. Debating a complicated subject like climate change — and, equally important, what to do about it — is difficult. Attempting to silence the other side is the easy way out. Of course, most climate-change proponents are perfectly willing to argue their case on the merits. Unfortunately, that doesn’t apply to everyone. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...e-krauthammer/ |
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I think it's obvious what the answer is to this.
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Yeah, but the climate scientists that are alarmists and or the activists, place thermometers in heat sinks or near them. Must be govt scientists doing that to create job stability for themselves.
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Well, almost never sees ignorance of that magnitude.
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Thanks to government collected weather data, I can already look at 50 years of weather data. Guess what? The temperature is going up.
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My point is/was real science will resolve itself only when government funding for political purposes is eliminated from the equation. I have no problem with funding government funded measurements of temperature but we really shouldn't think to act on them for at least 50 years from now. At a minimum.
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When you initiate an exchange by saying someone doesn't know what a word means, the actual meaning of the word is more than a semantic issue.
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Anyway, you both must not even grasp the broader definition since you appear to think the activists had the ability to censor anything. |
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Number 7 doesn't really require that much projecting of cost/benefits. For example, a seawall to protect NYC is projected at $20B. Sandy cost NYC $19B in lost economic activity and 43 lives. If you get another Sandy type storm in the next 10 years, it is pretty clear evidence that the cost benefit favors building the seawall. But you don't spend billions, on a projection of something that might happen. In other words, if Sandy had not yet occurred, and someone were advocating a seawall for NYC based on predicted potential storms that would crash the city, I'd say let's wait and see. But the planning for these types of hardened infrastructure takes time, and often times multiple iterations, so we should begin that planning process now. |
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Pretty pathetic. Next time, consult me before you lay down definition snark. I know how to use a dictionary and I'd be glad to help you.
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