The Hoax of the Global Warming Hoax
A Links entry from Tuesday, August 7, 2007The Hoax of the Global Warming Hoax
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Every story on the news has to present “both sides”, assuming that there always are two sides to a story and that both of these sides have equal credibility. One suspects that were a discussion about Copernicus to emerge, our media outlets would feel compelled to insure that both the geocentric and the heliocentric hypothesis were given equal time and that it was emphasized that both positions were “theories” and that it was therefore up to personal judgment to decide which one is true. This is something I encounter in my students as well (i.e., the idea that everything is an opinion, interpretation, or belief and that all beliefs are on equal footing appears to be trickling down through all of American culture), that manifests itself in sentence structures that have the form “I think”, “I feel”, “I believe”, “It is Socrates’ opinion that…” In short, everything has to be expressed with a minimal subjective distance or skepticism, implicitly suggesting that any claim is already simply a matter of opinion that can then be summarily dismissed…
tina oiticica harris
Proud to be biased, thank you very much. Cliché - when push comes to shove, we will all have to choose, even if our choice is to stay home and do nothing. How can people with a sound mind give credence to the rights of creationists, for example? Frankly, only in the USA. To do so is ignorance, not wisdom.
Good post.
Jason
Your comment confuses me…”credence to the rights of creationists”? Huh?
I’d read that article in NewsWeek and on MSNBC.com, while it does paint a pretty negative situation where numerous “global warming deniars” regularly revieve grants from organizations such as Exxon-Mobile, I do think it ends on a pretty positive note. Turns out, figures showing the percentage of citizens who now feel global warming is a major issue has increased substantially over the past 3 years (since the last poll was taken). More so, the level of division over whether or not global warming is still a “theory” or “highly debated principle” has also decreased. I sort of wish that larval article had mentioned that, instead of taking the cliche “woe is us” tone so highly used by leftists.
If things are actually improving, if people are actually beginning to recognize that global warming is very real, why not say it?
Bryan Klausmeyer
bryklaus@umich.edu
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