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| the topic of global warming gets leftists hot under the collar | | Date Created: Apr 12, 2005, 11:21 PM |
 John Stossel is now starting to write a column that is getting picked up by TownHall.com
The latest one is on the response from the left on his first column wherein he supports Michael Crichton's contention that global warming is politicized science with the usual scare tactics (State of Fear) to get people convinced and committed. Since these people believe it like a religion, the response to Stossel's questioning of the received wisdom of global warming results in typical fanatacism.
Here's some of the column:
The climate scare
John Stossel
April 13, 2005
I've been getting lots of e-mail about my column on the environmental crisis of the moment, global warming.
"John, we already have Geraldo to make an ass of himself -- that job is already taken. You (and your ilk) are adding to global warming by spewing this hot air from your pucker brush." Then came: "Boy when you sell out, you really sell out don't you ... What a sh-t bag you've turned into." And another writes: "All of the cow flatulence in the world can't equal the effect of the odiferous steam rising from the pile of bull---- that you lay down." Thank you, Mr. Thompson.
The e-mails I got were quite similar, because they're based on the same critical web page -- sometimes "based on" as in "copied": One person even forwarded me my own photograph.
...Sounds devastating, as if I had ignored basic science, but when I discussed Michael Crichton's argument that we needn't worry about global warming, I didn't deny that warming was a "scientific reality." Crichton doesn't deny it. The earth has warmed about one degree in the past 100 years. Climate changes . It always has. I reported on the real warming trend in my TV special, "Tampering With Nature." The real question is whether the warming is a "crisis," and whether trying to "fix" it will help or just wreck the lives of the poor.
Still, by citing scientific reports, the critical web page implies that Crichton and I have the science wrong. It's a clever way to smear.
... The inspiration for the hate mail is a group called "Media Matters for America." The man behind it is David Brock. Brock first made his reputation fighting viciously for the right wing: He published a book called "The Real Anita Hill." Now he fights viciously for the Left.
Thirty years ago this month, Newsweek reported: "There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production -- with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now." The headline? "The Cooling World." That's right: Just 30 years ago, scaremongers were telling us about global cooling . The alarmists never stop. Maybe the key issue isn't science. Maybe they just want us to be "concerned." |
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