[Vision2020] Al Gore thinks climate "deniers" are akin to racists from the Old South

[Paul Rumelhart]

Does it matter if the person "denying global warming" has actual facts 
to back them up?

For example, when I correct someone yet again on this list who is 
overstating the amount of sea level rise that the IPCC expects as their 
worst-case scenario, do I sound ignorant?  Should everyone turn away and 
pretend I didn't say anything at all?

Don't mind me, I'm just trying to probe the outer edges of their 
reality-distortion field.

Paul

On 09/01/2011 08:48 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:
> I do think someone sounds ignorant and uneducated when they deny 
> global warming and humans having a negative impact on the Earth's 
> environment. I also think someone sounds ignorant and uneducated about 
> people when they say racist, sexist, homophobic things. So, yes, in 
> that respect, I think the two are similar. Other than this, no, there 
> are no similarities.
> Donovan Arnold
>
> *From:* Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Vision 2020 <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 1, 2011 1:14 PM
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Al Gore thinks climate "deniers" are akin to 
> racists from the Old South
>
> I'd like to get some vision2020 members opinions on this.  Here is an 
> article from the Huffington Post where in an interview Al Gore talks 
> about "winning the conversation" with climate deniers which refers to 
> how racist comments were basically shunned in everyday conversations 
> after the civil rights movement occurred.
>
> Here is the article: 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/gore-climate-change-deniers_n_940802.html
>
> Do you think it's legitimate to treat talk of skepticism of 
> anthropogenic global warming in the same way that we do racist 
> language today?
>
> Should I, as a climate skeptic, be told that "we don't talk about that 
> here in polite conversation" when I have a question about something 
> related to the science of climate change?
>
> Just curious if I sound like everyone's uncle that everybody seems to 
> have that embarrasses you every time you go out in public with him.
>
> Is that really a healthy attitude to have about scientific skepticism?
>
> Paul
>
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