<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">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. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Vision 2020 <Vision2020@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, September 1, 2011 1:14 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Al Gore thinks climate "deniers" are akin to racists from the Old South<BR></FONT><BR>I'd like to get some vision2020 members opinions on this. Here is an article from the <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Huffington</SPAN> 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.<BR><BR>Here is the article: <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/gore-climate-change-deniers_n_940802.html" target=_blank>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/gore-climate-change-deniers_n_940802.html</A><BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>Just curious if I sound like <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>everyone's</SPAN> uncle that everybody seems to have that embarrasses you every time you go out in public with him.<BR><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR>Is that really a healthy
attitude to have about scientific skepticism?<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A><BR> <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>=======================================================<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>