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Does it matter if the person "denying global warming" has actual
facts to back them up?<br>
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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?<br>
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Don't mind me, I'm just trying to probe the outer edges of their
reality-distortion field.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 09/01/2011 08:48 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:
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<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.
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Paul
Rumelhart <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com"><godshatter@yahoo.com></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Vision
2020 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"><Vision2020@moscow.com></a><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>
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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>
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Here is the article: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Is that really a healthy attitude to have about scientific
skepticism?<br>
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Paul<br>
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