Exposed: The Climate Of Fear
May 3, 2007
Did anybody else watch this last night? I thought it was pretty good. Finally something that talks about the other side of the debate. And yes, despite what some think, there is a valid “other side” and the debate is not over. Ms. Crow.
I’m not going go into detail. You can read the transcript or watch the repeat of it, but there is one thing I wanted to spotlight. The interview with Martin Eberhard. The man who invented the Telsa. An electric car that I wouldn’t mind owning.
Eberhard:
Part of what`s gone wrong with so many electric cars that came on before is that they’re built by people who thought of driving as a necessary evil and that Americans’ driving habits are bad and we`re bad people and we shouldn’t do that, and if we would just become better people, why, we can be perfectly happy with this glorified golf cart.
And something Beck points out:
But the point is that these technologies will only be adopted when people want to choose them
Bingo. You can’t force change on Americans. When pushed, we tend to push back. We have to want to change. The Prius doesn’t make me want to change. It’s an ass-ugly car. Al Gore doesn’t make me want to change. His vitriol is mind-numbingly boring. You want the average American to become more eco-friendly? Lay of the screaming and badgering and give something we like.
And make sure you check out the whole part about the Kyoto Failure.
Posted in America, Christopher Lee, Global warming, In Case You Missed It
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May 3rd, 2007 at 9:42 am
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May 3rd, 2007 at 10:02 am
I really liked the program.
May 4th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Chris said: And this is the type of stuff that makes me want to pollute. If for nothing else than to just piss these people off.
That’s what I call cutting off your nose to spite your face.
After reading the transcript I didn’t see anything new or particularly interesting. It was all the same tired arguments…Kyoto is unfair so let’s not do anything, Al Gore exaggerated the rise in sea level, the scientific consensus on global warming doesn’t mean anything, skeptics are being persecuted and the scientists arguing for AGW are doing it for the money.
If you really want to learn something about global warming I recommend this site. (Full disclosure: it’s from the IPCC)
May 4th, 2007 at 8:54 am
I don’t know what you were reading, Silke, but nowhere did it say let’s not do anything. They talked about how to get Americans to want to protect the environment. They talked about alternative energy sources such as nuclear and solar.
The part about Al Gore was because so many people treat that book and movie as a Green Bible and they were showing some of the errors and outright lies. I thought that’s what debate was supposed to do.
“Scientific consensus”? What’s that? Do the 19,000+ scientists who signed the Oregon petition not count? Are they not reputable enough or something. Not every scientist agrees with the IPCC.
If someone is having their job, or life, threatened because they speak out on something, I think that’s something that needs to be talked about. That’s fascism to a tee.
And I’m not sure what AGW is.
Dr. John Christy , the Alabama State Climatologist:
“I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors (of the 2001 IPCC report). And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.”
Is he lying?
What about the claim that temperatures raise CO-2, not the other way around?
I think there’s a lot still to debate.