Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics"

From	jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics, alt.global-warming
Subject	Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics"
Date	2015-12-24 13:44 +0000
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Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 12/22/15 4:43 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics"
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-boslough/npr-finally-stops-referri_b_616
5846.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is famous for thinking that human-caused
>> global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American
>> people." His belief presupposes the existence of a worldwide
>> conspiracy--sustained over many decades--by scientists of all
>> nationalities, races, creeds, and political leanings.
>>
>> Inhofe's alleged perpetrators include NASA, NOAA, the Pentagon,
>> National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, American
>> Geophysical Union, and virtually every other research and scientific
>> organization in the world. Such a conspiracy would require collusion
>> on a massive scale to fudge data and consistently lie to the public
>> and policy makers without getting caught. Extraordinary claim? You
>> bet.
>>
>> Carl Sagan popularized the skeptical mantra: "extraordinary claims
>> require extraordinary evidence." Authentic scientific skepticism is
>> an intellectual and scholarly pursuit that requires honesty,
>> rationality, logic, and evidence. Real skeptics do not cling to
>> absurd conspiracy theories for which there is no evidence, nor do
>> they engage in obfuscation, misrepresentation, data fabrication,
>> smear campaigns, or intimidation tactics. These are the methods of
>> deniers.
>>
>
>    Seems there is still some global warming denying going on right
>    here in these USENET newsgroups.

Have you finished reading _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_?

/BAH

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NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 16:43 -0600
  Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-22 23:44 +0000
  Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 21:48 -0600
    Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Chom Noamsky <chomchomchom@chom.chom> - 2015-12-22 20:02 -0800
      Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:45 -0600
    Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-12-22 23:20 -0600
      Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-12-23 05:58 -0500
        Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:48 -0500
      Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:45 -0500
    Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-23 06:33 +0000
      Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Waye Kitchens <wscom@complang.net> - 2015-12-23 14:48 +0000
      Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 08:54 -0600
        Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Waye Kitchens <wscom@complang.net> - 2015-12-23 14:57 +0000
        Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-23 17:43 +0000
    Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-12-24 13:44 +0000
  Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-23 06:35 +0000
    Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 09:07 -0600
      Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-23 17:43 +0000
  Re: NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics" Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-12-23 20:05 -0600

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