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Via Digby, the Washington Post's Josh Dawsey, writing about Mr. Trump's latest speech to wealthy Republican party donors:
"...(Trump) called global warming “a great hoax” that could actually bring a welcome development: more waterfront property..."
Meanwhile, Norm Farrell, citing a paper in the British Journal of Political Science, notes that the overwhelming majority of the scientific contrarians who formally oppose the concept of man-made climate change are not actually climate scientists:
"...Collectively, our findings show that the majority of those who signed documents that reject AGW [anthropogenic global warming] are not climate experts. As a result, these individuals lack the authority to render an opinion regarding climate change science…
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97 per cent do not meet expert criteria and are also involved with organizations and industries who make up the climate change countermovement..."
Hmmm...
One can only wonder how many of those 'contrarians' are moonlighting as vacation property real estate agents.
Or some such thing.
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Image at the top of the post?...The actual band Beach House.
"...(Trump) called global warming “a great hoax” that could actually bring a welcome development: more waterfront property..."
Meanwhile, Norm Farrell, citing a paper in the British Journal of Political Science, notes that the overwhelming majority of the scientific contrarians who formally oppose the concept of man-made climate change are not actually climate scientists:
"...Collectively, our findings show that the majority of those who signed documents that reject AGW [anthropogenic global warming] are not climate experts. As a result, these individuals lack the authority to render an opinion regarding climate change science…
{snip}
97 per cent do not meet expert criteria and are also involved with organizations and industries who make up the climate change countermovement..."
Hmmm...
One can only wonder how many of those 'contrarians' are moonlighting as vacation property real estate agents.
Or some such thing.
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Image at the top of the post?...The actual band Beach House.
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2 comments:
Did anyone ask Orange Julius that if it’s a hoax how can it possibly make for more waterfront property?
I think the problem of unqualified opinions and “expert” facts goes through many storylines now. From climate change to Covid to politics and wars. We all have an opinion but most of us would not sell ourselves as an expert.
The idiotic statements made by Trump as reported in the link RossK provided above are scary. Not because his idiocy is surprising (it’s been on full display for years), or that the assembled well-heeled GOP were laughing, either with him or at him. The scary part is that the GOP bank rollers were there with their open chequebooks, and Trump is the front runner for 2024.
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