You could not make this up; creationists in the US refuse to allow their kids to see "An Inconvenient Truth"...
This is just unbeleiveable; some religious, creationist bigot in the US is refusing to allow his kids to watch "An Inconvenient Trust" at school because - get this - he insists that an opposing view be presented as well.
THE CLUE IS IN THE FREAKING TITLE OF THE MOVIE!!! - It is called "An Inconvenient TRUTH" - these are facts! - they are evidence that has been taken from measuring reality; they are not open to debate or argument! Scientists have gone out, looked at a thermometer and written down these numbers! - photos taken ten years apart of the same glacier retreating 500 meters are not made up!
I can see why oil company executives insist on trying to deny climate change; their careers, companies and self esteem are bound up in doing so... but what possible reason does a religious idiot have for doing so?
THE CLUE IS IN THE FREAKING TITLE OF THE MOVIE!!! - It is called "An Inconvenient TRUTH" - these are facts! - they are evidence that has been taken from measuring reality; they are not open to debate or argument! Scientists have gone out, looked at a thermometer and written down these numbers! - photos taken ten years apart of the same glacier retreating 500 meters are not made up!
I can see why oil company executives insist on trying to deny climate change; their careers, companies and self esteem are bound up in doing so... but what possible reason does a religious idiot have for doing so?
posted by Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Republic at
3:46 PM
2 Comments:
Great blog but I would like to correct some of your statements on this post. No-one can deny climate change - the planet would be an odd place if it did not change from year to year - but what is unproven is the cause of the change. The carbon game now being played out by the politicians is not based on facts at all. The human contribution to carbon dioxide emissions is relatively small and historical periods of global climate change occurred without suh a human input of CO2.
The biggest misunderstanding about climate change is not the measurements made over ten years but the fact that the planet is emerging from a major Ice Age that ended some 10,000 years ago. Geologists understand this far better than politicians!
Hmmm - that might be the case (and I am NOT agreeing with you) - but even if it is the case then the warming effect of carbon dioxide is not under doubt; and if so then reducing the concentrations are what is needed to slow the warming - regardless of the cause.
If we continue to pump out CO2 then the planet will warm more - even if the original cause is man made or natural.
The need to cut emissions becomes more urgent if we did not create them in the first place - not less!
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