Climate Change Denial: State of the Art

onFeb 13, 2008 @ 07:32 PST

Somebody sent me this Toronto Sun piece the other day and I tried to ignore it. Seriously, in two short paragraphs, columnist Lorrie Goldstein dismisses we “global warming fanatics” as unreasonable, indecent, insensible, absurd, disgusting, juvenile, half-baked, self-righteous and mindless propagandists.

He then lays out a careful scientific argument convincingly refuting the global scientific consensus on climate change … no, I’m kidding. He just goes on being insulting for his entire 600-word budget.

Perhaps we should take heart that this the opposition has been reduced to this ….

By Richard Littlemore

Analysis

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