pstarr wrote:It's the The Borowitz Report and I got snookered.
Sort of cheating to publish it on April 5. It's getting harder and harder to tell the news from satire these days. There oughta be a law that satire is only allowed on April 1.
pstarr wrote:It's the The Borowitz Report and I got snookered.
ennui2 wrote:Borowitz Report is legendary for being presented without proper disclaimers to warn people that it's satire. Saying "The news, reshuffled" with a smiling caricature of the guy isn't enough. It looks too much like real news and it's irresponsible journalism.
Lore wrote:You have a point. It's called kick the can down the road and hope you're not around by then to catch the hot potato.
I pity the poor suckers left in charge with no solution other than to suggest to their constituency to grab ankles firmly with both hands, put head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
The Vatican is set to release Pope Francis' highly anticipated encyclical -- an official document delivering teachings from the Pope -- on the environment and climate change this week. Marking the second such document from the Pope since he assumed the papacy in March 2013, the encyclical is expected to cast the battle against global warming as a moral obligation.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, one of many candidates vying for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, represents a faction of the GOP that's skeptical that global warming is a real phenomenon.
"The satellite data demonstrate that there has been no significant warming whatsoever for 17 years," Cruz said earlier this year, making the case that the "global warming alarmists" don't base their claims on facts.
Other candidates, like Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, have also expressed serious skepticism about the theory of global warming. "Someone is an ignoramus who would say, 'Oh, we've had three hurricanes this year, this proves that somehow the climate is warming,'" Paul said last year.
Santorum, who landed in hot water for criticizing the Pope for weighing in on climate change, said this month that he's disturbed by scientists who say the debate is "settled."
"All the predictions that were made 15 years ago, none of them have come true," Santorum said on Fox News. "So all of this certainty -- this is what bothers me about this debate."
"I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is expected to launch his White House bid on Monday, said last month in New Hampshire.
Fellow Floridian and declared presidential candidate Marco Rubio has followed a similar tack: "Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe," the senator recently said on CBS.
Lore wrote:No longer interesting, just dumb on the conservative politicians part.
Dybbuk wrote:Lore wrote:No longer interesting, just dumb on the conservative politicians part.
It's just a script they read, because of their political agenda. I would guess that most of them know that AGW is real. But the truth is irrelevant in politics.
KaiserJeep wrote:I am going to say this once. I was born in 1951, and I was in Junior High School when the great majority of Climate Scientists were screaming that we were about to induce an Ice Age. They were blaming a wide variety of causes, everything from paving over grasslands to acid rain to algae blooms caused by fertilizer runoffs. Some were even talking about the then new technology high altitude jets - the Boeing 707 was the popular target - destroying the ozone layer and causing the planet to first cloud up worse than Venus, and then freeze.
1970s ice age predictions were predominantly media based. The majority of peer reviewed research at the time predicted warming due to increasing CO2.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age ... ediate.htm
How the "Global Cooling" Story Came to Be
Gwynne was the science editor of Newsweek 39 years ago when he pulled together some interviews from scientists and wrote a nine-paragraph story about how the planet was getting cooler.
Fox News loves to cite it. So does Rush Limbaugh. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., has quoted the story on the Senate floor.
Gwynne, now 72, is a bit chagrinned that from a long career of distinguished science and technology reporting, he is most remembered for this one story.
"When I wrote this story I did not see it as a blockbuster," Gwynne recalled. "It was just an intriguing piece about what a certain group in a certain niche of climatology was thinking."
And, revisionist lore aside, it was hardly a cover story. It was a one-page article on page 64. It was, Gwynne concedes, written with a bit of over-ventilated style that sometimes marked the magazine's prose: "There are ominous signs the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically..." the piece begins, and warns of a possible "dramatic decline in food production."
And, Gwynne protested: "I wrote this in 1975!"
KaiserJeep wrote:I knew you flaming reality deniers would jump right on this, and use as your evidence the virtual reality of the internet.
I even told you you would do so, and you did. But obviously, you never thought about it. Maybe some of the readers of this thread will actually think rather than reflexively act.
One can hope.
KaiserJeep wrote:Just because you read something on the internet, and can still link to it, does not make that thing true.
KaiserJeep wrote:Because I was there, I experienced what I am talking about first hand, I was scared by it, and I have never forgotten the circumstances or the reporting of the pending crisis. Which was all BS as it turned out, even though it was prevailing opinion - and now is just an inconvenient incident that the scientists involved would like you to forget ever happened.
It was a valuable lesson in objective reality. It was the first time I realized that words in print could not be trusted. A lesson that none of you who are still protesting have yet learned.
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