tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post6716252169788674716..comments2024-01-16T13:06:15.270-06:00Comments on Climate Change: The Next Generation: PBS' Newshour puts radical lying Heartland Institute climate change denier, James Taylor, on a segment for "balance"Tenney Naumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-10477118435927789452012-05-13T11:10:36.332-05:002012-05-13T11:10:36.332-05:00Thanks, Tenney, but as a communications guy, I don...Thanks, Tenney, but as a communications guy, I don't think it is very effective to repeat all of Heartland's stuff on your blog, even if you begin by saying it's all lies. That's just giving them another platform. Better would be a short post setting out three or four major truths about climate science that Taylor's comments contradict, so that you're repeating things people should remember ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-36271280643525306902012-05-06T09:23:36.816-05:002012-05-06T09:23:36.816-05:00This segment on PBS was very bad. In addition to p...This segment on PBS was very bad. In addition to propping up the lie that there is no threat to global stability posed by "business as usual", they also misrepresented the methods and underlying motivations of the climate change deniers. we routinely get as much rain in a single storm event as we would "normally" get in several months. Last summer, at our home in green bay, Wisconsin we got nearly half of our average annual rainfall in just two storm events which occurred in the same week, just two days apart.<br />If we look to the planetary fossil fuel reserves as giant batteries, storing solar energy that fell to Earth millions of years ago, we are extracting all that energy in a few short generations. Even a system as massive as the ecosphere has limits to what it can absorb and dissipate. The destabilization of the atmosphere is a logical consequence of human activities over the past fifty to hundred years. Detailed analysis of the rapid escalation of record-setting storm and climatic events would inform the average fifth-grader more effectively than the ravings of organizations such as the Heartland Institute, the folks who, for religious reasons, are anxious for the end times to solve all of our problems, or the plain old stupid who could not reason their way out of a Wal-Mart store. Pointing a camera at the retarded used to be socially unacceptable, now it seems that it just makes "good tv". I, for one, am shocked and amazed that people who don't know anything about science are allowed to comment on facts that lie outside their frame of reference. We certainly have the right to our own opinions, but we must all defer to facts.<br />My blogs can be found at Wordpress as Permaculture, ECO-Ethics, Trees and at blogger.com at either The Otherfish Wrap or ECO-Tours of Wisconsin Inc.<br />I for one amBioneer: Tony C. Saladinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06866510956209307817noreply@blogger.com