Globaloney: No Wonder They Want to Say ‘The Debate Is Over’
Because if they get in a real debate, they lose ground:
Wednesday night, with the Park Avenue Fahrenheit still at 66.9, several hundred well-dressed New Yorkers packed an auditorium at the Asia Society to watch a three-on-three panel debate the proposition: “Global warming is not a crisis.”
….. None of the panelists disputed the assertion that the world’s climate is changing or that humans are partly responsible. Those things, all agreed, always have been true.
“The weather is very different today,” said Crichton, a Roslyn High School graduate. “On Long Island, we used to get off for school for hurricanes.”
But that’s where the comity stopped. The no-crisis panelists argued strenuously that the catastrophe is nowhere near and that efforts to solve the alleged crisis will only make thing worse. That’s the thing to be alarmed about, they said.
The yes-it-is-a-crisis debaters said the deniers were only kidding themselves. Fossil fuels and other byproducts of modern life, they argued, are seriously threatening the health of the Earth. The longer we wait to act, they said, the worse the damage will be.
….. Before the debate, not-a-crisis got 30 percent of the vote. After, the number rose to 46 percent. The is-a-crisis tally dropped from 57 to 42. The undecideds dipped slightly, from 13 to 12.
I’m not as convinced of the “warming is occurring” arguments (see the satellite temps reference at this previous post). But the 15-point turn in one evening is evidence that when the light of truth is allowed to shine through, the globalonists get taken down.
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UPDATE: I get the sense that a significant segment of the “scientific community” (difficult term, given how fractured things are) is trying to start walking back globaloney as far as it possibly can. This latest link talks of supporters for the two scientists who criticized the “Hollywoodisation” of global warming a few days ago.
