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Quote by: Xyzer Sonart, you are obviously a victim of too much mainstream media nonsense..BMI Special Report -- Global Warming Censored |
Well by golly, what an incredible surprise that you'd link up to a Free Market think tank for your propaganda... er... information. And what's their non-scientific beef? Gasp! The media isn't presenting enough "alternative opinion" on global warming.
How ironic. Recall that one of the points Al Gore presented was research that showed that, from random sample of around 900 peer reviewed research papers, 100% of them supported the consensus of anthropogenic global warming. Conversely, from a random sample of mainstream media sources, something like 50% made a point of giving equal weight to alternative viewpoints, apparently in order to attract readers/viewers by whipping up controversy.
Since then, however, the scientific consensus that global warming is real, that we caused it and that it's happening faster than predicted, has become SO overwhelming that even the mainstream media can't deny it.
Alas, that leaves poor schmucks like Xyzer caught in what I call the crossroads of dogmatic ideology, morality and reality. I compare it to religious conservatives and the issue of homosexuality. For centuries, religious conservatives, because of their dogmatic ideology, felt free to condemn homosexuals as immoral. Which, of course, was irrefutable because religious conservatives had taken upon themselves the mantel of arbitors of what is and isn't moral.
Over time, however, REALITY has since determined that homosexuality is a
condition that individuals are born with, out of no choice of their own, and, further, it's a condition that harms no one. Well, by their own ideology, condemning someone for a harmless physical condition over which they had no choice would not only be cruel, it would be immoral.
Can't have that, since that would make their dogmatic ideology itself immoral and that's impossible. The only solution? Reality is wrong, homosexuality isn't a condition, it's a
choice, and therefore, can remain immoral!
Same with global warming. Based on conservative, free-market dogmatic ideology, government regulation of the free-market isn't just wrong, it's downright immoral!!! Along comes the REALITY of global warming, a massive threat to life on earth as we know it. It would be downright IMMORAL not to take steps to stop or slow climate change, but that would mean requiring the Free Market to change the way it does business, and if they refuse, compelling change through government regulation, and, based on dogmatic ideology, that would ALSO be immoral.
Dang! Can't have that, so the only way to maintain the moral superiority of dogmatic ideology is simple... Global Warming isn't happening. Problem solved.
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