Global Warming Deniers are on Thin Ice
April 14, 2009 · Print This Article
How is it that conservatives are still able to convince themselves that global warming isn’t really happening, despite being hit with solid facts supporting the opposite point of view on almost a daily basis? The collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf along with a study that shows that only ten percent of Arctic ice is more than two years old as of February 2009 should be a cold slap in the face to global warming deniers, but they haven’t budged.
The Huffington Post’s Michael Coniff explores some of the reasons.
“Well,” said Steve Campbell from Greenpeace, “if the collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the last few days is not a huge wake-up call for our political leaders at a global level, I really don’t know what is. Time for the international community to bite the bullet and come to the table in international climate negotiations, and make sure that particularly developed countries agree to deep emissions reductions, so we can start to really help to solve the climate crisis at the global level.”
Conservatives, of course, tend to be all but immune to inconvenient data of climate change, citing marginal studies and anecdotal evidence scientifically proven by looking out your bedroom window. The difference now is not just the overwhelming data and the word of eminent scientists but the satellite video and computer renderings in your face of what’s going down. Like watching a baby in the womb, the enhanced views visible in time-lapse photography render the skeptic all but defenseless, left to rely on rigor-mortis rhetoric and blowhard bluster in the face of fact after fact from those who actually know jack.
The fact of the matter is, it’s probably easy to deny the facts about global warming when you’re getting all of your information from Fox Noise talking points. Fox barely even pretends to be a real news source anymore – since the election of President Obama they’ve shifted their purpose from full-time propaganda machine to further brainwashing the right with entirely opinion-based, anti-government rhetoric. They’ve even gone so far as to call for viewers to “celebrate with Fox News” by attending these ridiculous tea parties. Fair and balanced, Glenn Beck’s left nut.
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The propaganda used to scare the mindless of the world into driving the Prius and taxing us into bankruptcy is ridiculous. Using the Wilkins Ice Shelf as an example is just ignorant. The Wilkins Ice Shelf is about 16,000 km^2 or about 1% of the total Ice Shelves in Antarctica at 1,500,000 km^2.