We HAVE Heard This Rhetoric Before « NoFrakkingConsensus

The similarity to contemporary global warming rhetoric is striking. Back in the groovy 1970s, we were being told that the evidence for dangerous cooling was so persuasive that we:

* shouldn’t gamble with the future
* shouldn’t ignore the evidence
* mustn’t risk inaction
* should view scientists with alternative points-of-view as irresponsible
* should consider the evidence too strong to be ignored

Despite such highly-charged, eerily-familiar rhetoric, rather than descending into an ice age the globe promptly, we’re now told, began a 25-year-long warming period.

Warning Signs: Did the Global Warming Hoax Die in Cancun?

There never was a “consensus” of scientists to support the global warming fraud. What is left is the spectacle of United Nations delegates seeking to impose its control over the world’s sovereign nations through the most audacious scheme ever perpetrated in the name of science.

Why Media Matters Doesn’t « Green Hell Blog

Rather than urging skepticism, Sammon merely advised reporters to treat claims about global warming as what they are — claims that are disputed. Sammon correctly noted that a journalist’s job is to report the facts rather than to decide what they are.

This is apparently too a subtle distinction for the comrades at Media Mutters.