Quark Soup by David Appell: Romm's Rage Shtick Now Playing in Theatre 3

The worst thing about all this is that there are a certain group of people who, if this were a high school debate and you had them reverse all their positions, their tactics and tone would be completely predictable and the tenor of the debate would be completely unchanged.

Joe Romm is in that group.

Romm -- whose organization, let's remember, refuses to reveal its own funders -- just can't help himself.

Quark Soup by David Appell: The Two Sides of Desmogblog's Mouth

These words are from Richard Littlemore at Desmogblog, but I've added the colors. Can someone please explain to me how the sentiment in blue is not in direct opposition to the sentiments in red??

Quark Soup by David Appell

[21 min audio] I spoke with American Geophysical Union President Michael McPhaden tonight, who was in Australia. He answered my questions about the Peter Gleick/Heartland Institute incident and Gleick's resignation as Chair of the AGU Task Force on Scientific Integrity. We also discussed its potential impact on AGU, scientists who are also activists and/or concerned citizens, and politicalization in the climate debate, including that of [English major] Chris Mooney who was on the Board of Directors of the AGU.

Loaded terms of debate | The Spectator

Now I’ve noticed a new one. Opponents of the dominant paradigm are no longer called climate change deniers, they are now called ‘opponents of climate science’. The implication is that the science is all decided and those who question it are sort of Appalachian backwoodsmen with weedkiller in their basements.

I continue to suspect that we have contributed to the warming of the planet, incidentally. But I like to keep a watch on these evangelistic, fundamentalist monkeys.

Heartland's Classroom Climate Science Polluter: 'CO2 Is The Global Food Supply' | ThinkProgress

[Dr. David E. Wojick] CO2 is not pollution, it is the global food supply. Watching a child grow is watching atmospheri­c CO2 being reprocesse­d.