Tom Toles - Ear ache
Friday rant: Fool's cold editionAugust 2010: Tom Toles - Election digest
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Now the science is only more conclusive, and we are still resisting even the reasonable, prudent, risk-hedging responses on the hope, the now willfully-blind hope, that the science is not just imperfect, but ASSUREDLY, COMPLETELY and DELIBERATELY wrong, that in fact it is a purposeful, lying hoax.
The people who have embraced this hallucinogenic all-or-nothing-at-all analysis, have perhaps succeeded in delaying a response to the point where it is now too late. They exult in their certainties and relish each ludicrous joke they make about the subject. The result will be what it will be, and they will have been its handmaidens. There is a word for those who have generated the denialist propaganda (hello Fox News memo) to serve their current profits and pleasure at the expense of the planet and all its ecosystems. Cynics. And there is a word for people who will not take even minimal precautionary steps in the face of large threats and are boastful about it. Fools. --Tom Toles
Friday rant -- heat exhaustion edition
This will be my last rant about the climate.
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