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The Planet Wreckers: Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes -- But So Is the Planet
from TomDispatch:
The Planet Wreckers
Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes -- But So Is the Planet
By Bill McKibben
Its been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial.
First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzkis face plastered across it: I Still Believe in Global Warming. Do You? Sponsored by the Heartland Institute, the nerve-center of climate-change denial, it was supposed to draw attention to the fact that the most prominent advocates of global warming arent scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen. Instead it drew attention to the fact that these guys had over-reached, and with predictable consequences.
A hard-hitting campaign from a new group called Forecast the Facts persuaded many of the corporations backing Heartland to withdraw $825,000 in funding; an entire wing of the Institute, devoted to helping the insurance industry, calved off to form its own nonprofit. Normally friendly politicians like Wisconsin Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner announced that they would boycott the groups annual conference unless the billboard campaign was ended.
Which it was, before the billboards with Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden could be unveiled, but not before the damage was done: Sensenbrenner spoke at last months conclave, but attendance was way down at the annual gathering, and Heartland leaders announced that there were no plans for another of the yearly fests. Heartlands head, Joe Bast, complained that his side had been subjected to the most uncivil name-calling and disparagement you can possibly imagine from climate alarmists, which was both a little rich -- after all, he was the guy with the mass-murderer billboards -- but also a little pathetic. A whimper had replaced the characteristically confident snarl of the American right. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175549/tomgram%3A_bill_mckibben%2C_climate-change_deniers_have_done_their_job_well/#more
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The Planet Wreckers: Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes -- But So Is the Planet (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2012
OP
life long demo
(1,113 posts)1. Thanks for the information but
I am worried that we may already be at the tipping point. I hope not, but......
pscot
(21,024 posts)2. No worries, mate
We're probably past it. Four to six degrees C are already baked in the cake. Humanity is in for the ride of its life.
dougolat
(716 posts)3. protecting the money pipeline is job #1.....nt