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CNBC's Climate "Expert": "Demonization Of Carbon Dioxide Is Just Like" Demonization Of "Jews Under Hitler"The cable business channel CNBC continued to push climate change denial on its network, hosting a professor who compared the "demonization" of carbon dioxide to the Holocaust.
Physics Professor William Happer has published no peer-reviewed research on climate change, yet co-host Joe Kernen introduced him as an "industry expert" on the July 14 edition of Squawk Box. After a softball interview with Kernen, co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin challenged Happer for "not believ[ing] in climate change" -- to which Happer responded by telling Sorkin to "shut up." Sorkin then asked Happer about comments he made to The Daily Princetonian in 2009 comparing climate science to Nazi propaganda.
Happer doubled down on his comments, stating that "the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler. Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews."
Sorkin also noted that Happer, who has suggested that people should be "clamoring for more atmospheric carbon dioxide," is the chairman of the Marshall Institute, which received $865,000 from ExxonMobil from 1998 to 2011.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/15/cnbcs-climate-expert-demonization-of-carbon-dio/200107
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"Demonization Of Carbon Dioxide Is Just Like" (Original Post)
Ichingcarpenter
Jul 2014
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liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)1. This makes my head hurt
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. Freaks
who will make us die.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)3. Words fail me in the presence of such world-class Teh Stupid And Hysterical
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)4. Wow, he went all Godwin on us right off the bat (nfm)
Nfm
littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)5. They can only hide behind the so called "good book"
For so long and the ark wasn't built in a day.
Stryst
(714 posts)6. He'll be dead before it's a problem that will
affect him, and he'll make piles of money in the meantime, so screw us and every following generation.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)7. Yep, he embodies the Bush approach to history and the future.
> He'll be dead before it's a problem that will
> affect him, and he'll make piles of money in the meantime,
> so screw us and every following generation.
"The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now,
and you and I will not be around to see it." - George W. Bush
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)8. That's what he may think.
I'd be willing to bet money that he'll live to see the hard times.