Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a 'Liberal Hoax'

[marmar]

from The Nation:




Watch: http://www.thenation.com/video/158093/noam-chomsky-how-climate-change-became-liberal-hoax


In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns “to try and convince the population that global warming is a liberal hoax.” According to Chomsky, this massive public relations campaign has succeeded in leading a good portion of the population into doubting the human causes of global warming.

Known for his criticism of the media, Chomsky doesn't hold back in this clip, laying blame on mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, which will run frontpage articles on what meteorologists think about global warming. “Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow," Chomsky says. "What do they have to say any more than your barber?” All this is part of the media’s pursuit of “fabled objectivity.”

Of particular concern for Chomsky is the atmosphere of anger, fear and hostility that currently reigns in America. The public’s hatred of Democrats, Republicans, big business and banks and the public’s distrust of scientists all lead to general disregard for the findings of “pointy-headed elitists.” The 2010 elections could be interpreted as a “death knell for the species” because most of the new Republicans in Congress are global warming deniers. “If this was happening in some small country," Chomsky concludes, "it wouldn’t matter much. But when it’s happening in the richest, most powerful country in the world, it’s a danger to the survival of the species.”


http://www.thenation.com/video/158093/noam-chomsky-how-climate-change-became-liberal-hoax

[Kennah]

1. I would differ with Chomsky that the species is threated

Humans will make it through, but there's going to be death, dying, and slaughter of biblical proportions.

[jtuck004]

2. I will bookmark this, and we can get back in a couple thousand

years, see if this hyphothesis holds up.

These humans have only been around for a very small time, in planetary terms, so I am not sure this is a given.

[Kennah]

3. We made it through the Toba supervolcano ...

... so I suspect humans will survive in a much hotter 21st century, and centuries to come.

There are going to billions of humans dead and many species of plants and animals extinct, so this is not a happy, light, future.

[joshcryer]

6. Depends on where DU is and whether or not they will make backups.

:P

[cprise]

4. The species is threatened

And here is one possible scenario published in 2006 by Scientific American:

http://www.chicagocleanpower.org/ward.pdf

Summary: Increasing anoxia from global warming results in an explosion of anoxic bacteria that take over the oceans, spewing hydrogen sulfide gas that kills most animal life on the planet. Seems its happened naturally in the very distant past (pronounced global warming -> H2S extinction) and I don't see why a man-made global warming trend wouldn't trigger the same thing.

[GliderGuider]

5. Read Peter Ward's "Under a Green Sky" for a good look at that.

Paging Dr. Canfield, your ocean is ready...

[Strelnikov_]

7. Thanks for posting

Sounds interesting.