Behold The Brave New Face Of Climate Deniers Down Under - "The Galileo Movement"

[hatrack]

:puke:

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The group's website lists a host of figures and references that take aim at what they describe as the "political fabrication of global warming alarm." It argues that the chief greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is a harmless component of the atmosphere. "It's an honest document that throws down the gauntlet," said John Smeed, a retired engineer and a Galileo Movement's co-founder. "We have gotten a tremendous amount of support from people who are saying thank goodness someone stood up." Few issues have divided Australians to such a degree. Earlier plans to curb emissions upended two political leaders, including Gillard's immediate predecessor in the Labor party. Support for the Labor government sits at record lows, according to public opinion polls.

Close examination of the Galileo Movement's arguments shows that the effort is recycling many of the same straw man arguments and distortions about the science that other groups have previously employed to scuttle a cap-and-trade bill in the U.S. Congress last year, a stricter emissions trading scheme in New Zealand three years ago and other regional and national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Smeed and Galileo Movement co-founder Case Smit draw support from a who's-who of the global climate-denier movement. Advisors include News Ltd. blogger Andrew Bolt, University of Virginia emeritus physicist Fred Singer, George Mason University climatologist Patrick Michaels, Perth-based coal-to-liquids advocate David Archibald and public speaker Lord Christopher Monckton of the United Kingdom.

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"Every country has its own home-grown marriage of folks who are skeptical of the science and the ideological groups who just don't want regulation," said Aaron Huertas, spokesman for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The playing field is a little bit uneven. To succeed all they have to do is give people an excuse, give them a little grain of doubt, and they're done."

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http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/08/galileo-as-climate-straw-man

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[ret5hd]

2. begone, spammer.

[rurallib]

3. So Australia, which has suffered through incredible drought and floods

in recent years still has climate change deniers?
what does it take to get some people's attention?

[truebrit71]

4. You know, that's the part that still amazes me...when you can SEE the changes that have occurred...

...how do you then go about convincing your self that they aren't real? I have never been ableto get my head around that. It's not like we're arguing about whether aliens exist, or if man really did land on the moon, the fucking ice-caps are melting!!! How much more obvious does it have to be??

[eppur_se_muova]

5. As I said ...

Galileo would roll over in his grave. Then he would :puke:.