Friday, February 17, 2012

How would Schlafly spin this one?

On her radio show "Eagle Forum," conserative Phyllis Schlafly is quick to denounce anything that tries to posit that global warming could be man-made (thank you fossil fuels). I wonder how she would react to this story. The excerpt I included below is quite interesting.

The most sensational parts of the documents — and much of what has been confirmed independently — had to do with global warming and efforts to spread doubt into what mainstream scientists are saying. Experts long have thought Heartland and other groups were working to muddy the waters about global warming, said Harry Lambright, a Syracuse University public policy professor who specializes in environment, science and technology issues.


"Scientifically there is no controversy. Politically, there is a controversy because there are political interest groups making it a controversy," Lambright said. "It's not about science. It's about politics. To some extent they are winning the battle."


A 2010 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences surveyed more than 1,300 most cited and published climate scientists and found that 97 percent of them said climate change was a man-made problem. Yet, public opinion polls show far more doubt in the American public.


So 97% of experts agree that global warming is man-made, yet the crazies with ties to big corporations still want to deny it.  Where else do we refuse to accept such knowledge?  Our experts prove that smoking causes cancer, yet time and again big tobacco companies wanted to cover that up.  Still, is anyone in their right mind standing up and actually arguing that smoking is good for you or, at least, doesn't cause lung cancer?  Nonsense.

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