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LTC:
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The campaign against climate science has been enormously clever, and enormously effective. It's worth trying to understand how they've done it. The best analogy, I think, is to the O.J. Simpson trial, an event that's begun to recede into our collective memory. For those who were conscious in 1995, however, I imagine that just a few names will make it come back to life. Kato Kaelin, anyone? Lance Ito?

The Dream Team of lawyers assembled for Simpson's defense had a problem: it was pretty clear their guy was guilty. Nicole Brown's blood was all over his socks, and that was just the beginning. So Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian et al. decided to attack the process, arguing that it put Simpson's guilt in doubt, and doubt, of course, was all they needed. Hence, those days of cross-examination about exactly how Dennis Fung had transported blood samples, or the fact that Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrman had used racial slurs when talking to a screenwriter in 1986.

If anything, they were actually helped by the mountain of evidence. If a haystack gets big enough, the odds only increase that there will be a few needles hidden inside.
 Whatever they managed to find, they made the most of: in closing arguments, for instance, Cochran compared Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler and called him "a genocidal racist, a perjurer, America's worst nightmare, and the personification of evil."

Similarly, the immense pile of evidence now proving the science of global warming beyond any reasonable doubt is in some ways a great boon for those who would like, for a variety of reasons, to deny that the biggest problem we've ever faced is actually a problem at all. If you have a three-page report, it won't be overwhelming and it's unlikely to have many mistakes. Three thousand pages (the length of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)? That pretty much guarantees you'll get something wrong.
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The great irony is that the climate skeptics have prospered by insisting that their opponents are radicals. In fact, those who work to prevent global warming are deeply conservative, insistent that we should leave the world in something like the shape we found it. We want our kids to know the world we knew. Here's the definition of radical: doubling the carbon content of the atmosphere because you're not completely convinced it will be a disaster. We want to remove every possible doubt before we convict in the courtroom, because an innocent man in a jail cell is a scandal, but outside of it we should act more conservatively.
http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/02/climate-changes-oj-simpson-moment

Dementia_Madness:
LOL nice try LTC, but that OPINION piece relies on the belief that the mountain of evidence is in favor of man-made Global warming....first the assumption that this is true must be believed before the argument it has has any validity to it at all. In FACT as we have shown here the mountain is actually the science against global warming and the scientists against it....and the needles is actually the science that has been manipulated, hidden, and lied about to prove AGW.

Just a few facts to chew on...

We were told by your side that global warming has been a steady increase for the last few decades due to man made co2 emissions....fact the leading supporter of Global warming has admitted there has been NO warming for the last 15 years when it should have been the most.

We were told that we are killing the polar bears...fact of the 13 known populations of polar bears 11 are actually increasing and only two have shown slight declines...there are nearly three times more polar bears today than there were in the 60s 50 years ago.

We were told that Africa was in trouble and that global wamringw as the cause, now they admit this is not true.

we were told the seas would be rising drastically now we are told this is not true.

we were told that the ice caps were melting, once again, not true.

we were told that the Himalayas were shrinking...not true

we could go on and on, it's not just needles in a hay stack, it's everything we have been told and warned about in global warming being proven false....

This article is a great example....."the immense pile of evidence now proving the science of global warming beyond any reasonable doubt" it makes an assertion, without any evidence or facts to back it up, just like you liberals do, which door leads to doom, the one that only lies...or the one that tells the truth? This articles argument is based on an opinion not only that there is vast evidence (none of which is ever offered to support such claims, does the emperor have clothes?) that AGW is real...but that it is "beyond a reasonable doubt" in other words, anyone with doubts is not reasonable, because why? because we say so....seriously? (liberal arguments #1 & #3 above)

But I digress this argument was not about the facts of global warming but whether or not politicized science is a good thing or a bad thing. It seems you liberals have no problem with it I guess.... since once again your only argument is not actually what is being argued....(liberal argument example two above). And that when harm is done because of a lie, that lie (and the liars), is part of the blame for the harm (hmmmm Bush lied people died sound familiar?).

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