Reply #27: Right wing propaganda by a scientifica dilletant [View All]

who's taking advantage of the current political climate in this country to sell lots of books that will make people feel good about driving their SUV's and ignoring the signs of serious environmental degredation, and allow the scapegoating of real environmental experts.

Comparing the general consensus of environmental scientists to the views on eugenics in the early 20th century is disingenous, guilt by an imaginary association. You could take any scientific discipline in which there's any consensus and dismiss it with the exact same tactics. That does not make the comparison valid, or invalidate the science.

It's quite possible that the hurricanes are more related to cyclical climatic events than to gobal warming, but what about the thawing of the arctic permafrost or the melting of glaciers worldwide, or the tremendous increase in C02 levels that all scientists agree are a greenhouse gas.

How could anyone buy the notion that environmental activists have the capacity to create environmental catastrophes, but massive industrial activity and general environmental destruction doesn't?

I'm afraid that a previously decent author has been reduce to being a shill for the most reactionary, head in the sand elements of our Right Wing dominated society, and some people who lack well developed critical faculties are going to be sucked into his fallacious reasoning.