Warmers, get ready for the shift in public opinion!?

Question

The very instant that Al Gore was awarded a portion of the Nobel Peace Prize, the media began planning it's attack.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/global_warming/2007/10/17/41855.html

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Bob, I trust John Stossel infintely more than I do the United Nations when it comes to objectivity.
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Well RKO,

That is not what the climate record indicates, the climate changes abruptly, if you cherry pick tree ring proxies I guess you can assume that the climate remains stable.

Answer 1

I love John Stossel! What a great reporter. He tell's it like it is.

Gore is a big boy. If he's right, he shouldn't mind defending his position with facts.

Answer 2

Oh geez, why don't we start linking Rush Limbaugh transcripts while we're at it? Stossel is a complete joke.

"I trust John Stossel infintely more than I do the United Nations when it comes to objectivity."

And therein lies your problem. You think someone who tells you what you want to hear is automatically objective. The IPCC is hardly even influenced by the UN - it's run by scientists! You're way into denial territory here.

This article contains a good summary of Stossel's "objectivity".

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1133

Let's look at some of Stossel's "objective" claims:

"polar bear populations appear to be steady or increasing"

LOL!

He spends half the report talking about "these scientists" who "call global warming activism more of a religious movement than science", and doesn't name or quote a single one of them.

"The abstract fantasies of the theory class"

The what?? You mean scientists and scientific theories?

Give me a break indeed. No, this blowhard will not cause a shift in public opinion. As is illustrated by the global warming positions of the Republican Party presidential nominees, public opinion continues to shift toward reality. Even Creationists Huckabee and Brownback acknowledge that humans are causing the current warming!

Answer 3

if they played the sunspot bull in class (the swindle) they would have to make a thousand corrections. Gore is an embellisher (he is American). No matter what the scientific evidence will eventually be so overwhelming (either on the side of or against that the discussion will be over) I hope that AGW is not real and the earth is cooling or whatever but if its not and we caused it and did jack all about stopping it future generations will look at us with absolute disgust.

Objectivity in science is the property of scientific measurement that can be tested independent from the individual scientist (the subject) who proposes them. It is intimately related to the aim of verifiability and reproducibility. To be properly considered objective, the results of measurement must be communicated from person-to-person, and then demonstrated for third parties, as an advance in understanding of the objective world. Such demonstrable knowledge would ordinarily confer demonstrable powers of prediction or technological construction.

Objectivity is a significant principle of journalistic professionalism, especially in the United States. According to scholars, objectivity may refer to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship. The term therefore lacks a single meaning as journalists and the public use it in these varied ways. In many countries, advocacy journalism is considered as a legitimate sort of professional journalism.

Answer 4

Sure buddy. Find a media talking head that says what you want to hear and run with it.

It is always best to ignore the scientist, aka, the people that actually have the education and do the research.
Why trust the UN or international panels of scientists? After all, that guy on ABC said it was all crap. Makes perfect sense to me.

I think you couldn't be more incorrect on the public opinion swing. As those who are open to education and believe in thinking for themselves get more info, informed opinions will lean toward accepting global climate change theory.

Answer 5

The first step is to realize that people like Stossel have absolutely no, zero, null interest in the truth.

His job 1 is self promotion. Job 2 is to sell advertising for ABC. You understand, of course, how advertising works on television. You need to create an emotionally intense moment and then... cut to commercial.

Stossel is the worst sort of second rate hack, an absolute lying disgrace on par with Hannity, Limbaugh and Coulter. No wait, he's worse because he has no ideological underpinning other than self promotion. Hmm, wait again, maybe that's their problem too.

Answer 6

When the true cost of remedies promoted by the internationalist global warming proponents is realized, public opinion will turn against them. Rather than signing on to what is best described as a drama for the rich, working class people will use the power they have in nations with Representative governments to pressure their leaders to find ways to deal with the minuscule rise in temperature, that in the long run will little or no effect on the existence of man

Answer 7

Oh, ok. Now, if only I could force myself to care what public opinion about stuff is...

Ah well, I suppose I might watch the episode of 20/20 any way. Or maybe I won't, since I all ready know every single word that's going to be spoken on it.

Answer 8

You're reduced to quoting John Stossel?

Public opinion is headed the other way on this, of course. The mounting scientific certainty assures that.

A few conservative media columnists have attacked Gore. But Google news will show you that the overwhelming trend is strong approval.

Which do you suppose has more credibility with the general public? John Stossel or the Nobel Prize committee? Duh.

Tomcat - read this all the way through (it won't be pleasant for you). Note how many times there is documentation Stossel has gotten simple, easily checkable facts wrong. And his obvious lack of objectivity on the environment.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1133

"Stossel's errors are often so obvious that one wonders how they could have ended up on the air."

Answer 9

Yeah, John Stossel is the MAN.

Answer 10

Stossel does not dispute that global warming is happening, and he does not dispute that humans are causing it.

That puts him a step or two ahead of some people around here -- including you, Tomcat.