What is this fictional character democrats keep talking about?

Question

Democrats keep talking about "Global Warming Deniers", but I have never even seen one. I have only seen people questioning the extent to which human activity is contributing to Global Warming, people urging caution before Congress puts into law certain requirements that will cost companies billions upon billions of dollars, people questioning the extent to which Global Warming can be reversed. and people questioning the accuracy of Al Gore's predictions. Al Gore has predicted 20 foot rises in sea levels, but the most recent figures project about 14-24 INCHES, not feet.

So, in conslusion, where are these people who are denying Global Warming is even happening, because I have NEVER seen one.

Answer 1

They are having dinner with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the smart Democrat.

Answer 2

There are global warming deniers, just as there are supporters of the theory. The absolute truth is that nobody knows absolutly what will happen, having no real model to go from. Global warming and its' effects are theory, not actual fact and theories are like so many other ideas, quite variable.

Answer 3

I think you are absolutely right. The cause of the warming is the question, not the warming itself.
I would also include all those doom and gloom warnigs as to the consequences. I've been walking down the same beach for over twent-five years, and the water level is the same.
To cry about those poor exectutives that are going to start swiming to their offices in Manhattan is , excuse the pun, going way over board on the issue

Answer 4

We will initially address the "fictional character" the democrats reference, and that would be the"democratic mind" yes rather oxymoronical I know. As for global warming?
Here is an excerpt of a speech from Vaclav Klaus

Published: June 13 2007 17:44


"We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now. The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: "the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem. It requires courage to oppose the “established” truth, although a lot of people – including top-class scientists – see the issue of climate change entirely differently. They protest against the arrogance of those who advocate the global warming hypothesis and relate it to human activities.

As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning. Does it make any sense to speak about warming of the Earth when we see it in the context of the evolution of our planet over hundreds of millions of years? Every child is taught at school about temperature variations, about the ice ages, about the much warmer climate in the Middle Ages. All of us have noticed that even during our life-time temperature changes occur (in both directions).

Due to advances in technology, increases in disposable wealth, the rationality of institutions and the ability of countries to organise themselves, the adaptability of human society has been radically increased. It will continue to increase and will solve any potential consequences of mild climate changes.

I agree with Professor Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who said: “future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age”.

The issue of global warming is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature. "
The above quote was written by the President of the Czech Republic

Hopefully that answers some questions about how some people perceive global warming, versus those who blindly follow media "fact"

Answer 5

Michael Crichton

Answer 6

It's just a label used to discredit those who question the "accepted truth", just as those who question the war in Iraq are called anti-war, anti-american, pro-terrorism -- see how it works?

Answer 7

walk down the street of your town asking every person "do you believe in Global Warming?" and I bet at least one will say no. then you'll have seen one of them.