Wyatt earp
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The AGW cult going against their own consensus and say it ain't so becoming anti science?
Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change
Are liberals impairing our ability to combatclimate change?
That may sound like a strange question, particularly to readers of The New York Times. Todayconservatives are the ones decidedly blocking any effort by the United States to curb its emissions of greenhouse gases.
And yet even as progressive environmentalists wring their hands at the G.O.P.’s climate change denial, there are biases on the left that stray just as far from the scientific consensus.
“The left is turning anti-science,” Marc Andreessen, the creator of Netscape who as a venture capitalist has become one of the most prominent thinkers of Silicon Valley, told me not long ago.
He was reflecting broadly about science and technology. His concerns ranged from liberals’ fear of genetically modified organisms to their mistrust of technology’s displacement of workers in some industries. “San Francisco is an interesting case,” he noted. “The left has become reactionary.”
Still, liberal biases may be most dangerous in the context of climate change, the most significant scientific and technological challenge of our time. For starters, they stand against the only technology with an established track record of generating electricity at scale while emitting virtually no greenhouse gases: nuclear power.
Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change
Are liberals impairing our ability to combatclimate change?
That may sound like a strange question, particularly to readers of The New York Times. Todayconservatives are the ones decidedly blocking any effort by the United States to curb its emissions of greenhouse gases.
And yet even as progressive environmentalists wring their hands at the G.O.P.’s climate change denial, there are biases on the left that stray just as far from the scientific consensus.
“The left is turning anti-science,” Marc Andreessen, the creator of Netscape who as a venture capitalist has become one of the most prominent thinkers of Silicon Valley, told me not long ago.
He was reflecting broadly about science and technology. His concerns ranged from liberals’ fear of genetically modified organisms to their mistrust of technology’s displacement of workers in some industries. “San Francisco is an interesting case,” he noted. “The left has become reactionary.”
Still, liberal biases may be most dangerous in the context of climate change, the most significant scientific and technological challenge of our time. For starters, they stand against the only technology with an established track record of generating electricity at scale while emitting virtually no greenhouse gases: nuclear power.
They rail against Keystone and which ensures more CO2 emissions being put into the atmosphere which they claim is the cause of global warming. Its a connect the dots fuckup with these people.
