Discussion for article #225101
It’s always funny, until the Supreme Court declares that carbon dioxide is a person and can have it’s own PAC and not pay for birth control.
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Very misleading title. I thought he was going to say the Holocaust was also a hoax, which he didn’t. Clearly not defending his CO2 denialism, but he didn’t compare it to the holocaust.
Speaking of climate (ok, weather), there’s definitely some fog settled in around this guy’s brain.
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I think it’s more likely that CO2 will be declared protected speech, therefore EPA restrictions are a violation of corporate persons’ First Amendment rights.
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Proof that you don’t have to be particularly smart to be an Ivy League professor. Who did he sleep with in order to get that job? Well, apart from Exxon Mobil.
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kind of person who would blow a goat for a paycheck.
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Well, that’s one way to get attention. What’s the old adage about any publicity being good publicity? This’ll put him and his 2-yr college on the map!
As soon as I read the headline I guessed that money is involved.
“Co-host Joe Kernen first quizzed Happer, a Princeton University professor and chairman of the Marshall Institute, on on (sic) whether money given to the Marshall Institute by Exxon Mobil created a conflict of interest.”
I guess there really is a conspiracy of scientists faking their global-warming data to protect research funding.
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The headline is not really misleading, as headlines go: it says William Happer compared “Climate Change ‘Hype’ To The Holocaust.”
His idiotic & quite convoluted quote reads: “You know, I get called a denier. And anyone who objects to all of the hype gets called a denier. That’s supposed to make me a Holocaust denier. I’m getting tired of that,” Happer responded. “The comment I made was, the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler. Carbon dioxide is actually a
benefit to the world, and so were the Jews.”
OK, a more accurate headline would have been: “Idiotic Princeton Professor Says Demonizing Carbon Dioxide Just Like the Holocaust.”
Dan
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If he’s that excited about the benefits of carbon dioxide, maybe he should use it to replace the air in his house. The right wingers who go on and on about the lack of free speech in education must not know about this loony at Princeton or John Yoo at Berkeley.
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Makes as much sense as claiming that Democrats demonize water simply because we don’t wish to drown in a flood.
But on the larger matter, all of these continual references to Hitler, Nazis, fascism, brownshirts, and the Holocaust serve no purpose other than to use disingenuous fear-mongering tactics to try to sway the public to your point of view.
It’s right out of the Atwater-Rove playbook on how to smear your opponents (or an opposing point of view) when you have nothing legitimate to say.
The terms “fascist” and “Nazi” get thrown around far too loosely by people at both ends of the political spectrum, and it insults the memory of those that had to live through (or died because of) the policies of a truly fascist regime.
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Sounds just like Junior:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in… to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
– George W. Bush, May 24, 2005
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/260505newbushism.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/260505bushism.mp3
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“…my line of work…”
Work?
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SO he believes in climate change, unless it’s Jewish, and has never received any money, unless it was from Exxon, and maybe not even then.
OK then.
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Random thought: Is it just me or does his face seem to be melting?
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I guess CNBC found the denialist “expert” they’ve been shopping for.
Also physics ≠ climate science, but whatever.
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Funny yeah, but this is the kind of crap that people are beginning to believe. We’re not going to like food and water shortages, Louisiana summers ALL OVER THE FRICKIN’ CONTINENT, and no game for hunters or fishing people. And it will be too late.
Way to fuggin’ go, Corporate America. You’ll be the absolute monarchs of ruin.
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He looked upon the contents of the Ark!
But don’t worry. We have top men on it.
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