CLIMATE MCCARTHYISM
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 10:12
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...claims another victim.
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Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter - an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC - has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming.
Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional candidate, has impeccably liberal credentials. As the founder of Demilitarization for Democracy he has campaigned against US backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa, against US military support for dictators and against anti-personnel landmines. But none of this was enough to spare him the wrath of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) when he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science."
Two days later, he was sacked by email. The IPS said: "We would like to inform you that we are terminating your position as an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies...Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of US policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours."
In the WSJ OpEd entitled Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change, Rossiter argued that Africans should benefit from the same mixed energy policy as Americans rather than being denied access to fossil fuels on spurious environmental grounds by green activists. He wrote: "The left wants to stop industrialization - even if the hypothesis of catastrophic, man-made global warming is false."
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/13/Climate-McCarthyi
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Former Democrat congressional candidate.
Thinks Africa should benefit from the same cheap energy which helped more advanced nations elevate their standard of living.
( Just for those keeping score at home. )
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So you're NOT in favor of free markets and at-will employment?
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So you're NOT in favor of free markets and at-will employment?
Modern day denial of service of blacks @ the lunch counter. You were cool with the good ole days, huh?
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Rappy, if the shoe were on the other foot... if someone had been fired BECAUSE OF their activism to prevent GW, you'd be all happy about it. Your ethics are extremely convenient. Please don't think that any of us believe that you have an interest in scientific integrity or freedom of speech.
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THUGR is a know-nothing militarist.
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Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact. But writing an opinion piece which is skeptical ,of AGW , is different. And by more than a little.
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Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact.
No, see, son, this is teaching science as science.
Your persecution complex is fuckin' adorable, though.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov
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It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.
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It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.
Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods."
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.
Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods."
And this is what passes off as the " intelligent " side of the debate.
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It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.
Teaching science is bigotry....
A white guy, saying his refusal to acknowledge overwhelming evidence... is the same as discrimination against blacks...
I am amazed that after all this time, you always manage to top the last utterly idiotic thing you said with something even dumber.
Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov
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