Global Warming and an Idiot

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-02-03 11:25:00 UTC
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Yes, despite my periodic requests in comment threads that commenters not resort to calling each other names, I am calling someone an idiot. But with good reason, I swear. The individual upon whom this dishonor is bestowed is, actually, the same individual who happily alerted us to "crop duster babes" a couple months ago. But this post from him involved even fewer brain cells than that one.

First, there is his well-researched, brilliant response to global warming: "Yeah, right." Wow. Now I'm convinced that global warming isn't real. Thank you, sir.

Next, there is his response to the well-established fact that animal agriculture is contributing massively to greenhouse gases, more than all the world's transportation combined: "It’s time to get these folks some straight jackets and get them back on their medication." And "these folks," of course, are world-renowned, super-intelligent scientists who've studied this stuff night and day. But I'm sure this dude knows more than they do.

But wait--he knows how to discredit one of these scientists! While they were explaining why changing your diet (i.e., your consumption of animals) is one of the most effective changes you can make to reduce your contribution to global warming, the group that this blogger is trying to take down dared to quote scientist Dr. James Hansen (who is known for speaking out, against orders, in 2005-06 about the very real dangers and causes of global warming and for revealing that scientific reports on global warming were being censored by the Bush administration). And why does climate change expert James Hansen's opinion mean nothing? Because he's just "some idiotic NASA scientist." Well, yes, that discredits him entirely.

People who deny that animal agriculture is contributing a significant and dangerous level of greenhouse gases anger me enormously. People who deny that global warming is real infuriate me. People who deny all this without a shred of evidence, when there is a mountain of evidence proving them wrong, and instead resort to just insisting that the people with science on their side are "drinking some weird koolaid," make me want to track them down and drop-kick them.

Next post: Now that I've gotten that out of my system, we talk about the actual video and just-launched campaign to which I'm grateful to Mr. Anti-Science for directing me.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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