Tell Glenn Beck to stop spreading global warming lies via the petition below.
Glenn Beck is a genius to some, and, well,… the opposite to others. But no matter what ideas come to his head, he needs to refrain from telling lies. Several global warming “skeptics” have come around recently and are changing their perspective on this critical topic, but Glenn Beck is one of a handful of media personalities who continue deny the clear science and continues to spread false information about global warming.
On April 23, Glenn Beck said “Cap-and-trade is the biggest socialist scam, totally discredited climate change industry and zero warming for over a decade.” Discredited climate change industry? Hardly. Climate scientists and their work have been firmly backed up by hundreds of the leading scientists in the world and some of the most prestigious and critical academic bodies in the world.
It’s time for Glenn Beck to cool it with his unsubstantiated claims.
As the introduction to a petition on Change.org, sponsored by the League of Conservation Voters, puts it:
Even though we have all just sweated through the hottest six months and the hottest ten years on record, Glenn Beck is still on the air attacking global warming science and the solutions to address the issue. And despite recent polls showing 65 percent of Americans support a comprehensive energy and climate bill, Beck is still trying to discredit the very scientists who have proven global warming is a significant threat to the planet…. Let’s set the record straight with Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck needs to listen to his conservative colleagues and economists and stop his counterproductive anti-climate science ego trip.
To help put the pressure on Beck to stop spitting out lies about global warming, sign the petition on Change.org now.
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as an american i am offended by glen becks continual use of nazi remarks,,,as a jew I am threatened by his remarks,,,,the way he use these nazi remarks also shows he dosn’t even know who the nazie were and still are.have a nice day
John C: there are so many problems in your comment I don’t know where to start. first of all, there is clear scientific consensus on this topic, which is why even the most respected scientific bodies are expressing support for climate scientists and their findings.
but let’s take a quick look at things from a different angle real quick. the Earth was believed to be flat until the scientific evidence to the contrary became clearer and clearer and the “skeptics” became smaller and smaller in number (especially the scientific skeptics) and “scientific consensus” was reached. the same thing has occurred with global warming.. though, there are still “skeptics” funded by the coal and oil industry who purposefully spread bad science and all those who pick it up without understanding things well enough. anyway, here is more on the scientific consensus (http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm):
“97% of climate experts agree humans are causing global warming.
Science achieves a consensus when scientists stop arguing. When a question is first asked – like ‘what would happen if we put a load more CO2 in the atmosphere?’ – there may be many hypotheses about cause and effect. Over a period of time, each idea is tested and retested – the processes of the scientific method – because all scientists know that reputation and kudos go to those who find the right answer (and everyone else becomes an irrelevant footnote in the history of science). Nearly all hypotheses will fall by the wayside during this testing period, because only one is going to answer the question properly, without leaving all kinds of odd dangling bits that don’t quite add up. Bad theories are usually rather untidy.
“But the testing period must come to an end. Gradually, the focus of investigation narrows down to those avenues that continue to make sense, that still add up, and quite often a good theory will reveal additional answers, or make powerful predictions, that add substance to the theory. When Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev constructed his periodic table of elements, not only did he fit all known elements successfully, he predicted that elements we didn’t even know about would turn up later on – and they did!
“So a consensus in science is different from a political one. There is no vote. Scientists just give up arguing because the sheer weight of consistent evidence is too compelling, the tide too strong to swim against any longer. Scientists change their minds on the basis of the evidence, and a consensus emerges over time. Not only do scientists stop arguing, they also start relying on each other’s work. All science depends on that which precedes it, and when one scientist builds on the work of another, he acknowledges the work of others through citations. The work that forms the foundation of climate change science is cited with great frequency by many other scientists, demonstrating that the theory is widely accepted – and relied upon.
“In the scientific field of climate studies – which is informed by many different disciplines – the consensus is demonstrated by the number of scientists who have stopped arguing about what is causing climate change – and that’s nearly all of them. Several studies confirm that “…the debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes”. (Doran 2009). In other words, more than 95% of scientists working in the disciplines contributing to studies of our climate, accept that climate change is almost certainly being caused by human activities.
“We should also consider official scientific bodies and what they think about climate change. There are no national or major scientific institutions anywhere in the world that dispute the theory of anthropogenic climate change. Not one.
“In the field of climate science, the consensus is unequivocal: human activities are causing climate change.”
And regarding CO2’s effect on climate, your statement is just plain false again. here’s more on the topic from a recent article: http://planetsave.com/2011/01/03/physical-chemist-global-warming-as-the-result-of-carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-is-totally-undeniable/
At the end of the day, there is nothing wrong with being more mindful about how we use earth’s limited resources, whether you are a realist, or a fucking idiot.
nice. a broad mind & open arms. i think it is common when your arms don’t extend beyond your family that your eyes can’t see beyond tomorrow
I don’t care how many scientists don’t agree with climate change,I care about what the evidence is. What does geology,geophysics,or professional egineering have to do with climatology? Scienists don’t number in the thousands or tens of thousands. They number in the millions, thus rendering your list insignificant.Calling people names doesn’t help your case. It shows your an ignorant bigot.