from OpinionJournal’s Poltical Diary 8/14/07 (part of Wall Street Journal)

Quote #1 on Newsweeks recent front page attack on those who doubt global warming-
Quote of the Day I
“Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. Last week’s Newsweek cover story on global warming is a sobering reminder. It’s an object lesson of how viewing the world as ‘good guys vs. bad guys’ can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story…. As we debate it, journalists should resist the temptation to portray global warming as a morality tale — as Newsweek did — in which anyone who questions its gravity or proposed solutions may be ridiculed as a fool, a crank or an industry stooge. Dissent is, or should be, the lifeblood of a free society” — Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson.

Quote #2 from same issue- from Cardinal Pell

Quote of the Day II
“Some of the hysteric and extreme claims about global warming are also a symptom of pagan emptiness, of Western fear when confronted by the immense and basically uncontrollable forces of nature. Belief in a benign God who is master of the universe has a steadying psychological effect, although it is no guarantee of Utopia, no guarantee that the continuing climate and geographic changes will be benign. In the past pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions” — Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, in a speech last year at Naples, Florida.

from HKO

I repeat I do not begin to understand the science of global warming. I do not deny that it exists, but I do have doubts about its danger, its cause, its priority, and the cure. When the language drifts into ‘nay sayers’ a ‘need to unite’ and accusations against ‘special interests’, then the arguments leave the realm of science and enter the political and the religious.

I also find it odd that the same ilk of people who rally around the cry of global warming resist the most effective cure- nuclear energy. No solution is without risk or cost.

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