Global warming realists compared to (what else) defenders of slavery!

10.28.10, "NY Times: Hey, this professor makes a good point when he compares global warming skeptics to defenders of slavery!" Washington Examiner, commentary, Hemingway

"I know, I know —environmentalists employ EXTREME rhetoric to shock Americans out of their complacency. Is it Thursday already? Anyway, you’re losing the global warming debate rather badly in the court of public opinion, so how can you win people over? I know! Let’s kill some kids. Wait, that didn’t work?

• Let’s try comparing global warming skeptics to proponents of slavery:

"The American public is still mired in doubt about the science and the economics of climate change, he said, but is ready for the kind of social shift that eventually brought success to the

• abolition movement of the 18th and 19th centuries.

“Just as few people saw a moral problem with slavery in the 18th century, few people in the 21st century see a moral problem with the burning of fossil fuels,” Professor [Andrew] Hoffman [of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources] said.

• “Will people in 100 years look at us with the same incomprehension we feel toward 18th-century defenders of slavery?”

I don’t know what’s more offensive, the idea that skepticism of global warming is a moral injustice on par with slavery,

• or the fact that those people pushing global warming think of themselves in such incredibly self-righteous terms where

• they’re the ones saving humanity from itself.

If Environmentalists wonder why their credibility is shot,

perhaps they should stop with the doomsday propaganda and come up with a better solution to the global warming problem than making my monthly utility bills cost more than the gross national product of Burkina Faso."

• And they talk about morality. ed.