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• Ellin Callvis says:

  October 19, 2012 at 2:11 am

  I have enjoyed [not!] some very intense moments of challenging a denialist who happens to be an oil company executive. He gets very excited at times but he is never stuck for want of a whole whack of technical data – such as reasons why the coal-fired power plants simply HAVE to keep running until 2060 – so they “can run out their useful lives” he says. Gee, what about the useful lives of entire species? Living things cannot be re-built eh, extinctions means gone, bye bye to that genetic strain.

  I don’t bother pushing him too hard – a wise saying is that “nobody changes their mind during an argument” and so I end our “discussion” when his anger starts to show. His anger is not because I am getting through to him, it is because he is being challenged at all – I have learned a lot about the minds of our “Elites and Corporate Ruling Class” – they cannot tolerate dissent.

  Sorry, this is getting long, but I just want to add that I have seen how the oilpeople will pass reading material to their peers, they sign them and make a big deal out of it, but in the end THAT IS ALL THEY READ!! – stuff from other denialists. No wonder he didn’t seem to know that CO2 causes ocean acidification [all he could say was “well it would be a lot worse if we had not reduced our acidic emissions in the 1980s” – which has little to do with the CO2-ocean acidity, from what I can tell].

  Ahh, to be rich and powerful enough to be able to live in denial…

• Alison says:

  June 2, 2013 at 12:53 am

  This is awesome. You are a true hero. It is not easy or pleasant standing up to Climate Denialists. Thank you Franke for doing this work.

• Gilbert O'Sughrue says:

  June 9, 2013 at 5:41 am

  It’s terrible to hear the Canadian government has been taken over by extremists. Thanks for fighting back Franke!

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