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“Scientific truth” alone is not enough to sway public opinion. We must not stand by in silence while fossil-fuel climate change deniers confuse the public and dissuade our policy makers from taking the urgent actions needed to fight global warming. Join me in the climate war – for the sake of future generations and the planet.
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“How many climate denialist attackers could you fight off?” Quiz ©2012 Franke James
Writing and photo-illustrations by Franke James (see exceptions below)
Inspiration for this zany quiz came from the brilliant Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal. Quiz Programming: Billiam James
Wikimedia: Official photo Joe Barton
Wikimedia: Governor Rick Perry of Texas photo by Gage Skidmore, June 2011.
Wikimedia: Sarah Palin photo by Therealbs, 2008.
Assorted istockphotos: dinosaur, snake, zebra.
James Inhofe on Fox News Video:
Video clip shown is an excerpt from the 5 minute Fox News interview on 06/29/09:Sen. Inhofe On Global Warming: ‘This Thing Is Phony’ Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) repeats his claim that global warming is a hoax and calls for a criminal investigation into the EPA.
Quotes
In Alphabetical Order
John Christy: “Catastrophic warming doesn’t look like it’s in the future at all.”
Richard Lindzen: “If I’m wrong, we’ll know it in 50 years and can do something.” Source: New York Times
James Inhofe article: Guardian Headline: US Senate’s top climate sceptic accused of waging ‘McCarthyite witch-hunt’
James Inhofe Quote: “this 97% [of climate scientists accepting human-caused global warming], that doesn’t mean anything. I named literally thousands of scientists on the floor… and these were top people.” Source: Rachel Maddow show
Climate Scientist Hero “97% of climate experts agree humans are causing global warming.”
Rick Perry: “Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.” Source: IB Times
Sarah Palin Quote 1: “global warming studies…(is) a bunch of snake oil science.”
Sarah Palin Quote 2: “With the publication of damaging e-mails… the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point.”
Climate Scientist Hero “Investigations have cleared scientists of any wrongdoing in the media-hyped email incident.”
Sea Level graph and statistics: The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Sea-level prediction revised: By 2100, global sea-level is likely to rise at least twice as much as projected by Working Group 1 of the IPCC AR4, for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed 1 meter. The upper limit has been estimated as – 2 meters sea-level rise by 2100. Sea-level will continue to rise for centuries after global temperature have been stabilized and several meters of sea level rise must be expected over the next few centuries.