How to Boil A Frog presents Stephen Schneider

[MsTarantala]

Brilliant speaker

[luke666808g]

oh noes don't show this to Alex Jones, "the FEDS are gunna come in your house and take your air conditioner away! It's EUGENICS!!! They want to kill all the elderly in the next heat wave!!!"

[duck24x]

There was never any "ice age scare" in the 1970s by peer-reviewed journals in climatology. The number of shitheads who repeat the same GW-denial myths have ZERO mental ability to read the original peer-reviewed articles.

Anyone who votes for Democrats or Republicans should be imprisoned for life for ANY pollution they cause - eating meat - because they take away freedom of pot smokers, porn watchers, & abortion.

[nyer82]

Back when Stephen was concerned about cooling he said that the cure could be worse than the disease.

"Can we do these things? Yes. But will they make things better? I'm not sure. We can't predict with any certainty what's happening to our own climatic future. How can we come along and intervene then in that ignorance? You could melt the icecaps. What would that do to the coastal cities? The cure could be worse than the disease. Would that better or worse than the risk of an ice age?"

[kkob]

@nyer82 First, cite your source. Second, understand that intelligent people actually learn, take in new info and adjust accordingly. Stupid people think learning equals weakness. Decontextualizing quotes is a weak man's way of lying.l

[opaz79]

he will lie for his ideology, he will say anything to benefit his ideology and he will defend his right to lie, lie and lie by claiming that everyone lies just as much as he does.

[bluetwinky]

Ah the same old out of context miss -quotes. When if you look in the context of the interview by quoting the man as you have done you turn his meaning on its head.

The line immediatly following the last line of wilbert1755's quote is:

"I hope that means being both."

[nyer82]

@bluetwinky Obviously the man has not done both.

[Merany1]

This guy is a blatant liar.

[wilbert1755]

"To capture the public imagination,

we have to offer up some scary scenarios,

make simplified dramatic statements

and little mention of any doubts one might have.

Each of us has to decide the right balance

between being effective,

and being honest."

- Leading greenhouse advocate, Dr Stephen Schneider

( in interview for "Discover" magagzine, Oct 1989)

[cciemail]

He's right. To get a message thru in the TV & radio media, you have to condense everything down to a good sound bite. And unfortunately TV is where most people get their news. Relatively few people read the magazine article.

[wilbert1755]

During the Ice Age Scare of the 1970s. He published a book titled "The Genesis Strategy" at this time, warning of the coming `Ice Age'.

In 1971, Schneider claimed that an 800% increase in CO2 would be needed to raise global temperature by +2 deg.

[cciemail]

look up "global dimming"