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Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes milestone level; Randy Shannon; Progressive Democrats of America – PA 12th CD Chapter; May 10, 2013.
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From 2004 to 2008, the BCT published at least 17 letters from Mr. Shannon. I found none since 2008. You can find my critiques of those letters here, here, here, here, and here. In addition to what you learned about Mr. Shannon’s positions here and in his letters to the editor, consider the following exchange on a fellow BCR member’s Facebook wall (9/27/11).
Lefty #1: “Capitalism has to go. Merely taxing/regulating always fails in the end.”
Mr. Shannon: “Divide and conquer. Take down the crazy bankers first.”
The most recent previous Randy Shannon piece I critiqued was “The 7 Biggest Economic Lies.”
The article Mr. Shannon reproduced without attribution originally appeared in The Guardian (U.K.). In the interest of disclosure, I worked for an evil, multi-national oil company for nearly 24 years.
Mr. Shannon wrote the following intro to the subject piece.
“Have you ever almost wrecked your vehicle and gotten it under control at the last moment before disaster. I’ve had several close calls with bikes and cars.
“100% of scientists say that Earth is on the verge of a disaster. The corporate media is telling you there’s a controversy; there is none. CO2 levels are at 400ppm, a new milestone, and rapidly rising. If CO2 emissions are not curbed quickly now many of Earth’s major cities will be under water in our lifetime.
“Corporate-owned politicians must be replaced with brave souls who will stand up to oil, gas, coal, and Wall Street. Get organized or our children and grandchildren will curse us.”
It’s hard to believe Mr. Shannon doesn’t know his comment that “100% of scientists say that Earth is on the verge of a disaster” is 100% false. Since you can’t get “100% of scientists” (or anyone) to agree on anything, let alone something driven by politics, my guess is any scientist who doesn’t believe in the religion of manmade global warming is not really a scientist in Mr. Shannon’s eyes.
Would these be the same scientists who 30 years ago sounded the manmade global cooling alarm then almost overnight switched to manmade global warming? If doomsayers of the 1970s had been correct, we’d be having this discussion from the middle of an ice age. You may recall these folks claimed manmade particulate pollution was reflecting too much of the Sun’s energy back into space, thus reducing the Earth’s temperature. (Note: To explain why their predictions have not come to pass, today’s manmade global warming believers have resurrected the idea manmade particulate pollution is delaying the warming.) During the 1970s, publications like Newsweek (“The Cooling World”; April 28, 1975), Science Digest, The Christian Science Monitor, and Time (“The Cooling of America”; December 24, 1979) published articles about the impending “ice age.” CNN did an ice age piece as recently as the early 1990s. In the late 1960s, we were told we’d all starve to death within the next couple of decades due to overpopulation and an inability to produce enough food for everyone. In the mid- to late-1980s, we were told the oceans would be dead within 10 years. Remember when we were told DDT was the bane of mankind, only to have millions of people die from malaria that could have been prevented by spraying DDT to kill the malaria-carrying mosquitoes? (In 2007, after more than 40 years of DDT hysteria, the World Health Organization reversed its position. What new data changed the WHO’s mind? None. All of the DDT science has been well documented since the 1960s. How many million people died unnecessarily because of DDT consensus?) Are Mr. Shannon’s “scientists” the same people who told us the record-breaking hurricane season of 2005 was the “new normal?”
As for the comment about “the corporate media,” is Mr. Shannon serious? So far, most of the mainstream media believes as Mr. Shannon. Though admittedly an extreme example, a CNN talking head asked the following question about an asteroid that was about to pass close (about 17,000 miles) to Earth: “Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, global warming? Or is this just some meteoric occasion?” Locals can read the Beaver County Times (BCT) and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for examples. On the Sunday two days after Mr. Shannon’s post, the headline on page one of the BCT read, “NEVER, IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY HAVE CARBON LEVELS BEEN THIS HIGH.” The BCT website’s title for the article was “Experts: CO2 record illustrates ‘scary’ trend.” Heck, the BCT even has a brother “subsidiary” charged with torpedoing Marcellus gas production and other “non-green” energy sources. That said, some “brave souls” in the press are starting to notice the rhetoric doesn’t match what’s really happened and happening.
As for Mr. Shannon’s comment that “many of Earth’s major cities will be under water in our lifetime,” all I can say is “wow!”
Please read my piece entitled “Manmade Global Warming” for more info on this topic.
As for Mr. Shannon’s use of “corporate,” most (all?) leftsters use “corporation” as a synonym for “business,” though I’m sure they would disagree in public. As with all leftyspeak, it allows lefties to mislead people by implying one thing (big, evil company) but meaning another [all businesses (except those union-owned and labor unions), whether big or “mom & pop”]. FYI, a Pennsylvania corporation can be as small as one person. Mr. Shannon’s disdain of business seems odd to me. You see, Mr. Shannon himself works for an evil corporation and his wife owns and operates a daycare and preschool business which may be organized as an evil corporation for all I know.
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