{"id":22041,"date":"2014-02-26T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22041"},"modified":"2014-02-26T23:29:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T04:29:30","slug":"the-co-founder-of-greenpeace-has-forgotten-the-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22041","title":{"rendered":"The Co-Founder Of Greenpeace Has Forgotten The Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/02\/25\/greenpeace-co-founder-no-scientific-evidence-of-man-made-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story about a Senate <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hearing (law)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hearing_%28law%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Committee hearing<\/a> on Tuesday. Greenpeace co-founder <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patrick Moore\" href=\"http:\/\/sirpatrickmoore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Patrick Moore<\/a> was testifying.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Moore argued that the current argument that the burning of fossil fuels is driving <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global warming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">global warming<\/a> over the past century lacks scientific evidence. He added that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Earth<\/a> is in an unusually cold period and some warming would be a good thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThere is no <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scientific evidence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">scientific proof<\/a> that human emissions of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Carbon dioxide\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_dioxide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">carbon dioxide<\/a> (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the past 100 years,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&amp;FileStore_id=415b9cde-e664-4628-8fb5-ae3951197d03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Moore\u2019s prepared testimony<\/a>. \u201cToday, we live in an unusually cold period in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Timeline of evolutionary history of life\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_evolutionary_history_of_life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">history of life<\/a> on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Human\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">humans<\/a> and the majority of other species.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;Moore argued that the current argument that the burning of fossil fuels is driving global warming over the past century lacks scientific evidence. He added that the Earth is in an unusually cold period and some warming would be a good thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThere is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the past 100 years,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&amp;FileStore_id=415b9cde-e664-4628-8fb5-ae3951197d03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Moore\u2019s prepared testimony<\/a>. \u201cToday, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I, for one, have always been in favor of slight global warming. It is encouraging to me to know that I can now use hairspray, air conditioning, and my <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hair dryer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hair_dryer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">blow dryer<\/a> without endangering the planet. However, on a serious note, it is the responsibility of all of us to do what we can within reason to keep our planet clean.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=0041523a-50a9-4c92-a12e-0e9df2b752b1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Daily Caller posted a story about a Senate Committee hearing on Tuesday. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore was testifying. 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