Haha, it takes a special type of person to fall for such obvious smears, when they are so obviously made up whole cloth.
How on Earth did "Slashdot, News for Nerds" turn into this? Maybe I'm getting old, but I used to remember Slashdot being the place to go to find interesting and insightful information about science. The comments used to be the best part of Slashdot. They almost always provided interesting additional information on a topic above and beyond what was provided by the articles.
But now we get childish anti-science potshots making it up to score 5, Informative? What the heck happened? Has Slashdot been taken over by commenting shrills paid by the Koch brothers? Or did all the intelligent Slashdotters simply leave long ago? If so, could someone please tell me where they went?
I doubt that very much. Your argument sounds nice but logically it makes no sense. The "conservatives" would have wanted to make it sound MORE scary, not less. Since largely speaking it was the liberals, not the conservatives, who were pushing the "global warming" agenda, it would only make sense that THEY were behind the change to make it "less scary" to the public.
Huh? That makes no sense! The conservatives are the ones trying to downplay global warming. They use the following arguments (depending on which one suites them at the moment):
Trying to make global warming less scary is just part of #2 on that list. Frank Luntz even admits that what they were trying to do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming
I can't tell if you're for real or just a troll. Your original question sounds like you're asking an honest question, yet all your subsequent responses appear to show that your mind is made up on the subject and you're not looking for answers.
That's not how I remember it. Climate change was put forward by the greenies because the results were not agreeing with the predictions.
Then you're remembering it wrong.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming
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