"None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The scientific community knows it. Industry knows it. Governments know it. Even the United States military knows it. The Chief of the US Navy's Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat."
Being an on-air meteorologist is no guarantee of climate change acumen, certainly, but what does it say about your meteorological credentials when a Hollywood actor has a greater command of the science and therefore understands the urgency of the situation better than you?
Then again, Watts can't even distinguish between what an author has a fictional character in a work of parody say...
"Stepping back from the forest non issue, there is another aspect of the NY climate conference spin which I find disturbing – the continuous emphasis on the need for 'widespread collaboration' and 'unprecedented cooperation.' Every time I see a reference to how everyone has to allegedly strive to sacrifice their own interests, and work together for a common eco-goal, to save the world, I remember something the famous author Terry Pratchett once said;
"'Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.'"
...and the forest conservationism and eco-collaboration and cooperation goals he campaigns for in real life.
I ask this in all honesty and sincerity. Is there one climate change denier out there with any grey matter left between the ears? We can obviously scratch Anthony Watts off the list.
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