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Title: Noam Chomsky - Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
Added: Jan 20, 2012
Author: ClimateProgressWorld
Duration: 21:50
Description:
In this sixth video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns "to try and convince the population that global warming is a liberal hoax." According to Chomsky, this massive public relations campaign has succeeded in leading a good portion of the population into doubting the human causes of global warming.Known for his criticism of the media, Chomsky doesn't hold back in this clip, laying blame on mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, which will run frontpage articles on what meteorologists think about global warming. "Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow," Chomsky says. "What do they have to say any more than your barber?" All this is part of the media's pursuit of "fabled objectivity."Of particular concern for Chomsky is the atmosphere of anger, fear and hostility that currently reigns in America. The public's hatred of Democrats, Republicans, big business and banks and the public's distrust of scientists all lead to general disregard for the findings of "pointy-headed elitists." The 2010 elections could be interpreted as a "death knell for the species" because most of the new Republicans in Congress are global warming deniers. "If this was happening in some small country," Chomsky concludes, "it wouldn't matter much. But when it's happening in the richest, most powerful country in the world, it's a danger to the survival of the species."http://www.thenation.com/video/158093/noam-chomsky-how-climate-change-became-liberal-hoaxNoam Chomsky - Peak Oil and a Changing Climate http://climateforce.net/2012/01/20/noam-chomsky-peak-oil-and-a-changing-climate/
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Youtube Comments: 54
johndaddyo444 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - aardvark1111 is right, and you're wrong NDPdEport... do you even know what the word "hypocrisy" means? There was nothing vague about aardvark1111's statements. You just can't drone on when you're limited to 500 characters... only wish that were true of Chomsky's babbling.
johndaddyo444 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - yes, in a sense my brain is a blank slate -- I call it having an open mind, able to look at new information and evaluate it properly. AGW data is lacking, so I started calling it pseudo-science, because "proof" for it only exists in computer models of climate, and not in reality. Political activists have chosen to conflate global warming with mankind's burning of fossil fuels. However, any astrophysicist will tell you warming occurred because of solar variation, not the puny activity of man.
johndaddyo444 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - why join a conversation by simply describing yourself? why not say something useful for others to read? i mean, i won't hold it against you for being a troll and a religious nut, but i'd prefer to learn from your vast experience and intelligence... unless, of course, you don't have any. what could a 25-yr-old intocake teach someone more than twice his age, who has studied radiation over the course of an entire working career? have you even worked at a real job yet, intocake?
johndaddyo444 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - hmmm, i suppose i am a sh*&y scientist in the sense that i regularly use a toilet, and i am an engineer (applied scientist) who has studied radiation for most of his working career. you don't suppose everything i've learned over the past 35 yrs could be political activist pseudo-science do you? uh-oh, maybe i'd better tell NASA that our equipment isn't going to work when it gets up into space...
chocobofarmer2021 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - @johndaddyo444 It looks like you refute everyone on here. It's not up for debate. So don't try to pull fiction based politics.
Zoidode Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - Oh my... Somebody is cranky.I am an activist perhaps... But I think you are awefully stuck in the past. The fossil fuel market will cease to exist within the next 20-30years. Sure a renewable energy system needs a mix of sources, storage and on demand (backup) supply. If you are so knowlegeable you could at least be so honest, that the fossil / nuclear system requires a mix of powerplants & backups aswell. Renewables are the future because they are more economically & more efficent...
10elozano Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - Global warming or not nobody likes to live in a polluted city. We can all agree that a clean environment, clean air, safe water, clean city is better than the alternative. Most people like streets with trees or close to nature as opposed to the concrete jungle.
lanceawatt Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - 'puny activity of man' undermines the influence of human activities. We are realeasing vast amounts of CO2 that the earth has stored over hundreds of millions of years quite relentlessly in the span of a couple of centuries. Given what we understand of green house gases, the notion that human affairs is misguided/Climate models in relation to emitions are coherrent with scientific theory in almost all cases. To disregard this data as pseudo science therefore is factually incorrect.
0FortyWinters0 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - "H2O has been proven NOT to provide positive feedback in a climate system only in short term weather"Wrong. Warmer atmospheres can contain more water vapour, a GHG. Very, very basic stuff."Did you know solar sunspot activity was DOUBLED at the end of the 20th century?"Incorrect. Sunspot numbers have remained steady for the past 150 years. Furthermore, sunspots are a fine-tuning knob at best."You have no "empirical evidence""We have."it was the Sun all along"Nope.
MrSkate4weed Says:
Apr 2, 2012 - well i've heard enough. when are we going to march to washington, handcuff our supposed representatives, declare their crimes, and shoot them all in their heads and reestablish a new government?
matharoofmaths Says:
Apr 2, 2012 - He didn't mention peak oil so the title is a little misleading!
bsimpson505 Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - Another reign of terror? Took the French a long time to fix theirs.
MrSkate4weed Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - what do you mean?
bsimpson505 Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - wiki/Reign_of_Terror
MrSkate4weed Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - nothing came up D:
MrSkate4weed Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - tell me what to search for
bsimpson505 Says:
Apr 10, 2012 - The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror that followed. It is instructive of what happens when a proletariat rises up against an entrenched bourgeoisie using violence.
sk8tafrnk Says:
Apr 13, 2012 - That wouldn't do anything. Our government has little power.It's the corporate institutions that are making all the decisions. They are really well organized and will be extremely difficult to dismantle.
homerco213 Says:
Apr 16, 2012 - I dare you not to learn something.
Viggetorr Says:
Apr 18, 2012 - Can anybody give med a link or something citing his first sentence, that the Chamber of Commerce and the petroleum industry has proclaimed that they're carrying out a campaign to convince the population the global warming is a liberal hoax?
Breakingchains954 Says:
Apr 26, 2012 - The Chomsker tearin shit up!
2787mh Says:
May 11, 2012 - you mean the way this system came into existance??? FYI that was a bourgeoisie revolution against monarchy. The proletariat of today did not yet exist because capitalism did not exist. As I said the bourgeoisie where behind that so they could create a more 'bourgeois democracy' and have there businesses in a politics they controlled.
euroqusling Says:
May 12, 2012 - google chomsky lies
S2Cents Says:
May 21, 2012 - I honestly can't find anything to disagree with Chomsky on here (as usual). I do try to.
johndaddyo444 Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - H2O has been proven NOT to provide positive feedback in a climate system -- only in short term weather. Ignorant climate scientists (it is a new field of science, after all) like James Hansen, the father of AGW pseudo-science, were dismissing long term variation in global atmospheric water vapor content in response to long term variation in solar radiation. Did you know solar sunspot activity was DOUBLED at the end of the 20th century? You have no "empirical evidence" -- it was the Sun all along