"I listened to a remarkable bit of self-parody on National Public Radio on Tuesday: a moderator, a pair of experts, and some very earnest listeners trying to figure out how to most politely tell climate change skeptics they are dangerous idiots....To be clear, this program was not about debating the existence of climate change.
That was already settled for everyone whose head isn't stuck in a microwave.
This was about talking to pea-brains who do not fully believe drastic policy changes are required to combat climate change, and—this is important—having these "conversations" in a way that would not frighten or anger these stunted children.
That the entire segment presupposed that the panelists are so much smarter, wiser, more virtuous than skeptics—or "deniers," to borrow that creepy nomenclature—and thus, extremely condescending, seemed to escape everyone involved.
Let's dig in..."
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