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Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE | PBS
53 mins.
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Transcript | Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE | PBS
Like what these clowns say is 'just' 'the Theory evolution', this is just another political position for them.
Pandering to Red State politicos.
This is like a sporting event for low brows.
Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE | PBS
53 mins.
Transcript:
Transcript | Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE | PBS
Like what these clowns say is 'just' 'the Theory evolution', this is just another political position for them.
Pandering to Red State politicos.
This is like a sporting event for low brows.
MYRON EBELL: There are holdouts among the urban bicoastal elite, but I think we’ve won the debate with the American people in the heartland, the people who get their hands dirty, people who dig up stuff, grow stuff and make stuff for a living, people who have a closer relationship to tangible reality, to stuff.
We need to keep banging away on the science—
EA PARTY SPEAKER: It gives me great pleasure to welcome Lord Monckton!
JOHN HOCKENBERRY: Introduced like a professional wrestler, Christopher Monckton is a former British journalist who admits he has no scientific qualifications.
CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON, Competitive Enterprise Institute: Now we are met on a great battlefield of a new civil war!
JOHN HOCKENBERRY: But here, whipping up the crowd is his indisputable expertise.
CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON: —know that in American-speak, you have a word for global warming. Can someone tell me what it is?
CROWD: Bull-[expletive deleted]!
CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON: All together! Global warming is?
CROWD: Bull-[expletive deleted]!
The fact:OHN HOCKENBERRY: [voice-over]This is a community of skeptics. At the AFP rally, I ran into Myron Ebell, a supportive attendee and a speaker.
[on camera] Why are you here?
MYRON EBELL: Well, these are the grass roots that, you know, support our side. This is essentially a more organized form of a Tea Party group, right? A better funded.
JOHN HOCKENBERRY: Against the backdrop of all the pressure from skeptic groups, Congress ordered a comprehensive review of climate change research by the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings came back even stronger on human-caused climate change, and a subsequent study showed 97% of active climate scientists agreed.
[on camera] What’s settled here on climate change?
RALPH CICERONE, Pres., National Academy of Sciences: Virtually every place on earth is warming up. And people who have tried to go back and scrub the data — like, is there a mistake with the way they’re making these measurements — they’ve all concluded, no, the people who are doing this work at the key places around the world are agreeing with each other.
JOHN HOCKENBERRY: What’s the bottom line, though, on human-caused global warming? I raise my hand in a high school science class and you’re the teacher. Are humans causing the global warming we’re seeing? What’s your answer?
RALPH CICERONE: Mostly. Yeah. Scientists are trying to shoot it down all the time, and in years and years and years, nobody’s been able to. So at some point, you have to say maybe it’s right.
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