Fascinating article - thank you
J
Quoting George Marshall <[log in to unmask]>:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Marshall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 November 2013 16:39
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> Subject: RE: Its not just winter-Its a new ice age
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> Lots to be said on this...it is about a sense of threat to worldview, a
> generally low risk perception. The Angry White Man effect is a phenomenon in
> all social surveys such that they usually have to be treated separately so
> as not to bias the results- so my hunch is that it is partly about climate
> change and politics, but also about mortality and aging fear, libido,
> redirected status assertion and anxiety etc which all attaches to this issue
>
> A good article here
>
> http://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/anne-manne/2013/11/12/1384219999/confident
> -white-males-and-other-profiles-denialism
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Pavitt
> Sent: 15 November 2013 16:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Its not just winter-Its a new ice age
>
> Wiki the author
>
> "Alan Caruba (b. Oct. 9, 1937) is an American public relations
> counselor and freelance writer who is a frequent critic of
> environmentalism, Islam, homosexuality[1] and research on global
> warming."
>
> Despite his claim to be a science writer - he is just a 76 year old
> right wing PR guy. Same old same old.
>
> Why is is old white men (in general) that refuse to believe or even
> understand man-made climate change? Is it because they fear they have
> the most to lose?
>
> Examples?
> Monckton
> Lindzen
> Ball
> Lawson
> All of UKIP
>
> James
>
>
> Quoting KEVIN COLEMAN <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Article featured in Eurasia Review today. Pick the bones out of this one.
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> http://www.eurasiareview.com/15112013-just-winter-new-ice-age-oped/?utm_sour
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