Here's what he said:
<blockquote>The emphasis on carbon, one of the most common elements in life on this planet, as the main bad guy is absurd and scary</blockquote>
I'm saying it's scary that this person can make the absurd statement that climate scientists are making the "common element carbon" the bad guy, when they're really talking about a <i>compound</i> of carbon, namely CO2, which is quite scarce in the atmosphere, except that humans have started pumping it out in ever more climatologically significant amounts in recent decades.
<blockquote>What about carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide (remember acid rain?), nitrogen oxide, ozone, and hydrocarbons. All of these gases released in auto emissions and yet we don't even talk about these threats to the environment anymore. </blockquote>
And once again, just because climate scientists are most concerned with the overarching challenge of global warming, that doesn't mean they arent concerned about other environmental issues. For example, in case you missed it, James Hanson got arrested while protesting mountaintop-removal coal mining recently.
On the other hand, if we don't deal with global warming effectively, and soon, there just might not be enough of us left to produce much more of that other bad stuff:
http://tinyurl.com/m5662o
Then find out if they realize NRT has a FAILURE RATE of 98.4% on long term (1 year of longer) (source: British Medical Journal, April 2009) quitting...
Most people who lose weight have a tough time keeping it off, too. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
...or that Nicorette causes extreme hair loss, skin lesions and high blood pressure or that it's more addictive than the cigarettes ever were (source: askapatient.com).
More addictive than cigarettes? If you can't stop smoking without Nicorette or can't stop Nicorette without smoking, how can you say Nicorette is "more addictive than cigarettes ever were"?
Anyway, here's the first comment on Nicorette from askapatient.com:
I have lost more than 60% of my hair and have always had healthy teeth. Suddenly I have 2 teeth that have to be replaced with implants due to acid erosion and fractures. I am totally convinced that the gum has caused all.
There are lots more like that. Now, suppose somebody substituted "Marlboros" for "Nicorette" and "lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema" for hair and tooth loss. Say you worked for Philip Morris. Would you acknowledge that those postings constituted credible evidence?
Or If Nicorette is really that bad, that's just all the more reason not to start smoking in the first place, so you won't have to resort to Nicorette to quit.
...Or that Winston Cup no longer exists in NASCAR but Nicorette sponsors a NASCAR team.
Which probably just means that fewer impressionable kids will be enticed to start smoking and wind up dying early from smoking-related diseases. What a tragedy. Besides, if you're that attached to NASCAR you should be glad anyone at all is willing to sponsor it.
Isn't nicotine, nicotine?
Gosh, what an epiphany! Even though you suck the nicotine into your lungs with a bunch of heated toxic combustion products instead of absorbing it from chewing gum. Who knew?
Here are a couple of books that I have gotten a lot out of:
Propaganda--Edward Bernays (One of the fathers of the field)
The Father of Spin--Bio on Bernays, by Larry Nye
PR! A Social History of Spin---by Stewart Ewen (a lot of Ewen's work is related to PR in some way, so check out some of his other stuff)
"The industry backlash... are taking place." It are?
Most people who lose weight have a tough time keeping it off, too. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
More addictive than cigarettes? If you can't stop smoking without Nicorette or can't stop Nicorette without smoking, how can you say Nicorette is "more addictive than cigarettes ever were"?
Anyway, here's the first comment on Nicorette from askapatient.com:
There are lots more like that. Now, suppose somebody substituted "Marlboros" for "Nicorette" and "lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema" for hair and tooth loss. Say you worked for Philip Morris. Would you acknowledge that those postings constituted credible evidence?
Or If Nicorette is really that bad, that's just all the more reason not to start smoking in the first place, so you won't have to resort to Nicorette to quit.
Which probably just means that fewer impressionable kids will be enticed to start smoking and wind up dying early from smoking-related diseases. What a tragedy. Besides, if you're that attached to NASCAR you should be glad anyone at all is willing to sponsor it.
Gosh, what an epiphany! Even though you suck the nicotine into your lungs with a bunch of heated toxic combustion products instead of absorbing it from chewing gum. Who knew?
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