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Published
on May 2, 2016
Jimmy takes a moment to talk about climate change and the confusing
political argument that has emerged around it. NASA says that 97
percent of climate scientists agree that the warming we are
experiencing is very likely due to human activity - but some
politicians still want us to believe it’s all a hoax. So we enlisted
the help of real climate scientists to clear some things up for us.
- I recently watched ESPN's Kevin Cowherd
give
pretty much the very same (scripted?) speech. I was thinking, YTF is this
a topic for a sports show?
 I also recently ran across HBO's 'Confirmation;'
a re-work of the Clarance Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, now turned on their
head. Post hearings polls, across all demographics, showed that a
number approaching 80% thought Anita Hill was a
liar. Two years later, after a spate of television shows (like Golden
Girls) made her a heroine, those polls almost reversed. - A 2009 Rasmussen poll found that 40
percent of young Americans view The Daily Show and Colbert's
Report as their news source.
- My kids, and I'll bet yours, are Face Book
Tweeters, which worlds exclude any ideas that counter the herd
mentality.
In my view, we are as a nation irrevocably
cleaved. Critical thinking? Forget about it. I don't have a
solution that would be at all acceptable. Our night of the
long knives is at least 50 years overdue. Call me grumpy.
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