Green Options » Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Glob http://greenoptions.com/tag/cool-it-the-skeptical-environmentalists-guide-to-glob Posts tagged 'Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Glob' Thu, 22 May 2008 15:28:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Calling Out Phony-Baloney George Will http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/22/calling-out-phony-baloney-george-will/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/22/calling-out-phony-baloney-george-will/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 15:28:27 +0000 Levi Novey http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/22/calling-out-phony-baloney-george-will/ George WillThere is a person who’s columns I regularly read, because I often find it fun to disagree with him. This person is George Will, conservative commentator and phony-baloney. I call him a phony-baloney, because it seems to fit with the old-fashioned bow tie he sometimes chooses to wear on television programs like Sunday’s political talk show on ABC, This Week. Why is he a phony-baloney? Well, most of all because he is one of the few members of the mainstream press who still perpetuates the myth that global warming might not exist, even though approximately 99% of the scientific community agrees that it is occuring and that it is most likely a phenomenon urged on by the human race. My primary case in point against phony-baloney, is his attack today in The Washington Post on the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.

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