{"id":16090,"date":"2012-04-02T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:31:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-02T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:31:56","slug":"environmentalist_wacko_climate_change_skeptics_are_sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/02\/environmentalist_wacko_climate_change_skeptics_are_sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalist Wacko: Climate Change Skeptics are Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR\/>RUSH: &#8220;If you don\u2019t believe in climate change, you must be sick.&#8221;  This from a professor, Oregon University, who likens skepticism of global warming to racism.  This again is not from an American paper.  This is from the UK Daily Mail.  &#8220;An Oregon University professor has controversially compared skepticism of global warming to racism.  Sociology and environmental studies professor &#8211;&#8221; Now, how do those two go together? <\/line><BR\/>&#8220;Sociology and environmental studies professor Kari Norgaard wrote a paper criticizing non-believers, suggesting that doubters have a &#8216;sickness.\u2019  The professor, who holds a BS in biology and a master\u2019s and PhD in sociology, argued that \u00c2\u2018cultural resistance\u00c2\u2019 to accepting humans as being responsible for climate change \u00c2\u2018must be recognized and treated\u00c2\u2019 as an aberrant sociological behavior.  Resolving skepticism about climate change alarmists, she added, is a challenge equitable to overcoming &#8216;racism or slavery in the US South.'&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_60973\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGlobalWarming585.jpg\"\/><BR\/>So if you doubt manmade global warming you are sick and the equivalent of a slave owner.  Now, before you start laughing at this, understand that this woman is teaching impressionable young skulls full of mush this stuff, and they\u2019re coming out of Oregon University believing this.  And if they\u2019re not challenged anywhere the rest of their life they\u2019re going to believe this everywhere they go, and some of these students end up at the Environmental Protection Agency or end up in a Democrat administration either at the statehouse level or at the presidential level, this is the kind of person that Obama would hire.  This the kind of person Obama has hired.  This is the kind of thinking that Obama believes and sponsors.  It\u2019s what he believes.  It\u2019s what he was taught.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>This is what has passed for science education for over ten years now, and it is not science.  It\u2019s pure politics.  It\u2019s pure politics disguised as science.  This professor, if you read whole story, this Kari Norgaard, sociology and environmental studies professor, wants everybody packed into the cities so that we\u2019re not strolling around nature and ruining it.  She wants it something seen only in pictures, with accredited photographers allowed to go there and take pictures of nature, but the mass population should not be allowed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Norgaard added that effective international action on climate change is being hampered by \u00c2\u2018weak\u00c2\u2019 responses to the crisis by both individuals and societies. &#8216;We must first be aware that this resistance is happening at all levels of our society.  If you have to push a heavy weight, it doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be moved, but in order to push it you had better know that you have something heavy and figure out how to move it &#8212; where to put the lever to shift the weight.'&#8221;  This is what passes for a PhD. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Norgaard last week attended the annual four-day \u00c2\u2018Planet Under Pressure\u00c2\u2019 international conference in London, where she presented her controversial paper to delegates on Wednesday. The scientists behind the event recently put out a statement calling for humans to be packed into denser cities so that the rest of the planet can be surrendered to mother nature. And fellow attendee Yale University professor Karen Seto told MSNBC: \u00c2\u2018We certainly don\u00c2\u2019t want them (humans) strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely [together].\u00c2\u2019&#8221;  Man is not part of nature, you see, we corrupt it, we pollute it, we destroy it. <\/p>\n<p>No, nobody stands up and says they\u2019re nuts.  There\u2019s nobody there that thinks they\u2019re nuts.  The media covering this doesn\u2019t think they\u2019re nuts.  The other attendees don\u2019t think they\u2019re nuts.  The hotel staff might think they\u2019re nuts, but they would rather have their money.  I\u2019m sure the waiters and waitresses running around might think it\u2019s absolutely insane what they\u2019re listening to, but they\u2019re holding out for tips so they\u2019re not gonna rip \u2019em.  This woman wouldn\u2019t know what to do with a serious scientific challenge to her political belief.  She would set out to destroy whoever was criticizing her or to impugn their character or what have you. <\/p>\n<p>I looked at this woman\u2019s bio.  I wanted to find out a little about her.  &#8220;I enjoy being outdoors, especially hiking, whitewater rafting, kayaking, skiing, both telemark and cross-country. Pretty much any excuse I can get to sleep on the ground.&#8221;  So it\u2019s okay for her to go out and enjoy nature, but not the rest of us.  It\u2019s fine for her because she\u2019s sensitive and understands, and she knows not to trample on the twigs or whatever it is she knows not to damage when she\u2019s out there.  Anyway, it all adds up to centralized command-and-control power, federal government getting bigger.  This woman would support that to deny people the right to go into whatever she thinks is nature.  Look, it\u2019s lunacy.  But she\u2019s teaching students.  They\u2019re a dime a dozen, these people.  They\u2019re all over the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: &#8220;If you don\u2019t believe in climate change, you must be sick.&#8221; This from a professor, Oregon University, who likens skepticism of global warming to racism. This again is not from an American paper. This is from the UK Daily Mail. &#8220;An Oregon University professor has controversially compared skepticism of global warming to racism. 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