So, Mr. Frishberg must be some kind of sooper scientist to be the Lightbringer's Senior Climate Adviser?
Nope - he is a political hack just like the rest of them.
From his Linkedin page:
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All hat and no cattle. What did Mr. Frishberg do to catch my attention? He sent out this email:
Friend —
It’s tough out there for climate change deniers.
One by one, literally every argument and excuse they’ve been using for years is being proven false.
Then cite some of them please.
They’re still grasping at myths and conspiracy theories, but deniers are on the run.
No we are not - our numbers grow greater each year and our voices stronger. The earth has been cooling over the last 18 years. Where is this warming you speak of?
Let’s keep them there — join the team that’s calling out climate change deniers.
In reality, the debate on the basics is over.
Not only do 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and man-made, but new reports are showing climate and extreme weather impacts are affecting us right now.
This 97% number came from one scientist and was totally debunked a few weeks after it was published. This number fits your narrative so you use it but it does not fit the facts which you choose to ignore.
Droughts, floods, wildfires, and storms are hitting communities from California to the East Coast, and we’re already spending hundreds of billions on climate-related disaster relief — no one is denying that.
It's called the weather - the high pressure that is causing the cold in the Northeast and the warmth and moisture in the Northwest is something that happens every fifty years or so - not common but not rare either. Nothing to do with any warming.
Instead, what you hear from climate change deniers are mostly excuses for not taking action. Some have hidden behind foreign countries, saying America can’t or shouldn’t lead on climate until someone else goes first.
Why should we spend all this money on something that does not exist and would actually be beneficial if it did - more people die from cold than from heat. More CO2 = higher crop yields.
Let’s set aside for a minute that this isn’t actually how we solve global problems. The fact is, President Obama is leading internationally through agreements with China and India to cut carbon pollution and expand the use of clean energy. (So there goes that denier talking point…)
And China and India are looking him right in the face and lying to him - China has not slowed down one bit, neither has India. We should be emulating these nations and not giving away a chunk of our own sovereignty to them.
Another thing you might hear from a denier is that we simply can’t get serious about cutting carbon pollution without destroying the economy. That’s just false. For example, the climate and public health benefits from President Obama’s Clean Power Plan outweigh the costs by at least six times.
Maybe deniers doubt we have the will and ingenuity to take such a huge problem on. Well, the American people are proving them wrong: Since 2009, we’ve increased solar power ten-fold and tripled wind power. Hundreds of thousands of Americans work in clean energy today.
So much of our tax dollars spent on this solar and wind and they contribute how much to our grid? Less than 2% As for the clean energy jobs - the solar panels are made in China, the wind turbines are made in Germany (Siemens) or Holland (Vestax). What local jobs there are are subsidized with our own money.
The arguments from deniers are getting more and more ludicrous.
We have the facts on our side — and we have to drive that message home. Because as long as deniers and polluters are blocking progress, we’re not doing all we can to combat climate change.
You see the writing on the wall and are getting desperate to conserve your political power. You are a corrupt statist. Your ideas are so obviously great you want to make them mandatory for all of us.
Say you’ll help take them to task — join the team that’s calling out climate change deniers:
http://my.barackobama.com/Expose-Climate-Change-Deniers
Thanks,
Ivan
Ivan Frishberg
Senior Climate Adviser
Organizing for Action
Putz - Mr. Frishberg is a perfect example of what is so wrong in the political class these days. Clueless, driven by narrative instead of facts and out of touch with We the People...
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