Comments for "John Stossel vs Robert Kennedy on Global Warming" Video at VideoSift.com

By CaptWillard

CaptWillard (http://www.videosift.com/member/CaptWillard) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:58:09 -0800

Good God, John Stossel is a douchebag! I will neither upvote or downvote this. Did I mention John Stossel is a douchebag? It never hurts to mention it more than once. Or a million times.

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:48:04 -0800

"Stossel" reminds me of "strudel"

mmmm...pastries.

By rougy

rougy (http://www.videosift.com/member/rougy) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:09:07 -0800

Stossel is a moron.

I think he's one of the reasons a similar moron, Glenn Beck, ever had a chance to make it to the little screen.

Stossel said "Greenland was called green land for a reason." This is a perfect example of his imbecility.

The real reason was because Eric the Red named it "Greenland" in order to attract settlers.

Stossel, a self-proclaimed consumer activist who defends corporations, is the very essense of corporate coruption influencing the debate, and a living oxymoron. He has no problems telling a lie, because, like most conservatives, he could not win any argument if he didn't.

By dystopianfuturetoday

dystopianfuturetoday (http://dft.videosift.com) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:44:04 -0800

Why politicos? Why not have scientists debate?.... Oh yeah, I forgot, because there is no debate.

By snoozedoctor

snoozedoctor (http://www.videosift.com/member/snoozedoctor) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:23:52 -0800

Greenland, while never a tropical paradise, was considerably more temperate when the Vikings settled there. They starved when the little ice age hit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age) and they lacked the skill or willingness to adopt the Inuit's survival skills.
Because the earth has experienced drastic global temperature changes in the past doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about polluting the atmosphere. I don't understand why people get totally bent out of shape about a little water pollution, and don't seem to care when manufacturing plants spew stuff into the air.
While the US is still the overall world leader in CO2 emissions, China is a much worse offender based on national production, and will become the greatest future problem, unless something is done. How you rein them in, I don't know.

By Lethin

Lethin (http://www.videosift.com/member/Lethin) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:50:55 -0800

i'm on the "Better safe then sorry" side of things, if we're wrong about it we live. if we're right and do nothing, we're dead...

By Issykitty

Issykitty (http://issykitty.videosift.com) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:04:38 -0800

upvote for the members' comments. I don't know if I could otherwise...
Stossel makes me wanna hurl.

By MycroftHomlz

MycroftHomlz (http://www.videosift.com/member/MycroftHomlz) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:06:47 -0800

Stossel was pretty contained with his douchebaggery. He didn't interrupt nearly as often as I have seen him do. He did break out the nonsequitor and hyperbole:

"Greenland was called greenland for a reason"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

Y2K lumping with the killer bees and the like is stupid.

It seems the media is picking up on the theme...
http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2006/06/30/john-stossell-is-a-douchebag/

And we shouldn't forget my greatest sifttalk post of all time-
http://politics.videosift.com/talk/John-Stossel-is-a-Douche-Bag

By bamdrew

bamdrew (http://www.videosift.com/member/bamdrew) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:01:36 -0700

In the late 90's there was still an inkling of debate over how and why climate change was occurring so rapidly.

debate is over. debate is over. debate is over.

The story is more complicated now, as we have a better understanding of the impact of 'global dimming' which has essentially masked the effects of 'greenhouse gases', which models always predicted should have be more potent. The story now is how do we, on a global scale, maintain this balance while removing ourselves from a dependence on burning sequestered carbon, and how much time do we have?