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The Global Warming Doubter Equals Flat-Earther Canard

Politco hosted a discussion during which Tucker Carlson argued that the hallmark of the “unreasonable person, of the budding fascist,” is the inability to recognize that your political opponent might have something reasonable to say. As an example, he used the way some on the left belittle and demean anyone who questions the Global Warming orthodoxy.

The intellectual lightweight, Arianna Huffington then went on to demonstrate his point by claiming anyone who doesn’t think Global Warming is manmade is akin to someone who thinks the Earth is flat (video below).

While assuming the mantle of superior intelligence, all Huffington is really doing is recycling an old canard that’s been bandied about by the left for years, including by their prophet himself, Al Gore. She has nothing new or insightful to say; she’s just using a tired slogan to demean Sarah Palin, who’s on record doubting mankind’s contribution to Global Warming (she goes on to misrepresent Palin’s other positions).

There are a lot of reasons to doubt the Anthropogenic Global Warming orthodoxy and you don’t even have to be an oil company executive to see them. But rather than rehash the argument, I’m going to take a shortcut and point out that if this comparison were really true, then the scientific community’s official position would be that the Earth is “very likely” round. If she really thinks these two issues are equal, then Huffington apparently believes there’s still a 10% chance it’s flat — so who’s really the flat-Earther?

The video is below. It starts with this and segues into a debate on the need for a straight news anchor and Keith Olbermann. But I don’t really recommend watching it. Huffington annoys: