Channeling Steve Schneider
No matter what some of the more zealous climate advocates may think of Roger Pielke, Jr., I bet they would agree with him here.
Seriously, this is red meat wrapped in a bow for Morano. The striking thing, aside from the obvious foot-in-mouth comments, is that this interview is a month old. How is it possible that it went virtually noticed it until now?
Thanks Keith. I have been using his quotes for a while now. Here is today’s article in the Springfield News Leader on Aug. 14, 2009 quoting me discussing the Nobel winners “wish” for tornadoes.
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20090814/NEWS01/908140373/Debunking++climaste+change+myths+
Article Excerpt: However, Morano expressed amazement that more aren’t challenging statements made from supporters like Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Schelling. According to Morano, Schelling was quoted in The Atlantic as wishing for natural disasters: “I sometimes wish we could have over the next five or 10 years a lot of horrid things happening, you know, like tornados in the Mid west and so forth. That would get people concerned about climate change.” Morano called characterized such statement as insane. “A man who can’t convince people on the science because the science isn’t there, so he’s now wishing for death, destruction on people through tornados,” he said.
Marc,
You probably don’t here this too often from folks like me: I stand corrected.