New York Times columnist Bret Stephens has already published a follow-up to his inaugural column for the paper, which managed to trigger climate change absolutists and send them scrambling to cancel their subscriptions before their progressive neighbors stopped by and discovered a copy of the now-forbidden heretical text in their possession.
Seriously, is this witch hunt going to go on as long as the election postmortem?
NYT public editor pleads with readers to give climate denying bigot a chance https://t.co/wGzIMkNJH9 pic.twitter.com/dJhHdosgan
— Fusion (@Fusion) May 3, 2017
LOL. By this time next week you'll be saying he's a murderer. https://t.co/srbbE6uqHT
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 4, 2017
Former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes is still scratching his head wondering why his boss invited clowns like Bill Nye to science functions at the White House. No, wait: he’s wondering why the Times doesn’t just give the Flat Earth Society its own column.
Would the NYT give a column to someone who used it to argue that the Earth is flat? Then why give a platform for climate denial?
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) May 3, 2017
This is so dumb it's shocking you were of the position of power you were in the White House. https://t.co/F242Zr146I
— Jamie Weinstein (@Jamie_Weinstein) May 4, 2017
It’s hardy worth repeating at this point since people like Rhodes tuned out a while ago, but nowhere in his column did Stephens deny man-made climate change or its possible catastrophic effects, so the charge of “climate denial” is as baseless as it sounds.
Congrats for making @BretStephensNYT's point perfectly. And the beauty is you can't even see it. https://t.co/aEMzPQJjs3
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 4, 2017
@JonahNRO @justkarl @BretStephensNYT That's is what is poetic about this, is that @brhodes truly can't see it.
— Marshall Power Locke (@MarshallLocke) May 4, 2017
Nope. Please, don’t try to understand what Stephens actually wrote; just keep up the pedantry until 2020, OK?
@brhodes Maybe the dumbest thing ever said
— Tom Van Riper (@RipSays) May 4, 2017
@brhodes because real science always questions & tests and retests. It doesn't rope off unproven concepts as beyond questioning & shut down debate?
— Billy Sanford (@sanfordbilly) May 4, 2017
@brhodes Did you read the column? He affirms the reality of human-caused climate change. Why are you denying that?
— James Meredith (@NDTwinsfan) May 4, 2017
@brhodes This tweet makes it crystal clear you did not even read the article
— Sawyer (@hipstersawyer) May 3, 2017
@brhodes Pretty sure you didn't read the column. He didn't deny warming, nor human contributions thereto.
— Calvin Wells (@CalGTR) May 4, 2017
@brhodes Your reading comprehension is low. That may be a willful choice on your part.
— Stephen Fotos (@sjfotos) May 3, 2017
@brhodes To be honest, I've been skeptical ever since my sixth grade health textbook told me we were going to run out of clean water by 1985.
— Mark Frees (@mfrees) May 3, 2017
@brhodes And the fact that you equate the certainty of global warming models with the certainty of earth being round proves Bret Stephen's point.
— Mark Frees (@mfrees) May 3, 2017
@brhodes I have a degree in meteorology. Worked the field 14 years. Man-made climate change/global warming is BS. What is YOUR scientific background?
— That Greek Guy! (@DesignGreek) May 3, 2017
He knows a guy who took a selfie with Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson and who encouraged a young inventor named Clock Boy to inspire others to pursue science and frivolous lawsuits.
@brhodes This is what you sound like: pic.twitter.com/9lDe6Us9ho
— Shrendan Banahan (@ShrendanBanahan) May 3, 2017
@brhodes Comparing climate skeptics to FlatEarthers is the sort of absurdist, over-the-top, anti-science rhetoric that kills your side's credibility.
— JerryDunleavy ??? (@JerryDunleavy) May 3, 2017
@brhodes Why have op-eds at all? Just go ahead & kill all dissent in any form, we didn't need free speech anyway. Right?
— Novel Reviewer (@PantherSherry) May 3, 2017
@JonahNRO @BretStephensNYT They've learned nothing.
— Pradheep Shanker MD (@Neoavatara) May 4, 2017
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ICYMI –> ‘Everyone freak out now.’ Bret Stephens answers climate change crackpots about his climate column https://t.co/YJeXLQzN3D
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 2, 2017
