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Thu Oct 17, 2013, 05:09 PM Oct 2013

Stupidest climate change denial statement I've heard so far...

"Poles?"
There are no Eskimos or Polar Bears near the South Pole, dumbshit!



The founder of the Weather Channel, now a local weatherman on a San Diego television station, dedicated nearly half an hour to climate change misinformation, including claiming that there are more polar bears because "Eskimos ... have now become more civilized."

John Coleman, who is a weatherman for the independent news station KUSI News after being "forced" out of the Weather Channel, said in a segment on climate change this week that polar bear populations have increased because "the Eskimos no longer kill the polar bears for the meat and furs in order to stay alive, it's -- we have now become more civilized in our Eskimo populations around the poles."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/17/weather-channel-founder-polar-bears-have-increa/196474

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Stupidest climate change denial statement I've heard so far... (Original Post) Archae Oct 2013 OP
The Grand Daddy of them all Jody Lane Oct 2013 #1
Back then, I was at a garden trade show in Dallas. Link Speed Oct 2013 #2
 

Link Speed

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2. Back then, I was at a garden trade show in Dallas.
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 06:19 PM
Oct 2013

The TNLA Show, the largest horticultural Trade Show in the Western Hemisphere.

Sales rep to wife on phone:"The carbon dioxide coming off these damned trees is about to kill me. The President is right."

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