Washington Post Proposes Smoke And Mirrors To Combat Climate Change

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

I liked it better in 1975 when they wanted to use soot to melt the polar ice caps.

h/t to “MikeTheDenier”

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12 Responses to Washington Post Proposes Smoke And Mirrors To Combat Climate Change

  1. Amino says:

    Like Monckton says: “Let’s have the courage to do nothing.”

  2. suyts says:

    lol, Steve, I can’t keep up with your postings! Slow down! We can only deal with so much insanity at once!

    That’s it! I’m wondering to my local Eagles club and shoot some pool and consume some malt beverages and try to pretend there’s still a bit of sanity left in the world!

    AHAHAHAHAHA reflectors in space! That should do the trick! Luney toons.

  3. ChrisD says:

    Whoa there, Nellie, this wasn’t the Washington Post, it was an op-ed. There’s a difference. When the Post prints a George Will column, do you say “The Washington Post says climate change is BS”?

    I couldn’t agree more about the stupidity of the column, but attributing it to the Post is wrong.

    • suyts says:

      I wrote a letter to the editor piece they decided not to print. It was about 3 yrs. ago, too radical to print…….apparently this piece is exceptable to their standards.

  4. Martin C says:

    Uh, Chris, what are you talking about . . . ?

    If you click the link, it takes you to the Washington Post, the editorial section. The author is Dana Milbank and his e-mail is [email protected]

    Dana is a staff writer at the Washington Post (see this link:
    http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/dana+milbank/

    So how can you claim this isn’t from the Washington Post?

    • ChrisD says:

      It’s an op-ed piece, not a news article or editorial. It doesn’t necessarily reflect the Post’s views. Saying that it does is just plain wrong.

      There are a half-dozen column’s in today’s Post, including one by George Will titled “The Heavy Hand of Obama.” Are they all supposed to reflect the Post’s views? Would this page title be accurate?

      “Washington Post Says ‘Obama is in a terrific lather of insinuation'”

      That’s what George Will says. Do you think it reflects the views of the Washington Post?

    • ChrisD says:

      And, by the way, that’s not the editorial section, it’s op-ed. Not the same thing.

  5. Martin C says:

    Chris,
    You maybe be ‘technically correct’ on the op ed issue, and it was the op-ed page, which is opposite the editorial page (I stand corrected saying it was the editorial section) but since his bio states ‘he joined the Post in 1990’, he therefore works for the Post. An article by an employee of a publication is ‘from that publication’.

    If he were a ‘guest post’ and didn’t work for the Washington Post, then I might agree with you.

    • ChrisD says:

      I’m sorry, Martin, but this is an op-ed piece, not an editorial. The op-ed page contains personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect the newspaper’s views. That’s what it’s for.

      It doesn’t matter that Milbank also writes a regular column for the Post. You simply can’t attribute anything on the op-ed page to the newspaper itself. It doesn’t matter who wrote it.

      If it were the Post’s views, it would be on the editorial page, not op-ed.

      • suyts says:

        Ok, so the writer’s (of the paper) views don’t reflect the views of the paper they write for…………riiiiiigghhhtt. I got it now!

      • ChrisD says:

        Sigh. Let’s try this one more time.

        The op-ed page is a page for personal opinion. What appears on the op-ed page is personal opinion. It is not the views of the newspaper in which it appears. It does not matter who the writer is, it is still PERSONAL OPINION. If you think otherwise, you have a really fundamental misunderstanding of newspapers.

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