Does comparing global warming skeptics to holocaust deniers and other smears really help anything?

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Answer 1

Most people resort to insults when they are losing an argument.  It doesn't help anyone.

Answer 2

When someone is out of answers, they often respond with "hey this guy agrees with you and he's even more stupid than I am".  OK, you're right.

Answer 3

It clarifies the level of unreality that the global warming fanatics have attained.  In Orwell's 1984 it was indeed the thought that was the crime and the words that could not be used in debate criminal.

It serves as a warning that science can be stood on its head and perverted for political reasons.  The majority will always be prone to being fooled entirely some of the time.

Red herrings are perfect for making new taxes:

CO2 tax, ID (card) tax, Home security (police state) tax; but they don't touch on the real cause, no population control especially in the countries that now really can begin to destroy the planet w. billions living and consuming like Americans & Europeans.

Answer 4

"'Holocaust deniers' are denying an established fact from the past. If the media, politicians, or the public took them at all seriously, I suppose it might increase the chances of a future Holocaust. But in fact they are marginalised, and are inevitably attacked and criticised widely whenever they try to spread their disinformation -- so they have no significant impact on society. The [global warming deniers,] however, are very different and far more dangerous. They are trying to persuade people not to take action on a problem that has not yet become catastrophic, but which will certainly do so if we listen to them and delay acting much longer."[1]

Answer 5

No... demeaning anyone is not going to help your cause. If anything it's going to produce just the opposite effect.

Answer 6

What are you trying to "help"?

Answer 7

I sort of agree, but people do this all the time, compare a horrific historical event and try to twist it to fit an agenda.  But i liked this comment:

"The slur is deliciously ironic, since a sizeable majority of global warming skeptics actually care about the real environmental issues - GM crops, the disappearance of honey bees and bats across the world, deforestation and mad scientist genetic splicing - the very subjects that are ignored while climate alarmism swallows up all the concern and funding.

Meanwhile, global warming alarmists want to cut down old growth forests and poison the air with sulphur in order to "solve the problem" of climate change. Who are the real environmentalists? Who really cares about the earth and not the greedy imposition of a leviathan taxation scam that will line the pockets of governments and transnational oil companies and do nothing to solve global warming even if you believe it's a threat in the first place? "

The global warming thing is just that, a scam.  And all the ideas to "solve" it are costly, ineffective, and it doesn't get to the root of the problem-- of which there is none.  Stop driving and use low energy light bulbs, we're told.  But that's not really the solution-- and there really isn't a problem.

Answer 8

Take the subject up with the Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman who mentioned something to that effect in an op-ed piece in February 2007.  I don't understand the analogy, but perhaps she can explain what she might have meant by it.

It's now 14 months after that incident.  In what way is it relevant today, or here?  

How does bringing it up "really help anything"?  

How many more years will you carry forward one newspaper reporter's ill-advised remark?

Are you simply trying to "stir the pot" and make the conversation more divisive?

Surely most people here are too intelligent to take the bait.