[Peace-discuss] Mounting dangers of nuclear weaponry

[Brussel, Morton K]

Correction, I should not have used the words “due to ”; I meant to say  "responsible for”   —mkb

On Jun 19, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu<mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:

There’s always been a faintly contrary current at Counterpunch on climate change - owing to the late Alex Cockburn's doubts on the matter.

It’s more than made up for by the ecological advocacy of the current editor, author of inter alia "Been Brown So Long it Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature” (2004).


On Jun 19, 2017, at 10:27 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

A fine, if depressing, article by Diana Johnstone, one of the most cogent of critical writers of the world scene.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/nuclear-weapons-ban-what-needs-to-be-banned-is-u-s-arrogance/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.counterpunch.org_2017_06_16_nuclear-2Dweapons-2Dban-2Dwhat-2Dneeds-2Dto-2Dbe-2Dbanned-2Dis-2Du-2Ds-2Darrogance_&d=DwMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=ArrVKPFqyk580Yy4zhMKRmOhvQ_3Han18vzXVQTlvkY&s=noA0_tTAB9l6GGr13Ei3u1APgg6xfUZZyQDme9wvCy4&e=>

–Except that she is, surprisingly,  dead wrong on a stray comment that the sun’s cycles is possibly due to our current climate change. This has been definitively debunked by astronomers and climate scientists.

Here is her disconcerting statement: " More to the point, the degree of human responsibility in climate change is more disputed among serious scientists than the public is aware, due to the role of such contributing factors as solar variations.”

—mkb


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