Oregon Sen. Golden Rejects All Opposing Views on Climate Debate? #dogma
Channel: kevstir
Date: 2020-02-23

Recorded at the Medford Library on 22 Feb 2020.
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03:39 “I have said that I am not interested…To me climate change is distinctive, unique among issues in one way, which is that I am done, personally, debating the severity of, yes, what I call ‘a climate crisis’…in my belief that of the willingness to do that, and I really, at the moment, can’t think of any other issue where I will refuse to take part, my belief at this point and all that I can tell, not - as someone who strives to read and educate - not as a scientist, is that the cost of continuing that discussion, that debate, ‘Let’s bring everybody in, let’s have this…’ is the newest chapter of delay of something that we’re 30 or 40 years (inaudible).”
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04:53 “Climate, we’ve delayed this just too long. I don’t know, you can’t say that there’s 100% consensus, there isn’t; there is a remarkable degree of agreement of climatologists – not on specifics, ‘What’s the right year that’s the turning point to, you know, negative feedback?  What, what exactly, you know, is the right carbon dioxide concentration level that’ll kill us?’ There isn’t agreement on that, but um, I’m not in anymore for discussions on whether or not there’s a climate crisis, I wanna be…and I, and I will not deny the platform or right of others to contribute (inaudible).”
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