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[blackhawks]

“The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” the physicist, William Happer ..

Generally, in the reality based universe, analogies actually compare things that are, you know, LIKE each other.

And the use of 'poor' doesn't soften the stupidity.

Leaving aside the fact that a carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms has never been Bar Mitzvahed, as far as we know, fatuous comparisons of a supposed demonization of a trace gas with the demonization directed against a race and religion is perhaps the 2nd to last refuge of a scoundrel. A close second.

First refuge of a dumb-ass.