Beck calls climate change deniers Galileo under persecution from global warming cultists

Beck knows history. I'm impressed.

Hmmm - another Beckian take on history, More acurately, deniers are the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church tossing Galileo in prison for being right.

Wait a minute Glenn.

Galileo was the one who would have evaluated the science and formed an opinion form his observations, not from whoever was lining his pockets.

Chalk up one more historical figure that Beck knows nothing about.

Tune in tomorrow for Glenn Beck's hysterical interpretation of historical people.

Okay, Galileo was persecuted by religious fanatics who believed his scientific findings that the earth orbited the Sun instead of vice versa were heretical and not based in Biblical scriptures, which Galileo claimed to not be literal in the first place . . . it would seem to me that Galileo would be more like the proponents of the theories of global warming than the religious fanatics and corporate greedmongers who are opponents. Bad analogy, Beck, but then what's new? Most of your faithful followers won't know enough about Galileo to catch your false analogy.

What is a "climate change denier?"

Is someone who simply thinks that MAN'S role in climate change isn't the most significant factor a "climate change denier?"

Galileo now eh?
The man's been dead since 1642, so obviously can't speak up for himself, so I will.
Unlike Beck the people of the time new that the earth was Spherical (Got ya there Beck, you thought I was going to Say round).
They obviously did think they were at the centre of the universe much like Beck, but they eventually realised that they were wrong, unlike Beck.

Actually if Beck had looked into the history of this, rather than just accepting the popular myth, he'd know that nearly all learned men knew the Earth was round at this time.

Sigmun Freud could make a cereer with this idiot. I thought FOXNews was run by climate change eniers.

The difference is, Galileo had evidence for his claims.

And of course it wasn't scientists rejecting his claim.

Nope - the global warming deniers are like the people who thought the earth was a flat disk that rested on the back of a giant turtle. And the Sun revolved around it.....

Galileo was a progressive persecuted by conservatives and the church.

He has the right analogy, but he has it backwards. Rhetorical inversions (e.g. reverse victimhood, reverse racism, etc.) have become the master trope of the increasingly desperate and pathetic uber-conservative mouthpieces. In this case, it's plain to see that it's the climate change scientists who are Galileo, while the cultists are the deniers led by Beck and his crazy ilk.

Beck knows this is BS.

He's smart enough to know what sort of BS gets ratings.

Beck calls climate change deniers Galileo under persecution from global warming cultists

Boy was that history lesson taught wrong!

BIG OOPS!

Since when was the Renaissance in the Dark Ages? For gods sake! Somebody please take this man to task for the pure garbage that comes out of his mouth. Surely there is enough evidence now to completely discredit him.

I actually saw this live yesterday afternoon, I was shocked for half a second, then I realized -- It's Glenn Beck!

Oh waaaaaahhhhh waaaaahhhhh! Somebody has a differing opinion that us. We MUST persecute this individual for having free thoughts. What a bunch of scard-y-cats liberals are. You're all going DOWN in 2010. Get out of the kitchen if you can't handle a little heat!

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.

5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.

6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.

7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.

8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.

9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” - suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming

10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.

11) Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the last ice age 10,000 ago

12) Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds

13) Peter Lilley MP said last month that “fewer people in Britain than in any other country believe in the importance of global warming. That is despite the fact that our Government and our political class—predominantly—are more committed to it than their counterparts in any other country in the world”.

14) In pursuit of the global warming rhetoric, wind farms will do very little to nothing to reduce CO2 emissions

15) Professor Plimer, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide, stated that the idea of taking a single trace gas in the atmosphere, accusing it and finding it guilty of total responsibility for climate change, is an “absurdity”

16) I doubt this will actually get posted because there is truth here