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Dan8267 says

Oh, no! A butterfly is attacking us! Run for the hills!

OMGosh! Global warming is the end of life as we know it! Run for the hills! ;-)

Global warming raises the mosquito line exposing tens of millions of people to malaria. So yes, it can kill. Additionally the thermal expansion of the oceans threatens billions of dollars of real estate in Florida alone. Butterflies don't do that. Neither do Mexicans or even terrorists.

http://www.unicef.org/health/files/health_africamalaria.pdf

Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year. More than 40 percent of the world's population lives in malaria-risk areas.

zzyzzx says

So Time had a cover on an upcoming ice age back in 1977. And this discredits tens of thousands of peer reviewed papers on climate change, how? Since when is Time Magazine a peer reviewed scientific journal? And how does a news magazine discredit the thousands of lines of evidence independently confirming climate change?

Shit, I guess terrorism isn't real ever. We might as well release all terror suspects and call home our troops because Time Magazine had many covers on this and therefore it must be a made up problem.

zzyzzx says

I think you got that backwards. Clearly the big money is going to big oil. But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your narrative.

zzyzzx says

Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet. If you believe that lie, you are truly misinformed. However, the legislation Gore sponsored is the reason the Internet was developed in America instead of China and its the reason we dominated Internet based commerce and innovation. Gore created more jobs and economic opportunity by sponsoring that legislation than all Republicans in all of American history put together.

And if you think Al Gore made up "global warming" or climate change, you are an idiot. Anyone who ignores a plethora of scientific evidence deserves no respect. There is far more evidence that man-made climate change is real and happening right now than there is that George Washington fought in the American Revolution.

The responses by conservative to this thread actually quite well demonstrate the point of the video in the original post. And intelligent, rational person evaluates risks. A cave man only understands Stone Age risks. That's why conservatives are always afraid that the neighboring tribe is going to kill them, but are incapable of understanding modern threats like pollution and climate change. If something wasn't a threat in the Stone Age, the cave man can't comprehend how it could be a threat.