SHEILA GUNN REID | Conservatives need to reject climate hysteria and the hyperbolic language of the left
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Summary
What happens when conservatives adopt the language of the left? Well, they continue to lose. In this episode, Sheila Gunn-Reed and Tom Harris from the International Climate Science Coalition discuss the problem with conservatives adopting the climate change denial language used by the left.
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What happens when conservatives adopt the language of the left?
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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You know, there's nothing quite as defeatist as watching
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a smart conservative who doesn't believe at all
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the things they're saying, using the language of the left
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to make compelling arguments to other conservatives.
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When you see strong, thoughtful, bold conservative politicians
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like, for example, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith
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using words like carbon capture, carbon emissions,
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even carbon pollution, to describe carbon dioxide,
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the language of the left, you are acknowledging
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the validity of the left's flawed arguments, right?
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And you're also moving the battlefield of ideas
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Now, joining me to discuss this problem with conservatives,
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is my friend Tom Harris from the International Climate Science Coalition
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my friend Tom Harris from the International Climate Science Coalition.
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Tom, you sent me some really great articles from America Out Loud
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regarding conservatives, and not even just conservatives,
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conceding the language of the other side all the time.
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you're moving the battleground of ideas closer to yourself
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You know, they want to destroy our major energy sources
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and, you know, all over something that's generally speaking a hoax.
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But the people who are doing the research in this
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everybody who's doing research and trying to decide
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what sort of language should be used to promote their cause,
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So what's happening is these people are deciding
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that based on their polling and their research,
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have been duped into using the same language, okay?
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And it is interesting because this is very much
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there was an appendix, a 10-page appendix at the end,
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in which he introduced the concept of new speak.
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to promote the only way they wanted you to think, okay?
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They had, you know, crime think, they called it,
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And so language type B was language that was used
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to influence the thinking pattern of the population.
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And, you know, it's interesting because I use something
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It's a Google tool that shows you the frequency
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Now, the use of the word carbon dioxide has gone down,
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but the use of carbon pollution has gone through the roof, okay?
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Carbon sequestration, carbon capture, carbon footprint,
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the conservatives are actually helping this come about.
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University of Florida linguist, her name is M.J. Hardman.
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Language is the instrument with which we form thought
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and feeling, mood, aspiration, will, and action.
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If you go to bing.com and you put in a question,
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I said the same thing about Americans, about British.
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So two hours later, I got back in and asked it,
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but it doesn't learn when it comes to some topics.
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to use the right language in the climate debate,
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wouldn't you tell them that they should study language
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at the new Conservative Party of Canada policies.
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some really garbage-y stuff, which is great, okay?
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They say that their policies will be firmly based
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on the best scientific and technological information
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small modular reactors, okay, that makes sense,
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against the phasing out of Canadian oil and gas