Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers
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Re: Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers
#2This new usage keeps throwing me off.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/Denier_L...
Re: Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers
#3This new usage keeps throwing me off. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/Denier_L...
Comment from this context?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004434.h...
Is the point that "The problem with symbols like this that do not form part of a well-defined system is that people will see what they want to see."?
Meaning that oil companies will create a reality that matches their business or that the global warming alarmists act like religious zealots? I believe both are true...
Re: Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers
#4This new usage keeps throwing me off. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/Denier_L...
Comment from this context? http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004434.h... Is the point that "The problem with symbols like this that do not form part of a well-defined system is that people will see what they want to see."? Meaning that oil companies will create a reality that matches their business or that the global warming alarmists act like religious zealots? I believe both are true...
What I mean is that a denier is a medieval coin.
Re: Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Comment from this context? http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004434.h... Is the point that "The problem with symbols like this that do not form part of a well-defined system is that people will see what they want to see."? Meaning that oil companies will create a reality that matches their business or that the global warming alarmists act like religious zealots? I believe both are true...
What I mean is that a denier is a medieval coin.
Hmm. I was close :-P