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Great, another climate change denier https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Foundation-on-climate-change https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views

Great, another climate change denier https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Foundation-on-climate-change https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Founda...

magic5227 10y ago
https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s
- ChrisClark 10y ago
  > Whenever you hear someone use the word science it's like a tell that they're bluffing Well, that's a horrible way to go through life.
- pavanky 10y ago
  That has to be the most ridiculous line of reasoning I have seen.
- kintamanimatt 10y ago
  Wow, that's some faulty logic he's expressing there. As an aside, what's wrong with his cheek? Did he have an accident or some bad plastic surgery?
- rajathagasthya 10y ago
  What an idiot!
- zaroth 10y ago
  What's with posting links with a timestamp skipping the overall context? Yeah, watch from t=0 the whole 3 minutes and 42 seconds. I don't hear anything shocking. It's not so much a rebuke of climate change, it's a rebuke of political correctness and the inability to have a debate.
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somedangedname 10y ago
He's not a big fan of democracy either: "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
- peterclary 10y ago
  Thank you for that article. I shall read it in depth later, but a cursory glance suggests that Mr Thiel believes, as many do, that freedom means not being compelled to help his fellow humans, or even his own immediate society, by taxation or any other means. The article also has a very alarming quote: "The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism." What happened to making the world safe for people?
barney54 10y ago
Nothing in that post explains why Thiel is a climate change denier. The only thing I see that could be construed that way is that he said it hasn't gotten warmer the last 15 years. It depends on when Thiel made that statement whether it was true or not at the time. The warming that occurred over the last year meant that there was statistically significant warming, but before about February the warming over the last 15 years was not statistically significant. At worst getting the facts wrong by a few months doesn't make Thiel a climate change denier.
- saiko-chriskun 10y ago
  Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxxGhLFbw4&feature=youtu.be&t=2m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxxGhLFbw4&feature=youtu.be...
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Great, another climate change denier https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Foundation-on-climate-change https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Founda...

magic5227 10y ago

https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s

ChrisClark 10y ago
> Whenever you hear someone use the word science it's like a tell that they're bluffing Well, that's a horrible way to go through life.
pavanky 10y ago
That has to be the most ridiculous line of reasoning I have seen.
kintamanimatt 10y ago
Wow, that's some faulty logic he's expressing there. As an aside, what's wrong with his cheek? Did he have an accident or some bad plastic surgery?
rajathagasthya 10y ago
What an idiot!
zaroth 10y ago
What's with posting links with a timestamp skipping the overall context? Yeah, watch from t=0 the whole 3 minutes and 42 seconds. I don't hear anything shocking. It's not so much a rebuke of climate change, it's a rebuke of political correctness and the inability to have a debate.

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somedangedname 10y ago

He's not a big fan of democracy either: "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

peterclary 10y ago
Thank you for that article. I shall read it in depth later, but a cursory glance suggests that Mr Thiel believes, as many do, that freedom means not being compelled to help his fellow humans, or even his own immediate society, by taxation or any other means. The article also has a very alarming quote: "The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism." What happened to making the world safe for people?

barney54 10y ago

Nothing in that post explains why Thiel is a climate change denier. The only thing I see that could be construed that way is that he said it hasn't gotten warmer the last 15 years. It depends on when Thiel made that statement whether it was true or not at the time. The warming that occurred over the last year meant that there was statistically significant warming, but before about February the warming over the last 15 years was not statistically significant. At worst getting the facts wrong by a few months doesn't make Thiel a climate change denier.

saiko-chriskun 10y ago
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxxGhLFbw4&feature=youtu.be&t=2m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxxGhLFbw4&feature=youtu.be...
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