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applegrove

(118,800 posts)
Wed Oct 19, 2022, 12:36 PM Oct 2022

Dr. Oz Flip Flops on Climate Science

Dr. Oz Flip Flops on Climate Science

October 19, 2022 at 8:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/10/19/dr-oz-flip-flops-on-climate-science/

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“As a celebrity TV doctor, Mehmet Oz used his platform to spread awareness of how climate change is harming public health by fueling extreme heat, wildfires, floods and infectious-disease outbreaks,” the Washington Post reports.

“But as a Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the fight for control of Congress, Oz is now denying the scientific consensus on climate change and downplaying the dangers of Earth’s rapid warming.”

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Dr. Oz Flip Flops on Climate Science (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2022 OP
These bastards would Disaffected Oct 2022 #1
They not only would do this, but they already have done this. lark Oct 2022 #3
Jah! Jah! Jah wohl! Dirty Socialist Oct 2022 #2
covered in this post greenman3610 Oct 2022 #4
Such mendacity is going to be the ruination of the planet. Disaffected Oct 2022 #5

lark

(23,158 posts)
3. They not only would do this, but they already have done this.
Wed Oct 19, 2022, 01:05 PM
Oct 2022

They are nothing but soulless oligarchs trying to steal everything from the working class/poor. Barons and serfs is their desired economic model and guess who are the serfs?

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
2. Jah! Jah! Jah wohl!
Wed Oct 19, 2022, 12:47 PM
Oct 2022

Republicans have learned they must march in lockstep. They are excellent at following orders. Nicht war?

greenman3610

(3,947 posts)
4. covered in this post
Wed Oct 19, 2022, 01:25 PM
Oct 2022
https://climatecrocks.com/2022/10/04/if-it-walks-like-a-quack-dr-oz-and-climate-denial/


Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor turned GOP Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, declared Wednesday that carbon dioxide is not a climate problem because it accounts for just a small fraction of the air in Earth’s atmosphere, a longtime talking point of climate change deniers.

Disaffected

(4,569 posts)
5. Such mendacity is going to be the ruination of the planet.
Wed Oct 19, 2022, 02:35 PM
Oct 2022

And, the newly installed RW premier of Alberta, Danniel Smith, apparently thinks we should not be switching from coal to nat gas power generation because methane, the primary constituent of natural, gas is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

She is also BTW is an ardent vaccine mandate critic and opponent.

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