re: #157 sattv4u2

James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute

“[Global warming] is analogous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill … On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can’t say, let’s reduce slavery, let’s find a compromise and reduce it 50 percent or reduce it 40 percent.”

Glad to see all of the over the top rhetoric isn’t limited to the deniers. Plenty of CRAZY to spread around!

Using Lincoln and slavery in these debates is just about as over-the-top as when Hitler is invoked in a debate. Therefore, I propose the Curmudgeon’s Addendum to Godwin’s law: In any online discussion about a controversial subject, it’s all but inevitable that someone will make an analogy either to Hitler or to Lincoln’s freeing the slaves.