Patrick Moore, who (falsely) claims to be a co-founder of Greenpeace, has a short oped in the WSJ addressing the President's trip to Alaska. Given Moore's decades of service to various industrial interests, his misleading and illogical points shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Nevertheless, we'll rebut.
During Obama's Alaska visit, the President hiked up the rapidly-retreating Exit Glacier saying, "[glacial melt] is as good a signpost of what we're dealing with when it comes to climate change as just about anything." According to Moore, however, Alaska's glaciers have retreated and advanced in the past—including before the industrial revolution—so warming must not be at fault now.
The logical failing here should be clear: just because something happened naturally in the past doesn't mean it can't happen unnaturally now. After all, the fact that people die of natural causes is hardly a defense for murder.
But when your big claim to fame is that you joined Greenpeace decades ago, only to then spend decades pretending to be a co-founder while doing the bidding of polluting industries, factual accuracy clearly isn't your top priority.
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