# Is the demonization of carbon dioxide just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166 "2019-02-25T06:50:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/21 "2019-02-25T17:46:24Z")
I… What… No… … I give up, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/22 "2019-02-25T17:49:34Z")
The difference between the two? People do not belong in gas chambers, while carbon dioxide does. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/23 "2019-02-25T17:55:15Z")
Oh my Godwin. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/24 "2019-02-25T18:20:57Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > If some crackpot like Anderson Cooper or Oprah Winfrey had done the following… Are you seriously equating Anderson Cooper and Oprah Winfrey? Ok, Oprah… but Anderson? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/25 "2019-02-27T11:36:51Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Are you seriously equating Anderson Cooper and Oprah Winfrey? Ok, Oprah… but Anderson? Yeah, just because Anderson has a silly evil cackle doesn’t make him a crackpot. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/26 "2019-02-27T11:52:17Z")
Is he saying that carbon dioxide is an innocent persecuted victim, just like the Jews? Or is he saying that carbon dioxide is the source of all the world’s problems and deserves everything it gets, just like the Jews? I mean, in principle he might not be a climate change denier - he could be an anti-Semite who plans to adopt sensible environmental policy. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/27 "2019-02-27T17:53:55Z")
If I start a coalition of Jews Against Carbon Dioxide, will his head explode? ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/28 "2019-03-07T01:07:38Z")
Y’know, I would equate that presidential commission with the creation of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography during the 1980s and stacking the commission with experts like [ul] [li]James Dobson, American Evangelical Christian author and founder of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.[/li] [li]Father Bruce Ritter, a Franciscan Friar and [/li] [li]Alan Sears, author and founder of a Christian right legal advocacy group[/li][/ul] Critics of the report also noted that 1) no data was collected, no research was conducted 2) it directly contradicts the results of the 1970 Nixon/Johnson report which not only included data and research but recommended loosening restrictions. But, then again, this is a commission created by a president who wants to _Make America Great Again_ and includes the Reagan years as one of those great times. So maybe he’s trying to emulate the Gipper with another stacked commission. As such, this is just not a surprising development. ## –G! > [@Czarcasm](#): > > The difference between the two? > People do not belong in gas chambers, while carbon dioxide does. Wow! That was just beautiful! If I could give you style-points for that quip, the LIKE button would break from overuse. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/29 "2019-03-07T04:45:40Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. People like Donald Trump and William Happer are helping to make that possible. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/30 "2019-03-07T04:48:10Z")
It’s really sad that the only objections Trump is likely to have with Happer’s statement is its implied criticism of the Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/31 "2019-03-07T05:09:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s really sad that the only objections Trump is likely to have with Happer’s statement is its implied criticism of the Nazis. Jews, Nazis…[some very fine people on both sides](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166/32 "2019-03-07T06:10:39Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Can Trump have found someone even dumber than he is? Of course. He found, what? Some fifty million or so? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-just-like-the-demonization-of-the-poor-jews-under-hitler/830166.md?page=1)