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Global warming study, with Koch funding.
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"Funding came from a number of sources, including... billionaire US industrialists who have also donated large sums to organisations lobbying against acceptance of man-made global warming."
That's got to be annoying for them Considering how big an issue global warming was in the media a few years ago, the opposition have done a good job of casting doubt on it and as such the public fear and interest seem to have waned recently. In my mind there is no doubt that modern human civilisation MUST have some kind of impact on the biosphere, and I hope that soon it can be established as scientific fact and we as a species can alter our outlook and take precautionary measures. RE: Global warming study, with Koch funding.
July 30, 2012 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2012 at 1:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That our activities have a persistent and noticeable effect on our environment has been established as a fact, it is the specifics of what those effects may be on a global scale (and how to deal with them) that is the subject of contention. That's where I think we dropped the ball. There was an opportunity to sow discord and those with vested interests seized upon it. Personally, I blame sensationalism and tv ratings systems, which practically gauranteed that the initial round of warnings to be cautious of our environment were bound to be the absolute nuttiest of the bunch.
(laying aside those objections that somehow this rock is capable of shrugging us -or anything- off completely)
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I'm still skeptical. Only the BBC who've been lobbying in the global warming movement would draw attention to something so mundane.
But I'm sure it'll please the bastards in government pushing for heavier green tax levies. Fuckers will charge us for breathing and farting emissions before long.  Quote:That's got to be annoying for them Annoying? I'm sure they regard it as proof that a billion dollars doesn't go as far as it used to. That's why they want MORE. 
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(July 30, 2012 at 6:47 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: See.... It's that policy thing again. You need to understand that facts are independent of policy. Very true, I would also like to add that increasingly, independence of fact is becoming a requirement of policy..... 
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 (July 30, 2012 at 6:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:That's got to be annoying for them The fact that the Koch brothers didn't have this buried can only mean they have contrived a way to make at least 12 figures off AGW. RE: Global warming study, with Koch funding.
August 1, 2012 at 4:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm by Welsh cake.)
Can you falsify climate change and global warming?
If you can't, then why can't you see why I'm skeptical. Besides the planet's fucked in the long-term anyway. In a billion years the sun would've gotten hot enough to boil the oceans away. [EDIT] Life is fucked, not necessarily the planet itself, of course. |
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