You really are a boring individual.
"look around you..."
"look around you..."
i provided directions to a resource that demonstrates where you are wrong, that is more than mere statement...Yeah, all you did was state that I was wrong and you were right, and that makes me a failure.
You really are a boring individual.
"look around you..."
Exposed: Exxon funding climate denial. Yes, again
The front page of The Times this morning is just the latest sign that the tide is once again turning against the climate denial community. The newspaper reports that ExxonMobil gave £1 million to fund “organisations that campaign against controls on greenhouse gas emissions” – including several of those which made the outspoken attacks on climate scientists at the University of East Anglia.
It reports:
The paper adds:The scientists were exonerated this month by an independent inquiry but groups funded by Exxon have continued to lambast them. The Media Research Centre, which received $50,000 from Exxon, called the inquiry a “whitewash” and condemned “climate alarmism”.
This is not the first time Exxon have been caught using dirty tricks to smear climate science and climate scientists. As The Times remind us today:Some of Exxon’s largest donations were to groups that lobbied against a global deal on emissions being reached at the climate summit last December in Copenhagen.
Later, in 2006, the prestigious Royal Society told Exxon to stop funding climate denial groups.In 2002 it was revealed that Exxon sent a memorandum to the Bush White House to call for the removal of Robert Watson, the atmospheric scientist who was the first chair of the IPCC. The Bush administration did subsequently lobby for Dr Watson to be replaced, which he was.
Also in their editorial today, The Times says:
This exposé comes after NASA reported that this year is very likely going to be the hottest on record, and comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) said that last month was the fourth month in a row of record global temperatures, and that the ten warmest years on record have all been since 1995.The IPCC assessment reports are made available for comment in an open review process to which anyone may contribute. They attract scientists of the highest calibre and list of scientific bodies that endorse their findings should give pause to anyone whose expertise in this issue is lacking.
The IPCC is, however, a skeletal organisation… this is a global authority operating out of a broom cupboard. There is, therefore, a serious question if the huge weight of scientific opinion, on the one hand, is ranged against the huge weight of corporate funding on the other.
The Times report follows an editorial in the New York Times describing “the debunking of climategate”. It also comes after the retraction of both the “Amazongate” story and the “Africagate” story, and follows news that climate denial websites have seen their readership drop significantly. And as Left Foot Forward has already reported, public concern about climate change – both in the UK and the US – remains very high.
Even the right-wing Canadian National Post newspaper, which has championed climate sceptic arguments in recent years, now says:
Their leader editorial concludes: “Global warming deniers are a liability to the Conservative cause”, and warns that “the (Conservative) movement will come to be defined – and discredited – by its noisiest cranks and conspiracists.” (This is something I wrote about last year for the Independent on Sunday, here.)Most climate-change deniers (or “skeptics,” or whatever term one prefers) tend to inhabit militantly right-wing blogs and other Internet echo chambers populated entirely by other deniers.
legalize pot! Can you imagine the amount of resources consumed running INDOOR growops? Electricity to run lights, aircon and other bits of equip, all the wasted water from RO machines....
Now, go back and find the assertions that I made and perhaps I will address them.
As is, you have what I typed all fucked up, which is on par with the rest of your perceptive qualities.
there are those, just as credible as your prophets, that dissent from their positions.
There is lots of evidence that the earth is continuing to produce oil as we deplete it.
Exactly.
The title of this thread should read:
What can *I* do about global warming instead of this politically slanted drivel.
Isn't there a rule here somewhere about that?
That was a rhetorical question
The word "we" does not make this discussion political... whiners who bring up politics do.
We could most assuredly invest in tech that will mitigate some of our influence on the climate,
and do so in a completely apolitical manner.
but, regardless...
The planet belongs to WE not to ME.
united we prevail, separated we fail.
I guess you can't take the STFU already hint, huh?
Make yourself happy and turn out a light, everyone else will do as they see fit, without your opinion...cool?
I will not stfu, hypocrite.
I will do as I see fit, like you say everyone should be able to.
I'll continue offering my opinion, as will you, most likely.
I'll also continue posting truths, and challenging bullshitters to produce evidence.
you think you have a right to repress my non-tou violating free speech?
get over yourself.
ad hominem, obviously in reference to your tendency to talk about your perceptions of my shortcomings, which you do to distract from your complete lack of substantial evidence or relevant topical input.ad hominem |ˈad ˈhämənəm|
adverb & adjective
1 (of an argument or reaction) arising from or appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic
• attacking an opponent’s motives or character rather than the policy or position they maintain
2 relating to or associated with a particular person
nice ad hominem arguments, you two.
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