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Who’s Big Global Warming’s Daddy?
USA Today’s house editorial today bemoans the fact that Climategate “gives ammunitiion to the skeptics,” but concludes that “the overwhelming scientific consensus remains that the Earth is warming, largely because of human activity, with potentially calamitous consequences involving melting ice caps, rising sea levels and shifting agricultural patterns.”
USA Today’s house editorial today bemoans the fact that Climategate “gives ammunition to the skeptics,” but concludes that “the overwhelming scientific consensus remains that the Earth is warming, largely because of human activity, with potentially calamitous consequences involving melting ice caps, rising sea levels and shifting agricultural patterns.”
So do they get a skeptic to fill the daily “Another View” slot they offer to rebut their editorial? No — they get another alarmist! Under the panicky-but-now-tired headline “We need to act quickly!”, Melanie Fitzpatrick of the Union of Scientists Concerned About Their Grant Funding writes:
Now that the United States and other countries are finally moving to seriously address global warming, polluter-funded front groups and their allies in Congress are making exaggerated claims about stolen e-mails from climate scientists in a last ditch effort to derail action.
I guess Ms. Melanie missed the memos about the vast wealth that flows to alarmist science and environmental pressure groups, which they extract both from taxpayers and extort from those same “polluters” she’s talking about. And what a shock — she’s yet another politically disinterested, principled scientist who contributes to the Huffington Post.
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Jason Gillman | 12.10.09 @ 12:22PM
"Now that the United States and other countries are finally moving to seriously address global warming,"
What.. because the One is in Oslo? Methinks that itself might well be a set up..
Steve at Sweetness-light.com opines " it is looking more and more like Mr. Obama was given a Peace Prize to push him to adopt whatever comes out of Copenhagen.
The timing of the awards ceremony made sure Obama wouldn’t have any excuse not to attend. And if he attends, he has to be supportive."
Indeed.. somewhat hard to "support" from a distance without action, if you are not at a distance..
Dean| 12.10.09 @ 1:24PM
Deep Throat from "All the President's Men": "No, I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know, and I'll confirm. I'll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that's all. Just... follow the money."
It's the same way with the Global Warming crowd. To find its daddy you have to follow the money. And, at the end of the day what you'll see is that this is all about power, control and money. Concerns over the environment fall far down the list of what's important to this group.
theotherthought| 12.10.09 @ 6:32PM
One way to test whether an expert is genuine is to put most of the money to the critics, and see how many of these experts still continue to advocate their thesis. It seems to me that most of the climate critics are retired scientists who work on their own to oppose climate alarmists. Does that tell you something?
Jack| 12.11.09 @ 7:32PM
U. S. Senate Minority Report:
More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008 & 2009
http://epw.senate.gov/public/i.....9FAF4DCDB7
john ferraiolo| 12.14.09 @ 7:30PM
The earth has gone through a number ice ages , the last one ending approx. 10,000 years ago . the warming perioud following each ice age was not caused by man made pollution ,no coal burning power plants, no cars, no atom bombs, no nothing ! except the sun and other natural forces, but what the hell are they compared to man.
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