Global Warming? My A$$ Its Cold Outside

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Originally Posted by FRPLG

Global warming might very well exist...but it is an absolute falsehood that "every credible climatologist says so".

They key part of that phrase is "credible". Who decides what is credible? Certainly there are plenty of idiot crackpots in the deny camp...as there are in the warming camp. But what has happened is that the warming contingent has sought to label anyone who raises doubts as not "credible" simply due to those doubts. That's not science. It comes down to this, because they don't agree then they're not "credible". Ha! Skepticism is an integral part of science. To dismiss it is to abandon science. They're doing that. There are many who do it on both sides.

The tiny fraction of scientists that don't believe in global warming are being funded by people like the Koch Brothers. These guys stand to lose billions so they pay scientist to say the opposite of what 97% of the scientist all agree on.


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According to the 2010 report by Greenpeace, Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding climate change denial. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million, while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of climate change skeptics. Efforts include:

More than $5 million to Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) for its nationwide “Hot Air Tour” campaign opposing clean energy and climate legislation.
More than $1 million to the Heritage Foundation, which writes about climate and environmental policy issues.
Over $1 million to the Cato Institute, which disputes the scientific evidence behind global warming, questions the rationale for taking climate action, and has been heavily involved in spinning the recent ClimateGate story.
$800,000 to the Manhattan Institute, which has hosted Bjorn Lomborg twice in the last two years, a prominent media spokesperson who challenges and attacks policy measures to address climate change.
$365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is “inevitable” and expensive to address.
$360,000 to Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) which supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth...or Convenient Fiction, a film attacking the science of global warming and intended as a rebuttal to former Vice-President Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth (PRIPP also threatened to sue the U.S. Government for listing the polar bear as an endangered species.)
$325,000 to the Tax Foundation, which issued a misleading study on the costs of proposed climate legislation.

The reports says such contributions are only part of the picture, because the full scope of direct contributions to organizations is not disclosed by individual Koch family members, executives, or from the company itself.

These scientists and politicians are being bankrolled to preach anti-global warming rhetoric so the Koch brothers can continue raking in billions and billions of dollars.


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