Comment Re:Inquisition (Score 1) 394
Adolf McInhofe ring a bell, Nazi scum?
Global warming is a great thing - just ask Canada, especially the places that are currently -40 degrees.
As opposed to those near freezing - at the Arctic Circle? There is a reason why "Global" is capitalized. Here's a nice world map how temperatures where compared to the average for Jan. 2015: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
Final thought... comparisons are to rebuilding today's infrastructure as if it wasn't constantly changing already. We have decades and perhaps centuries to adjust - ever hear of constant improvement?
We are decades behind fixing our infrastructure already - do you really want to drag that out even longer?
Using the force of the United States government vie senate commity is the McCarthy connection.
Odd you didn't complain about Senator McInhofe, who did exactly what you claim now happens. Only he actually did it for real.
Probably more for being pro-climate change.
How do you figure? Solar panels are pennies on the ten thousand dollar bill next to oil. Fellating Exxon is a thoroughly bipartisan endeavor - Obama has opened up more land to drilling than Bush and Cheney, including the eastern seaboard. He brags that the U.S. is producing more oil and gas than it has the ability to transport to market. Biden's son is a top executive at Ukrainian energy company. BP was allowed to savage the Gulf of Mexico and get away with paying a fraction of the costs of mitigation. Politicians from both parties fall over themselves in the rush to pledge their love of coal.
Government has a heavy bias toward fossil fuels. If there was a bias resulting from government-funded science grants, it would be against climate change, not for it.
Case in point: just look at the GAO Climate Change report, detailing expenditures on "Funding for climate change activities", by far the most money goes to the Dept. of Energy, which of course doesn't spend a penny on actual climate science, but on things like "energy conservation" (ooh, evil) and "Fossil Energy Research and Development "
Yes you read that right. The tax that according to the denialist PR gets wasted on climate research to quite a large extend goes into "Fossil Energy Research".
Nope, its the people who have to listen to the same "experts" (who mostly aren't climate scientists) repeating the same arguments that disagree with the vast majority of actual climate scientists.
"Nope" ??? "Nope"?? I would call that a failure of comprehension.
Yeah. On your part. Poor downtrodden denialist.
and the wall street banks were salivating at the thought of trading carbon credits your point being?
a lot of money to be made on "green" crap
So which climate scientists got funding from Wall Street? As opposed to the non-climate-scientists experts on climate science the oil industry funded?
It isn't the "scientific community" that is making this demand, it is the people that fund the "scientific community"
Nope, its the people who have to listen to the same "experts" (who mostly aren't climate scientists) repeating the same arguments that disagree with the vast majority of actual climate scientists. And they want to know if there is something going on here - like the experts being paid by the same people as those who insist that they know more about climate science than actual climate scientists. You know, Senators like James M. Inhofe and people like the Koch brothers.
It smells like fascism. That's what I'm afraid of. A lot of things lately have smelled like fascism.
He who smelt it...
For better 'data' - look at the Apple forums.
Yeah, because armies of users come to post on Apple forums to let people know the update's working fine for them.
Oh so that's why Windows is perceived as being bad, it actually isnt and it is just that the only people who are vocal are the ones that have problems. Well thanks for clearing that up!
Actually, many Windows users have given up complaining about Windows problems. Some even began complaining about problems in other OSs just so their pains feel less bad.
No, but it is evidence suggesting that the Germans were prepared to use chemical weapons in WWI
Nope, having gas masks means they were prepared to be attacked with chemical weapons.
Perhaps you failed to notice that my source was the Huffington Post.
Huffelpuffle is never a news source, they are an aggregator. And as all aggregators they work GIGO.
That many official published charts of "warming" temperature started in 1979 is an objective fact.
It has to do with the fact that satellite temperature measurements, favoured by denialists because it shows the least warming, started that year. That's why most charts you get to see on your favourite disinformation sources start that year. Most charts actually start about a century before that.
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