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Originally Posted by Turtle
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Turtle - Are you even reading the counter points, or do you just continue cherry-picking data and sharing it here, despite the fact that everything you've shared turns out to have already been debunked?
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study | Environment | The Guardian
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Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.
The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012. World governments were given a draft last year and invited to comment.
The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.
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He's of the same set of research as Nir Shariv, who we already saw was wrong above.
Big Cynic: For sale: scientists willing to debunk global warming
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mathematician/physicist with a background in space science is more qualified to comment on climatology than, say, a climatologist is.
Now, an Israeli physicist, Nir Shariv, has jumped on the bandwagon, singing a familiar tune that includes such favorite lyrics as "junk science." He's even come up with his own whopper—that even doubling the amount of carbon dioxide emissions by 2100 "will not dramatically increase the global temperature."
Who cares if 99 percent of the scientific community accepts that global warming is really happening and that we're responsible? So what if all those high-fallutin' scientists were right about things like gravity and the atom? Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the oil industry pimps (actually, whores is a more accurate characterization) only need a couple of scientists on their payroll to justify their bluster denying global warming.
One of the so-called critiques parroted by the Fox zombies (like that idiot in Washington State) is that scientists who claim that global warming is real are only in it for grant money. In actuality, however, it's scientists like Messrs. Abdusamatov and Shariv who can count on a lot of grant money and other forms of favorable treatment from now on—from the AEI and other corporate PR firms disguised as think tanks.
It just goes to show that in America today, there's more money in denying the truth than in telling the truth—especially when ExxonMobil is ponying up the cash.
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It has NOTHING to do with heresy... It has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that their claims are all debunked!
Please read post #33, and look up "
denialist tactics."
