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Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House
Jeff K writes "Facts and science collide with tribal loyalties, the Washington Post reports: 'Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.'"
Hard to say. The Supreme Court appointed him President the first time around and he almost lost the second election despite trotting out the terrorists and the gays. Not exactly a mandate.
I would say, based on my experience, most people are concerned. Those who do not seem to be are the corporate types who pay the electioneering expenses and the knee jerk reactionary whackos, along with a few apocalyptic Christians who believe they are helping the Second Coming by destroying the planet faster.
Just my $.02
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I mean, if the White House, and by extension, Bush, are concealing research that the US public paid for, why can't you just fucking fire him.... he is in effect, lying to you.
Ok, this is not a realistic viewpoint. It's rather naeive. But it's how I would feel if he was running my country.
Bush apparently in his 6 years in office has caused the end of an Ice Age 10,000 years ago and the increased activity from the SUN. And the warming of Mars. And people laughed at the right when they claimed God chose Bush for this time in human history. The claims being made would almost prove that Bush was more than a mere mortal. Climate research is full of politically charged people on BOTH sides of the spectrum and most "science" coming out of this is used to make political statements. This is to the detriment of REAL science. Perhaps these politically motivated researchers are UPSET that we the people (represented by DC) want the whole story not just part of the story or certain data sets that try to pin blame on humans for Global Warming.
your post was ruined the second you tried to defend two oil barons by claiming they weren't looking out for the oil industry.
You've just proved your worthlessness in this discussion with that flippant quip. Typical of someone who wants to bury their head in the sand about human involvement in the climate problem. I'll bet you also think it's OK to go through a red light if no one is around. I'll bet you think that if it doesn't hurt anyone, then it's OK to speed on an empty strech of highway even though you lack the omnicience to know whether or not there will be a car ahead of you that you don't expect. "Getting away with stuff" is the lifestyle of the idiots who would defend Bush and his corporate cronies. They are the same people I target as criminals.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
I'm more worried about the current administration's failure to legislate forced change to energy (particularly oil & gas) consumption, then I am about the American public's lack of awareness of the facts.
Will this change fix Mars too, as it is also suffering from global warming?
All the "Global Warming" propaganda always ignores any actual facts, and appears to me to be more of a political issue then a scientific study. The "proof" always seems to be "but what if it is true. We cant wait for any kind of facts because then it would be too late. Look at this undated picture of a snow covered lake. I was there last july, and there wasn't any snow."
Using the same logic from the global warming crowd (but what if...), we should be eating our own shit (but what if it improves your immune system), smoking crack (but what if it was somehow good for you), and having copious oral sex (it worked for Clinton). We don't need any proof, we need to do it now or it will surely be too late!
The official "how to reaserch global warming" task list:
1. Ignore the sun. It obviously has no relevence to the tempature.
2. Find one spot on earth that is slightly warmer than last year. This completely proves that global warming exists, and is causes by SUV's.
3. Find one spot on earth that is slightly cooler than last year. This completely proves that global warming exists, and is caused by SUV's.
4. Find some old-timers who will state that the winder was much worse when they were young, walking uphill (both ways) through 12 feet of snow while going to school, where the teacher would beat them with a baseball bat every day, and force them to eat broken glass for lunch. This completely proves that global warming exists, and is caused by SUV's.
5. Never, ever, question weither global warming really exists, or that it is caused by SUV's.
6. G.W. Bush wants to kill everybody.
7. John Kerry doesn't own any SUV's (but his wife has several), which proves that he is better than G.W. Bush, and he has a plan to immediately fix global warming (but can't tell anyone or G.W. Bush will kill him).
8. John Kerry is a war hero. Nobody knows what he did to make him a war hero, but there you go, you insensitive clod.
I think I am going to start burning full cans of pain in my back yard. I am so sick of this drival!! Lets look at fairly recent history shall we? Greenland, "discovered" in the 10-th century by Erik "The Red" Thorgromson. When he found it it s was friggan GREEN. Less than 100 years later it was covered in friggan ICE. I don't recall pre-viking aged northern europeans having friggan CARS to create a global warming trend. Maine, 1770's (I am too frustrated and pissed off at you tree hugging bastards to remember the exact year so look it the hell up) had a complete year with NO spring, summer or fall. It friggan snowed in July. What does this suggest? ummmm planet hostile, life tough, friggan planet has been here for millions of friggan years and us, we humans, think that we can influence weather on this tiny rock adrift in an insignificant solar system in the backwaters of an unnoticable galaxy? How about this, lets spend more time counting the grains of sand on the planet, because sand can cause desserts. ARGH!!!
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