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Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed?
sycodon writes "Global Warming has become more than just a scientific issue and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some. However, despite all the hoopla from Hollywood, Politicians and Science Bureaucrats, there is another side, but it's being suppressed according to Richard Lindzen, an Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT. From the article: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.'"
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad that someone's life was that pathetic.
What planet did YOU come from? 95+% of the people who walk THIS planet are pathetic and lead pathetic lives. Slashdot readership is no exception. Whether they admit it or not, the average human finds great satisfaction in knowing others suffer more than they, and are very envious of anyone who is happier than they are. The only reason they 'act' anything resembling civilized is because someone is watching them.
Combine this natual tendency with the anonymity of mod points and I'm surprise there are not MORE mod stalkers.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
A lawyer who got worse grades at a worse school than the much-disdained W.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
> I find it fascinating that you conflate "pollute less" with "destroy Western Civilisation.
Have you looked into just what we would have to do here in the US to comply with Kyoto, being that we seem to be expected to account for most of the reduction in CO2 while 'the developing world' is permitted to merrily belch the stuff out? Yes, it would pretty much end our modern energy dependent civilization. Which just happens to be what the usual suspects have been arguing for in various guises since the 1960s at least. So many scares, every one fallen into history.
First we were going to all die from overpopulation. Then all of the developed world went into negative population growth and China took a hankering for infanticide. Oh well, try again.
Polution is going to kill us all, make the survivors into three headed freaks! Ok, there were some real dangers this time so we took steps. Now we have cleaner water than we have had in a century, more trees than when the first Europeans showed up, etc. But we didn't have to tear it all down and 'return to a more agrarian existance' as so many of the Gaian eco freaks were preaching.
Global cooling is coming! Run! Hide! The glaciers will be here any year now.... unless we act swiftly and decisively to dismantle all this industrial civilization. Oops, they ain't going for it, so how about GLOBAL WARMING!
Is Chicken Little right? As time has passed they have become so good at manipulating the media, the science establishment, etc. it is hard to say. Which is the whole point of the article, science has become so political it isn't useful anymore.
> Tell me, do you also conflate "pay workers enough to survive on" with "socialism?"
Only when a third party thinks they are all wise enough to make that decision for both parties. The invisible hand of the marketplace is the ONLY force with the knowledge to set prices. If the workers really can't survive on the wages offered they will move to a different line of work, migrate somewhere that is paying more or their lifestyle will adapt to the changed economic reality. There are NO other options.
Government intervention only creates the illusion of wealth for a privledged few in political favor, in reality it only moves it around while losing most of it as system losses. Yes you can mandate higher wages for Widgetco. Yes you can even forbid them from laying off workers to make up the gap and working the remaining few harder. Which makes the lives of those workers better than they were before. But at what cost? At a cost to the customers of Widgetco and the shareholders of Widgetco and longterm to the viability of Widgetco to compete in the marketplace. Unless you do the same to their competitors they will soon close up. Assuming you do you run the risk of their customers simply importing. And forget the investors sinking money into captical improvements. (See the US auto industry for all of these lessons played out in the real world.)
Democrat delenda est