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Global Warming Debunked?
limbicsystem writes, "I'm a scientist. I like Al Gore. I donate to the Sierra club, I bicycle everywhere and I eat granola. And I just read a very convincing article in the UK Telegraph that makes me think that the 'scientific consensus' on global warming is more than a little shaky. Now IANACS (I am not a climate scientist). And the Telegraph is notoriously reactionary. Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong? Because it seems to be solid, well researched, and somewhat damning of a host of authorities (the UN, the editors of Nature, the Canadian Government) who seem to have picked a side in the global warming debate without looking at the evidence." The author of the Telegraph piece is Christopher Monckton, a retired journalist and former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
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"f the general consensus is that global warming is happening, you're much more likely to get funded if you decide to do research on "why global warming is going on" or "what are the major contributors to global warming" etc. However, if you were to submit a proposal along the lines of "what if any effect has global warming had on climate change", good luck."
Are you crazy? If you were to write a paper on debunking global warming the oil companies, the republican party, the right wing thinktanks, the liberterian thinktanks etc will throw buckets of money in your direction. If you write a book (never mind a peer reviewed research paper) you will instantly become a best seller because fox news will hype it up and the right wing organizations will buy millions to distribute to others.
There is a lot of money to be made by debunking global warming. The private sector has more money to throw around then the dept of education can even dream about. Besides the Bush govt is actively trying to suppress science on global warming so that funding has dried up anyway.
evil is as evil does
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