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EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming
theodp writes "CNET reports that less than two weeks before the EPA formally submitted its pro-carbon dioxide regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty 'decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.' In an e-mail message (pdf) to a staff researcher on March 17, the EPA official wrote: 'The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.' The employee was also ordered not to 'have any direct communication' with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of climate change, and was informed his report would not be shared with the agency group working on the topic. In a statement, the EPA took aim at the credentials of the report's author, Alan Carlin (BS Physics-Caltech, PhD Econ-MIT), describing him as 'not a scientist.' BTW, the official who chastised Carlin also found himself caught up in a 2005 brouhaha over mercury emissions after top EPA officials ordered the findings of a Harvard University study stripped from public records."
Let the unraveling begin.
So having large asphalt parking lots, concrete sidewalks, large buildings, air conditioning units and the like being within feet of an instrument that measures temperature do not skew temperature readings being taken???
I know people who like to use the word 'denialist' are under the opinion that the world is composed of people who are extremely gullible, but we're not actually *that* fucking stupid.
Moving the stations that make climate measurements away from things that either generate heat (like an air conditioning system's heat exchanger) or even things that simply absorb and release heat (like buildings, sidewalks, or pavement) just makes sense.
I'm not sure why your limiting the poll of suspected to just environmentalist. They may be riding on the conspiracy too but it's not different then someone pretending to be religious just to meet trusting people and take advantage of them.
Anyways, the problem isn't really the environmentalist to begin with. All they did was cheer lead the expedition. The problem is that the entire concept of global warming was hijacked early on by political entities with the goals of gaining more power or control, collecting more taxes, and redistributing wealth. Blaming that crap on the environmentalist is like saying all hotel maids are thieves because they all clean you room and one maid took something of your one time while cleaning the room.
I would say a majority of environmentalist are completely oblivious to the realities we are facing and actually do believe the global warming crap. They are mostly cheerleaders, not crafters of the conspiracy. That would be politicians looking for control and power.
Here in Melbourne this last summer, we had our two hottest days on record, both at 46 degrees centigrade. Victoria also has not had seasonal rainfall now for 14 years.
Global warming is very real, and has been measured all over the planet; look up some of the studies that have been done on the polar ice caps.
The only people who want to believe that global warming isn't occurring are the capitalist fanatic, "making money is literally more important than being alive to spend it," crowd, who want an excuse to continue to rape the planet until it is no longer inhabitable at all. Such people do not care about the survival of anyone, including their own.
These people need to be silenced. We need to move past the debate stage, and into the stage where we start taking concrete action to rectify the problem...and at least halt it, even if it cannot be reversed. Something else that is appropriate to quote, here.
"Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught...
Only then, will you realise, that money cannot be eaten."
It sure as hell isn't science, well maybe it is and your science book is outdated.
First, the earth has not gotten warming in the last 11 years, since 2001, it has actually been cooling despite a rise in Co2 and other GHGs. Second, melting glaciers when the outside air is below freezing is not caused by global warming. We did have the sensors set up with the sea ice and after 11 months of claims of it disappearing, they finally had to track down the problem of drift which is a natural occurrence and make a statement about it that got just a few days coverage. Australia who is operating the other half of the antarctic claims that the glaciers there are growing and they don't understand the American side making all the claims about everything diapering.
And finally, there are more scientist disputing or questioning global warming or the hysteria and rush to tame it as it stands then there was in the consensus to begin with. There is 700 or more world wide speaking out against the doom and gloom. IF you have to make a claim that scientists got together and unified on something, then it's only fair to show the updated unification.
sign of religions has typically been the inability to let go of old values and knowledge and accept new ones as they present themselves to be more right. Maybe you should update your textbooks or risk being labeled as something that was obvious.