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Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout
An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of the recent release of thousands of private files and emails after a server of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia was hacked, Prof. Phil Jones is stepping down as head of the CRU. Prof. Michael Mann, another prominent climate scientist, is also under inquiry by Penn State University."
Too fucking right! Those big money scientists are faking the whole global warming thing so they can rake in the big bucks. I'm on to their game. Where did the glaciers go? Hmm, maybe you should ask the scientists! They were the last ones seen with them. Bet they've got 'em hidden somewhere just waiting to cash in, same place they put the ice caps.
Besides, even if the climate is changing, it's changed in the past! We had the little ice age, little richard, little italy, and we're doing fine now. If it's a natural change, why should it bother us? The saharah used to be grassland and now it's a desert. That's not hurting America none and it was long before we started burning fossil fuels. If global warming is happening and it isn't man-made, then there's absolutely no reason to do anything about it or even study it. And I still maintain that it's a plot by big science to fleece hard-working, god-fearing, reality-tv-watching American men and women.
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That's why we need to act NOW to return the glaciers to the same state they were in 30,000 years ago.
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Impropriety.
Beach Party?
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Funny how the ones who bemoan the science behind global warming are most likely the ones who believe in creation "science". Does God not believe that the earth is warming up?
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
IIRC.
You, sir, are old!
Finally I can stop putting up the pretense like I care and quit bothering with all this reducing, reusing, recycling nonsense!!
As IF we'd ever be able to pollute the planet in any significant way or run out of resources.
Scientist jerks like these really get my goatse.
Here's how to check if you're a real scientist.
The "NOW" has to be pictured with a multi-colored fist raised in anger against the oppressors.
While at it, the humanity also ought to rise against the evil Big Business (as opposite to the beloved "Mom and Pop" shops suffering from Wal-Mart), who contribute to the Continental Drift. Because every time a plane takes off on one continent and lands on another, the continents are pulled farther and farther away from the positions they were in before humanity appeared.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Old? Bah! 30,000 years ago, I was telling glaciers to get off my lawn.
Ahh yes, thanks, I missed one activity in my list: deniers who devote increasing amounts of unpaid time moderating internet posts as offtopic.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
And there was a giant lake in Missoula Missouri, which periodically broke-through the glacier/ice dam and flooded Washington State (hence the weirdly-carved landscape).
And you, my friend, need to look at a map. Under no circumstances could a lake in Missouri flood the state of Washington. The Rocky Mountains would preclude that.
By the way, Missoula is in Montana.. Nice place, been there a number of times.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Besides. There was a time a few thousand years ago where the entire world was 100% flooded in a matter of days and stayed that way for 40 days and 40 nights. All life on this planet was rebuilt from a single ship. Let's face it, we are invincible. We can rebreed this entire planet if we have to, we did it before.
Obviously there is plenty of monetary motivation to deny AGW, but what is the motivation to fabricate it? I just don't see it. At best you could say that these scientists were duped into believing that AGW was real and, now that they know the "truth," are trying to hide that they were wrong, but this is far from compelling considering the sheer number of scientists involved all trying to dupe each other.
What am I missing?
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
He was a beta tester for dirt.
They never did get all the bugs out.
Free Martian Whores!
Sorry, but you are all wrong. The Earth is only 6,010 years old and the fact that dinosaurs lived with people is PROOF that there was simply no ice age or anything like it.
Bah. We can control that with central government planning. All we need to do is alternate the direction in which planes take off and land. Of course, since some planes push with more thrust than others, it will get slightly out of balance, so we'll have a leap plane every googol takeoffs or so to compensate.
Note: I just noticed Firefox's built in spell checker considers googol a spelling error, but accepts Google (but only with the capital G). Coincidence? Or Evil World Domination Conspiracy (TM)?
I've heard of dirt. Isn't that one of those grassroots projects?
I also heard it wasn't very secure, had to be root to do anything...
But I guess the effort paid off, since a lot of recent projects have grown out of it.
:P
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