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Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies
Honken writes with a report from The Guardian that "'One of the world's most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal companies.' This somewhat contradicts that [Harvard researcher Willie] Soon in a 2003 US senate hearing said that he had 'not knowingly been hired by, nor employed by, nor received grants from any organisation that had taken advocacy positions with respect to the Kyoto protocol or the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.'"
Maybe you can help tell Gore to STFU.
I stopped listening to this totalitarian political hack back when he wanted to force us to let the government have the keys to all of our encryption. Al Gore was the administration's point man in the crypto wars of the 90s, and he wasn't on our side.
Probably the one positive thing about George W. Bush is that he prevented Al Gore from becoming President.
Why, there's loads of evidence. We had less snow than average last year, and this year we have mor than average. See, proof! We accurately predicted that the North Pole would be completely melted by Sep 2008! More proof!
We also got together all the important people in this area: cosmotoligists, phrenologists, nutritionalists, nuclear physysts, and trial lawyers. We explained that they woulod receive additional grants if they took our side, then we voted on it, and they voted for it!
So we gots lots of facts!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
How many continuing grants to you think they would get if they found that nothing was wrong? They're alarmist for the same reason that epidemic scaremongers in the public sector are always always sounding the tocsin--because there is money to be made in fear. You get a lot more funding saying "Russian flu/Swine Flu/Bird Flu/Ebola/etc. is coming to kill us all!!!!" than you do saying "This probably won't amount to anything."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Fucking idiot.
The minority opinion is very, very, rarely right. For every Einstein there are a million or so sad, pathetic pseudo-intellectuals posting on newsgroups and forums who believe they have 'disproved' relativity when even a moderately qualified physicist can show that they have just tragically misunderstood it.
Oh, and 'scientists' have never, ever claimed the Earth is flat. The knowledge and proof that the Earth is round is exceedingly old (the ancient Greeks not only know the Earth was roughly spherical, they also made some pretty accurate calculations of its size). This knowledge predates anything that could be realisitically described as 'science' in the modern sense.
Your abject ignorance of the history of discovery only serves to highlight the absolute stupidity of your argument.
Oh, and anticipating your future attempt to recover from the destruction of your pathetic argument, an insult is not the same as an ad hominem
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?