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Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made
bledri writes "The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature are in and Richard Muller, the study's director (formerly an AGW skeptic) declares, 'Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.'
The study was funded by the Folger Fund, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (created by Bill Gates), the Bowes Foundation, the Koch Foundation, and the Getty Foundation."
putting them in camps if they persist.
And the forst Godwin goes to ....
Moron.
> convert all the skeptics in the scientific population by defunding their grants
Except that it's the Republicans that have been trying to de-fund climate research...
Nope, I'm sure they've set themselves to cash in using tricks like having the one who came up with credit default swaps write the rules for carbon trading so they can make a royal mint off cap and trade.
Make NO mistake folks, The Koch Bros, Goldman Sachs, they don't give a rat's ass about you, the environment, they don't give a shit about anything but having MOAR MONIES because to the ultra greedy like them there is no such thing as "enough" evar. They could build most devices to last a solid decade now, yet the majority of our items are designed for the dump, why? We could be building nuclear plants and molten salt solar to replace all those coal belching power plants but we're not, why? Because they haven't figured out how to make MOAR MONIES off of those, that's why.
Isn't it funny how those like Rev Al Gore never ever say a damned word about putting tarrifs on China or removing their most favored nation status even though we can now pick up the toxic clouds of pollution coming from China on our west coast? If they REALLY cared about the environment why wouldn't they be for tariffs instead of beating the 'free trade" drum?, Why? Because they make massive profits off the poisoning of China, duh!
If you truly wanted to end global warming here is how you would do it, massive taxes on any country that pollutes, replacing coal with nuclear and molten salt along with reprocessing of nuclear fuel and thorium small city powering reactors to lower losses along the lines, stop blowing money starting shit in the middle east and third world and use those funds for a massive upgrade of our infrastructure, with electric high speed trains between major cities and finally a "people's car" that runs on diesel or bio-diesel and gets a minimum of 50 MPG and costs less than $15k. Then add subsidies for the poor so those that can't afford $15k can get enough for their old gas guzzlers to replace them.
Tada! You've just made massive inroads on ending global warming! Congrats! But the big money interests couldn't gouge the living fuck out of everyone with a system like that, in fact prices would probably go down thanks to not constantly blowing fuel hauling everything everywhere, so that just won't happen. Instead we'll end up with something like "crap and trade" where people at the top will own a shell corp they buy "carbon credits" from so it costs them nothing while raping your wallet. The current scams those like Rev Al have set up is like you moving money from your left pocket to your right, calling it "wealth redistribution" and getting a tax break for doing so!
Never underestimate the parasites, they will always find a way to rip you off while enriching themselves. All TFA means is someone found a great scam which they can either fleece the government or you directly while making more profits than your average drug kingpin.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.