If I could receive the kind of money that Richard Lindzen gets from the Western Fuels Association, OPEC, and other organizations with a vested interest in oil consumption, I might be a global warming skeptic, too. I'm sure I could figure out some way of explaining the loss of glaciers in South America, Europe, North America and the Himalayas, the shrinking of the Arctic icecap, the Greenland ice fields, the collapse Antarctic ice shelves, the slowdown of Atlantic conveyor belt, the imminent disappearance under water of Pacific and Indian Ocean island groups, not to mention the wacky weather. I could discount the fact that ice cores indicate that the world hasn't experienced a warming trend like the present one in more than half a million years. I might have a little more trouble discounting a 2 million year time frame which will be available soon from more recent core sampling but with enough money, I'm sure I could figure out a way to set myself up in a the most comfortable place to settle myself and watch the consequences. If I smoked cigarettes the Mr. Lindzen does, I could count on not surviving long enough for it to be a problem anyway. I could get lots of good cigars fromt that other industry that has so proven itself to have our interests at heart.
What the heck, I'll do it..., Mobil Exxon? BP? Shell? Any takers? I'm available.
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If I could receive the kind of money that Richard Lindzen gets from the Western Fuels Association, OPEC, and other organizations with a vested interest in oil consumption, I might be a global warming skeptic, too. I'm sure I could figure out some way of explaining the loss of glaciers in South America, Europe, North America and the Himalayas, the shrinking of the Arctic icecap, the Greenland ice fields, the collapse Antarctic ice shelves, the slowdown of Atlantic conveyor belt, the imminent disappearance under water of Pacific and Indian Ocean island groups, not to mention the wacky weather. I could discount the fact that ice cores indicate that the world hasn't experienced a warming trend like the present one in more than half a million years. I might have a little more trouble discounting a 2 million year time frame which will be available soon from more recent core sampling but with enough money, I'm sure I could figure out a way to set myself up in a the most comfortable place to settle myself and watch the consequences. If I smoked cigarettes the Mr. Lindzen does, I could count on not surviving long enough for it to be a problem anyway. I could get lots of good cigars fromt that other industry that has so proven itself to have our interests at heart. What the heck, I'll do it..., Mobil Exxon? BP? Shell? Any takers? I'm available.